What Is Your GYO Downfall?

[Bigmallly]

Brilliant replies................so this year we are all gonna have a fantastic growing season............Yes?

[burnie]

Seems last year was a warmer year due to the Elnenio(sp) effect and this year will be cooler. So I think my greenhouse might do well and the raised beds not far behind, but fantastic might be stretching it a bit lol

[TrysHard]

Successional sowing and weeding

I always have good intentions then fail.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Of late! Not having the time to persecute the idea's I have.

A time management thing I need to get a grip on!

Carrot's! Carrot's! Cheers Nicos!

I will grow a good size carrot this year, I promise!

[WPG]

My biggest vice is leaving it too late to stake plants - both flowers and veg. I seem to have a mental block about it, every year I forget until I've already lost some plants to the wind.

I'll probably do the same thing this year no doubt.

[Penellype]

My big problem is an inability to throw away an old plant that might still produce something. I cut off a lettuce and leave it under the lights for a couple of days, then see it starting to regrow and leave it there in case it produces something edible. I buy new strawberry plants because I know you are supposed to throw away the old ones when they get to 3 years old. So I now have some that are 6 years old and yesterday I trimmed off the dead leaves and thought they looked ok so I would give them 1 more year... Then I struggle to find space for the new ones I bought

I do the same with flowers, and then when I do finally get rid of the winter bedding its far too late to plant the summer stuff or everywhere has sold out

My windowsills currently contain 6 tomato plants of which 3 are cut off and clearly dead and 3 have straggly growth with mini green tomatoes on them. Experience tells me that these tomatoes are extremely unlikely to produce anything much worth eating, but I leave them anyway, just in case. There are also 3 pepper plants one of which still has a small orange pepper on, the other 2 have been cut down. I know I will need the space for new plants next year, but...

[chasingmytail]

Like many I grew everything that sprouted, not staggering over weeks/months (all at once), weeding (special membrane this year), not enough feeding.

I do label in groups but I do draw up plans which works well. I use sticks to mark boundaries.

[Baldy]

Can't grow rhubarb. That takes some skill...

Would only be beaten by an inability to grow mint.

Oh!

[GardenGayle]

Mine seem similar to everyone else. planting things in a mass seed sow rather than sowing things in batches, not enough weeding, not enough feeding, spacing things too close. A complete inability to throw away a healthy plant even if I have nowhere for it, buying plants with no actual plan for them.
Sowing way more varieties than I have room for is something I do every year which may tie into spacing everything too close.
Im bad for not pruning fruit bushes either.
Looking at this Im amazed I grow anything!

[oakridge]

Mine is an inability to get direct sown veg. to germinate, especially roots.

[forgetmenot]

Continually buying seeds and then being disappointed when I can't find room to fit them in.

Or being too eager to direct sow, this year must ensure the ground is properly warmed up before I sow carrots!

[mrsbusy]

Eyes bigger than my plot! And unable to get lettuce seeds to germinate grrrrr!

[Greenleaves]

The simple inability to grow radishes

[Cadalot]

last year it as lettuce seeds they just didn't germinate and my sprout seedling snuffed it and I had to buy plants!!! And what rubbish results they gave me, sowing twice as many sprouts this year 2 weeks apart so I have spares.

[mothhawk]

Mine seem similar to everyone else. planting things in a mass seed sow rather than sowing things in batches, not enough weeding, not enough feeding, spacing things too close. A complete inability to throw away a healthy plant even if I have nowhere for it, buying plants with no actual plan for them.
Sowing way more varieties than I have room for is something I do every year which may tie into spacing everything too close.
Im bad for not pruning fruit bushes either.
Looking at this Im amazed I grow anything!

GG, I think you're me!