Tales of woe - 2016

[HoneyChild]

All the leaves on the redcurrant and gooseberry bushes have been eaten by green caterpillars.

The flowers on the runner bean plants have fallen off and no beans have formed at all. They said on the Beachgrove Garden that their's aren't doing very well this year, so it might just be the weather.

Flowers keep falling off my chilli plants and no fruit have set at all. I try to spray the greenfly with homemade spray but it's not quite enough to defeat them.

Aubergine flowers aren't setting either.

Cucumber plant has quite a few small fruit but they simply aren't growing.

[Penellype]

Blackleg on one of the Sarpo Mira potatoes.

[Ryez]

My tomatoes are seriously behind, still green.
The lettuce bed has stayed empty for most of the summer because of greedy slugs, which they also, somehow, got on the second shelve of the greenhouse and ate my chrysanthemum seedlings!

[Marb67]

*&%$£+?@~!!!!! cabbage root fly taken out one of my Nero kale's in my square foot garden. The one next to it ok so destroyed infected and lifted the other and re-planted in next square much deeper with a new collar. No room to grow elsewhere so had to move it in next square (I suppose the final blow to my morale will come when someone here will tell me they will move across and find it under the soil)

And the annoying thing is I took precautions gave it a nice cardboard collar but the *&%$£+?@~!!!!! snails and slugs ate it and I hadn't spotted it in time. I thought it was past the time for cabbage maggot fly gits.

Underneath my enviromesh bed there are caterpillars so how did they get in ? As well as flea beetle damage to chard and beet leaves.

I just feel like absolutely giving up because (weather aside) there are just so many horrible pests wanting to destroy your hard work and how on earth am I going to get rid of *&%$£+?@~!!!!! flea beetle ? Impossible. The italian kale are my best growing success this season until now.

And to cap it all there is no way I can get on our village allotment for about 18 years.:

[vixylix]

aaw marb dont give up... its been a rubbish year, there's 18 pages of this thread to prove it! We need a cold hard winter and we can all start afresh next year (hopefully with a decent summer!!)

[Bigmallly]

If I was you Marb, I'd put mi name down on't Lottie list & hibernate for 18 years....................

[Guest]

Dastardly blight has got all my Dads toms inside and out

[Scoot]

My leeks are still utterly crap. They just havnt grown at all. Skinny little things still.

[Baldy]

Not been a great year on the plot generally speaking. Feeling of schadenfreude on this thread keeps me going.
Thanks all...

[Marb67]

Crap peas. In containers and raised bed. Sparrows, baby snails have resulted in poor growth. Pulled them all up today and they look like this. Too late to sow any more ?


Cucamelons not flowering
Runner Beans have some yellowing, sickly underdeveloped pods. Some have fallen off.
French beans not flowering at all.

[Bigmallly]

Crap peas. In containers and raised bed. Sparrows, baby snails have resulted in poor growth. Pulled them all up today and they look like this. Too late to sow any more ?
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Cucamelons not flowering
Runner Beans have some yellowing, sickly underdeveloped pods. Some have fallen off.
French beans not flowering at all.

I blame the SFG Marb.

[Containergardener]

Slugs ...massive slugs... Just picked about 15 off decking and 2 huge snails, one slug I had to go get OH , it must've been 10cm+ and half inch wide
What's with them this yr .

[Scoot]

I have/had some lovely spring onions growing in an old container round the side of the house. They were doing great until I noticed the other day that my dog had decided to sit on them. They're now all totally flat but I'm hoping some of them are still ok to use.

[Bren In Pots]

Adding to my list the mooli I was looking forward to has bolted

[BUFFS]

I tried to pull some carrots this morning, sown in march/april, loads of strong top growth but only pencil thick carrots below, a waste of 2 raised beds for a season..