Sowed, what seems late - what seems ok?

[Baldy]

Its been a funny start to the year - I've ended up with quite a lot of stuff that is way behind what I'd expect for this time of year and a few crops that haven't even made it out of the module tray alive. I usually try to grow most everything from seed but this year I've bought PSB and cabbage from the garden centre and will probably buy cucumber there as well. Luckily I did some experimental overwintering of Bedford Champ onion and Bulgarian giant leek - just as well as my aliums haven't been up to much from sown this year.

Second sowing of sweetcorn have caught up..
Chillies - slow
Toms - slow
Cucumbers - terminal
French beans - terminal
Runners - slow
Melons - very difficult to tell as they have a mind of their own
Aubergines - terminal - now struck from my grow list forever...

What you finding good / bad ??

[treepixie]

Spinach and leafbeet won't germinate, on my 3rd sowing with different seed.

Runners where very slow and so is the parsley, also carrots seemed to take ages to come up.

[Mrs Bee]

We are all behind with the donkey's tail this year.

We spent the equivalent of 5 weeks back and forth to the hospital with my father, so the lotty and garden were all in a mess.

All my seed sowing has been very late, but all has germinated and we have yet to see if we get a crop of anything except soft fruit and broad beans.

The seed germination has all been good but I start most of my seeds in a heated propagator.

Beans and peas I start off in a bag of compost and then transplant the germinated seeds into small paper pots before planting in the open ground.

[Potstubsdustbins]

The one thing that has been a real problem is LR lettuce, out of many, many sowings I have just two plants, it's that bad I have ordered new seed today.

There have been other problems as there always is but lettuce takes the prize this year.

[vixylix]

Mines been beans this year... goodness knows how many borlotti, runners and broad beans sown - and 1 borlotti and 2 broad beans to show for it!!

Everything else is doing ok - tomatoes are well ahead of last year but I started them in Jan!

[muddled]

I had dodgy compost this year. Bought it new and every thing I sowed in it died.

shallots and parsnips were both failures, got a grand total of six stunted sweetcorn plants, no aubs and had to rescue the toms by washing the compost off and replanting...less than a dozen survived.

So everything here is late or dead except for carrots (sown in last years compost) cape gooseberries and garlic (overwintered) cos lettuces (doing really well for the first time ever thanks to that 'fridge' tip) and potatoes (went straight in the ground)

[Containergardener]

Everything ok , but like Vix 1 borlotti. I did 4 pinto beans as an experiment (for brother) and all are romping(no idea what I'm doing with them, not sure how big they go, if be ok outside or grow in living rm ) kale romping.
I still havnt everything in. Salads are bolting . Sp onions have slowed.

[Containergardener]

I used a diff seed compost , never use it again too heavy.

[Nicos]

The radish are going bonkers!...I sowed some of them very thickly as they were use by 2013...I think every single one has germinated!

Broad beans...absolutely rubbish.
I think we have a couple which grew from a whole packet!
They were soaked for several days and the root was emerging from all the beans....so no idea what happened.
No sign of voles or anything.

[SaraJH]

I'm late with everything apart from salad leaves and radish. My radishes are mutating into footballs....

Radish salad for lunch tomorrow.

Peas, beans etc all still very young but I'm sure they will catch up.

[TattyJJ]

My first year growing anything, been a bit hit and miss.
Gardeners delight all doing well and showing flowers now. Sowed 3 other types tomatoes, germination was very sporadic! Only about 50%, with weeks between the seedlings coming up! Sweet peppers were the same.
Cucumbers are going like the clappers, basil started well then died for the fun of it, whole pack of parcley and not one came up!
Garlic didn't do anything. Broccoli also started well but seems to have stalled.

I was a bit late with almost everything though.

[cilla]

I have been late with everything this year. Didn't know if I would get back into gardening, so when I was able to, I started seeds in April and then went over to NZ. Unfortunately on my return mid May some plants died. So redid cucumber and others of which I put out yesterday. But I think I am not too late as I hear the season is late and slow. Broccoli not done well. Still waiting on some seeds to grow. Fingers crossed.

[Cadalot]

Everything is running late, apart from the spuds. Second sowing of spring onions is better than first, but still blades of grass, taken to giving them a comfrey infusion to boost them up a bit. beetroots are really slow. Hoping cucumbers will romp up the new climbing frame I have made them. and I still have three beds with nothing in which I have never had this time of year before.

Thinking empty beds may just get green manure this year.

[Lumpy]

My toms all dead except 3 plants so the hanging basket ones are from the GC
Aubergines didn't make it out of the living room.
Chilli and sweet peppers are OK and in flower but me doing the oakey cokey with them in and out of the shed is not helping.
Mixed leaves bolted almost the same day they come up.
Mini cabbages suffered dog destruction - I threw Fee's ball and instead of going straight it went limply onto the raised bed. The dog marmalised the bed trying to get the ball.

On the good side -

Tatties are going great guns (except for my 1 saggy)
Sugar snaps have flowers all over the place
Strawbs are now edible
Broad beans (the dwarf ones Robin Hood) have all become adult plants

oh and the parsnips are really stomping along.

This year will be the same as all my others - some I win and some I lose. I don't really care as I just like to see if me and nature can come to an understanding!

[Snoop Puss]

I'm running behind with everything too. Haven't even sown my squash yet.

It was very cold here at night till mid-May, so hardly anything could go out into the ground. Everything is at least a month behind where it should be.

And because we've had virtually no rain since last autumn (a few total downpours but probably only 10 cm of rain in total in the last eight months), I've been spending all my time watering. Temps currently mid-30s during the daytime, around 12-14 ºC at night.

Tatties look good, as do some of my cabbages and lettuce. Toms are now about 30 cm tall but looking healthy. Aubergines and peppers looking healthy but only about 25 cm tall. Chillies - pah!

I've got my winter cabbages and sprouts and autumn broccoli in modules ready to go out. But I'll be buying in all the caulis.

Edited to add: there will be no parsnips whatsoever this year.

It is what it is.