Tell us your successes!

[Bigmallly]

Hopeful successes: sweet potatoes, melons (won't be ready until later in the year)

When they have done OWG, you'll have to give us an SP on your SP's so that I know what I am up against next year..........

[Bren In Pots]

A slap on the wrist for you Bren - we don't want any talk about failures here!

Andy

Whoops but in my defence I did mention the tiny inch long courgette.

anyway I forgot about my strawberries we did intend to make jam but instead we ate them every day with ice-cream

[kentishgal]

Spinach was a success and the kale could probably feed a family of 4 all winter NM just me!! Also chuffed to be on my second cucumber as I really didnt think Id be able to grow them well in my little blowaway. Loved the strawberries and raspberries too.

[marchogaeth]

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1030576

Most especially the dwarf French beans. I wish I'd weighed just how many I've had.

[BUFFS]

our best success has to be raspberries,still getting a large yoghurt tubful daily,then ,of all things,...peaches from the g/house,now finished,we had 13,but one dropped onto the floor,so only 12,but a great taste,goosegogs are in the freezer,as are over 30 icecream tubs of rhubarb, two sacks of tatties from 9 x 1/2 dustbins...so all in all not bad for such a c..p weathered year,and the alpine strawbs still going strong since start of july.. and i nearly forgot the peppers and chillis,they are about 5/6 weeks late,but now going a bomb,19 fruiting plants,wont make the same mistake as we did 3 years ago,i WILL wear gloves when sorting them out for blanching,when i forgot,my hands were burning for 3 days,and you dare touch nothing,know what im saying john?..........

[Rhona]

Good year for soft fruit - we've had 5 or 6 bucketfuls of blackcurrants. Now things have picked up, the squash/pumpkin patch has really sprung into life. Potatoes have done better than I expected, though main crop suffered blight this week. Hoping tubers are okay to store. Aubergines doing well, better than peppers and chillies. Autumn-sown onions good (but bolted); spring sown ones poor. Garlic laughable. Leeks just plain weird.

[Niall]

Marrows - Giant ones got very giant and won first place in local show.
Beans - Literally hundreds harvested so far, with plenty more to come - having to give them away to family and friends there are so many.
Strawberries - Lots of plants seem to be cropping twice and lots have flowers on after having produced fruit a few months ago.
Leeks - my first year doing them and they are looking good so far!
Courgettes - also my first year, planted 6 seeds and all plants have produced 2-4 Courgettes each all of which have been fine.
Sweetcorn - very good, tall and big cobs so far!
Potatoes - they have been loving the extra water!

[PMW]

Grown a lot of things for the first time this year and been quite impressed with most of the results. I am also growing a few things I have grown before, like tomatoes, but as this is meant to be all about positivity and success I won't mention them!

Sowed mizuna & mibuna end of Feb - very tasty and harvested through April & May. Will definately grow again. Kale & leeks seem to be doing very well and I've already harvested quite a bit of Kale even though it was intended for Autumn/Winter.

Biggest success has got to be the runner beans though. Been picking them virtually every day since last week of July and still really enjoying them at them moment. I didn't realise quite how productive 10 plants was going to be.

[Neil Spencer]

Great thread. Post very little due to work, but thought I would make the effort. In my 3rd year and still learning.

1st, 2nd and main crop pots all done fantastically well. Every single plant has produced 3 meals for us (1 wife and 2 young hungry daughters)
Runner beans have been cropping half a carrier bag every 3 days for almost 4 weeks.
All 7 courgette plants (3 yellow and 4 green) have kept my neighbours and us in produce since end of June. Stupidly productive.
Red and green cabbages looking good.
Sweet peas have gone crazy
Gherkins and cucumbers pretty good.
Chillis and toms are absolutely phenomenal in the GH

On the whole, my best year so far.

[dominic10]

Harvesting/harvested potatoes, carrots, onions, runner beans, mange tout (never grown before and doing well), courgettes, spinach, chard, lettuce and tomatoes. On the go cabbages x 9 (never grown before so chuffed) PSB, kale and two other types of beans and several squash plants. Have cucumbers about an inch long and 11 surviving parsnips. We moved several autumn bliss plants at the wrong time in April but they have all taken and are fruiting already with lots of flowers. Had lots of rhubarb from my old plot and also blackcurrants. Moved 3 crowns of rhubarb from my old plot and all have have taken on the new plot also (fingers crossed). Lots of tayberries from the surviving plants on my new plot. Bought a diary for 2013 today for recording everything next year.

[OverWyreGrower]

When they have done OWG, you'll have to give us an SP on your SP's so that I know what I am up against next year..........

Well, I can tell you that they have masses of foliage, and grow like bindweed (and look like blummin' bindweed too!).... I fancy having a furtle over the weekend, so will let you know!

[Bigmallly]

Well, I can tell you that they have masses of foliage, and grow like bindweed (and look like blummin' bindweed too!).... I fancy having a furtle over the weekend, so will let you know!

That's no surprise really as SP's are a member of the Morning Glory family which looks very much like bindweed. Looking forward to hearing your results.

[redser]

Pretty pleased with what I've got in my first year on the plot but the standout for me is the cucumbers. Between 2 plants I cant keep up with them. They're a mini type called superbell. Got the first one in late May and now they are snaking all over the tunnel. Everyone comments on the fact that they taste so ... cucumbery!!! Had a salad on holidays with cucumber in it and just pushed it to the side, floppy tastless slivers of green. Growing your own makes you so snobby

[Kestrel]

Ac-cen-tu-ate the positive.
E-lim-i-nate the negative.

Green leafy stuff has done really well and seems to have grown faster than the molluscs can devour them. Broad beans and peas have been good. Onions and garlic have been huge and bolt free. Tomatoes are a bit late but producing well outside as well as in.

All in all, a decent year. There's always something that likes the weather whatever it is.

[scarey55]

I have one melon (small, but perfectly formed) of which I am very proud.
Broad beans were brilliant this year - managed 4 meals out of a very few plants.
Garlic had been mahoosive, don't know what I did but I hope I manage to do it by accident again next year
A goodly amount of fairly big onions - a couple of bolted ones but the flowers are pretty
and ... enough parsnip seeds to furnish the entire world !