| How does your garden grow? 09:38 - Aug 8 with 933 views | NthQldITFC |
Having a very disappointing garden produce season this year, partly to do with my lack of attention due to other things.
Tomatoes - 3/10 - some stunted plants with fewer fruit set
Cucumbers - 1/10 - plants indoors and out die off after producing a few fruit - I've had this for a couple of years despite changing soil, everyone else I know has had similar cucumber problems this year
Beans - 1/10 - started them too late but even so they've done buggar all
Beetroot - 8/10 - solid as ever
Salads - 7/10 - doing best where largely unattended which says a lot about my skills probably
Herbs - 8/10 reliable as ever, coriander astounding. |  |
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| I’ve got a really healthy…. on 09:47 - Aug 8 with 890 views | Bloots |
….chilli crop this year but it’s taken a lot of attention to get them where they are now.
My herbs were really disappointing though, withered and feeble.
I did pull my spuds last week, they were pretty good although a few were a bit “scorched”.
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| How does your garden grow? on 11:20 - Aug 8 with 802 views | Meadowlark |
Broad beans were excellent a few weeks back. Runners coming on now, but not in huge quantities. Pears, plums, apples, gages and grapes all very good. |  | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 11:39 - Aug 8 with 765 views | Ryorry |
Tomatoes both in greenhouse and outside have grown & fruited well, but fruit's just not ripening, still green.
Cucs outside gh have for first time ever done better than those inside.
Plugs sold to me as Bell Peppers have done v. well in gh, big & prolific - but turned out to be chillis! which I can't eat (gut). Neighbour loves em tho.
Sprouts, & even nasturtium companions, have been completely stripped of all foliage (by cabbage white butterflies I assume, which have been mega-prolific this year). Only the skeleton stalks remain!
Runners are cropping poorly so far, & the cane frame has been pushed by storm wotsit into looking like the Leaning Tower of Ripon.
Peas have done exceptionally well, great crop from only a few plants.
Courgettes went from titchies to giants in about 4 days when we had heavy rain about 3 weeks ago, and are now marrows which are too heavy to carry, need wheelbarrowing to kitchen!
Lettuces & Celtuces - reasonably good.
Spinach - reasonably good, but much munched by slugs
Leeks - grown exceptionally well this year
Spring Onions - reasonably good
Asparagus - late but average
Globe Artichokes - poor this year, only half the usual number of fruit
Jerusalem Artichokes - vigorous as ever, harvesting is at least a month away.
Spuds still flowering, harvesting in maybe 2 weeks
Herbs slow growing except for curry plant!
Strawberries - incredibly disappointing, had about 10 strawbs from 10 (new) plants.
Figs - poorest year ever. Only about 3 on the outdoor tree, plenty in the gh tub one but they’re all titchy.
Hazelnuts & wild cherries - bumper crops, never seen anything like it, some branches so laden they were almost on the ground - but all blew off prematurely in last week's storm 
Everything late this year owing to my delaying sowing & planting due to drought in spring. [Post edited 8 Aug 12:27]
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| I’ve got a really healthy…. on 11:44 - Aug 8 with 748 views | TheBlueGnu |
| I’ve got a really healthy…. on 09:47 - Aug 8 by Bloots |
….chilli crop this year but it’s taken a lot of attention to get them where they are now.
My herbs were really disappointing though, withered and feeble.
I did pull my spuds last week, they were pretty good although a few were a bit “scorched”.
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"I did pull my spuds last week" - fnaar, fnaar ! |  |
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| I’ve got a really healthy…. on 11:46 - Aug 8 with 743 views | Ryorry |
| I’ve got a really healthy…. on 11:44 - Aug 8 by TheBlueGnu |
"I did pull my spuds last week" - fnaar, fnaar ! |
Isn't it more traditional to pull your leeks? 🤔 | |
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| How does your garden grow? on 11:46 - Aug 8 with 743 views | andytown |
Disappointing for me as well.
Onions, garlic & spuds all smaller than usual
Beetroot seedlings eaten by birds (never happened before)
Gooseberries eaten by deer or birds, again never happened before
Entire sweetcorn crop eaten by badgers
Only squash/pumpkins doing well this year | | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 11:50 - Aug 8 with 733 views | CoachRob |
Cherry Tomatoes are turning red now and getting quite a good crop.
Courgettes have been hit and miss, not as good as last year.
Herbs still going strong.
Rhubarb has been disappointing. Little spindly stalks, fed and watered it well, crown not that old. I dunno. |  | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 12:10 - Aug 8 with 694 views | wischip |
Grapes, never had so many as this year. I have to pick all the fallen up quickly before the birds get them and do purple poos on the car. |  | | |
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| How does your garden grow? on 12:23 - Aug 8 with 680 views | WinchBlue |
Figs - loads(best year by far)
Tayberries - loads
Gooseberries - stacks
Damsons - overladen
Courgettes - disappointing
Lettuce - plenty
Perp spinach- plenty
Spuds - v good
Tomatoes (polytunnel) - beefsteak & cherry are good, plum are poor
Cucumbers(polytunnel)- disappointing
Beans (purple/trail of tears/runners) - all good
Sea kale - pretty good
Peppers(polytunnel) - ok
Strawbs/rasps - both disappointing
Pumpkins - coming on nicely |  | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 12:25 - Aug 8 with 666 views | WinchBlue |
| How does your garden grow? on 11:46 - Aug 8 by andytown |
Disappointing for me as well.
Onions, garlic & spuds all smaller than usual
Beetroot seedlings eaten by birds (never happened before)
Gooseberries eaten by deer or birds, again never happened before
Entire sweetcorn crop eaten by badgers
Only squash/pumpkins doing well this year |
I netted me gooseberries this year & got loads | | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 13:10 - Aug 8 with 620 views | andytown |
| How does your garden grow? on 12:25 - Aug 8 by WinchBlue |
I netted me gooseberries this year & got loads |
Yep, will be netting em next year, never had to before though. | | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 13:16 - Aug 8 with 607 views | IndependentlyBlue |
Odd year for me on the allotment, what with the strange weather and whatnot.
Broad beans - exceptional year
French beans - meh
Beetroot - good crop
Cavalo Nero - very good
Lettuces - disastrous
Carrots (usually my downfall) - wonderful crop
Tomatoes in greenhouse - some problems with blossom end, not ripening as well as normal but ok in general
Tomatoes outside - low yield and not ripening well
Asparagus - best year ever, very early and bl**dy lovely
Globe artichoke - grow for the bees really but a good year
Jerusalem artichokes- looking good but seem late in flowering
Calabrese and sporting broccoli - coming along nicely
Strawberries- so disappointing
Raspberries - exceptional though not had many myself as my grand-daughter discovered she liked them a lot
Parsnips - low yield
Potatoes - Earlies (Jazzy) we’re good yield but not very good when cooked, real disappointment
Potatoes - Main Crop (Maris Piper) - low yield and only middling in size
Potatoes - Main Crop (Java) - first year growing these. Exceptional, good size, good yield. Lovely spuds
Courgettes - disastrous, though think l planted them too close together
Butternut Squash - looking good
Spaghetti Squash - low yield but hoping they pump up more before autumn
Onions/Garlic - good year
Rhubarb - if anyone wants any please come and take it. Got so much
Herbs - Sage, Chives, Mint, Lemon Balm all prolific
Edit - that would be Sprouting broccol [Post edited 8 Aug 13:23]
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| How does your garden grow? on 13:20 - Aug 8 with 598 views | NthQldITFC |
| How does your garden grow? on 11:20 - Aug 8 by Meadowlark |
Broad beans were excellent a few weeks back. Runners coming on now, but not in huge quantities. Pears, plums, apples, gages and grapes all very good. |
Ah yes, I meant to say that my plums are extraordinary this year.
(Apples too, but I don't enjoy saying that so much.) | |
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| How does your garden grow? on 13:21 - Aug 8 with 594 views | NthQldITFC |
| How does your garden grow? on 11:39 - Aug 8 by Ryorry |
Tomatoes both in greenhouse and outside have grown & fruited well, but fruit's just not ripening, still green.
Cucs outside gh have for first time ever done better than those inside.
Plugs sold to me as Bell Peppers have done v. well in gh, big & prolific - but turned out to be chillis! which I can't eat (gut). Neighbour loves em tho.
Sprouts, & even nasturtium companions, have been completely stripped of all foliage (by cabbage white butterflies I assume, which have been mega-prolific this year). Only the skeleton stalks remain!
Runners are cropping poorly so far, & the cane frame has been pushed by storm wotsit into looking like the Leaning Tower of Ripon.
Peas have done exceptionally well, great crop from only a few plants.
Courgettes went from titchies to giants in about 4 days when we had heavy rain about 3 weeks ago, and are now marrows which are too heavy to carry, need wheelbarrowing to kitchen!
Lettuces & Celtuces - reasonably good.
Spinach - reasonably good, but much munched by slugs
Leeks - grown exceptionally well this year
Spring Onions - reasonably good
Asparagus - late but average
Globe Artichokes - poor this year, only half the usual number of fruit
Jerusalem Artichokes - vigorous as ever, harvesting is at least a month away.
Spuds still flowering, harvesting in maybe 2 weeks
Herbs slow growing except for curry plant!
Strawberries - incredibly disappointing, had about 10 strawbs from 10 (new) plants.
Figs - poorest year ever. Only about 3 on the outdoor tree, plenty in the gh tub one but they’re all titchy.
Hazelnuts & wild cherries - bumper crops, never seen anything like it, some branches so laden they were almost on the ground - but all blew off prematurely in last week's storm
Everything late this year owing to my delaying sowing & planting due to drought in spring. [Post edited 8 Aug 12:27]
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A splendid list.  You're "oop North", aren't you? I'm thinking of migrating away from South Suffolk before desertification sets in. [Post edited 8 Aug 13:23]
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| How does your garden grow? on 13:44 - Aug 8 with 550 views | Churchman |
Tomatoes 4/10 taking time to ripen, not going to be great
Cucumbers 10/10. Dozens of the things
Courgettes 8/10. Not as many as usual but more than we need
Chillies 7/10. Mixed. Three plants producing loads, two plants not a lot
French beans 7/10. Two deaths, two plants producing, one plant producing loads
Mange tout 0/10 died
Potatoes - tba
Herbs 8/10 like a lot of our stuff, pot grown 7/10, all pretty good.
Lettuce 9/10
The water butts have been good for servicing the above’s needs with water bills going through the roof (foreign shareholders must have their profits!), but some rearrangements and fettling will be required in the autumn. |  | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 16:20 - Aug 8 with 415 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
It’s been an unmitigated disaster, which considering I’m a gardener by trade, doesn’t say a lot about my horticultural skills 😊.
Tomatoes 7/10.
Potatoes 1/10.
B-road beans 2/10.
Carrots 0/10.
Beetroot 4/10.
Courgette 0/10.
Strawberries 6/10.
Parsnip 0/10.
Runner beans 3/10.
Onions 3/10.
I’m digging the veg patch out in the winter and creating a moderate sized wildlife pond 👍 |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| How does your garden grow? on 13:18 - Aug 10 with 215 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| How does your garden grow? on 11:46 - Aug 8 by andytown |
Disappointing for me as well.
Onions, garlic & spuds all smaller than usual
Beetroot seedlings eaten by birds (never happened before)
Gooseberries eaten by deer or birds, again never happened before
Entire sweetcorn crop eaten by badgers
Only squash/pumpkins doing well this year |
"Entire sweetcorn crop eaten by badger"
Whilst it might give us an insight into what he does when not on shift, this has to be worthy of a stern warning from Phil, surely? |  |
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| How does your garden grow? on 14:46 - Aug 10 with 180 views | mellowblue |
tree fruits have been excellent, best for a long time. | | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 14:56 - Aug 10 with 167 views | reusersfreekicks |
Worst year yet for snail damage
Cucumber and Cougette plants strangled at birth despite use ofwool pellets
Radishes partly taken too
Lettuce weirdly escaped and decent
Tomatoes of
Dwarf beans - zilch- assume was duff pack
Spring onions okay second attempt with wool pellet protection
Bay plant going well
Ditto chives tarragon thyme and parsley
Beetroot decent
Sunflowers - seen snails about 3 foot up the stalks so leaves ravaged
Imo only sure fire snail and slug repellant are the pretty toxic ones. All the others are only partly successful |  | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 15:16 - Aug 10 with 132 views | Ryorry |
| How does your garden grow? on 14:56 - Aug 10 by reusersfreekicks |
Worst year yet for snail damage
Cucumber and Cougette plants strangled at birth despite use ofwool pellets
Radishes partly taken too
Lettuce weirdly escaped and decent
Tomatoes of
Dwarf beans - zilch- assume was duff pack
Spring onions okay second attempt with wool pellet protection
Bay plant going well
Ditto chives tarragon thyme and parsley
Beetroot decent
Sunflowers - seen snails about 3 foot up the stalks so leaves ravaged
Imo only sure fire snail and slug repellant are the pretty toxic ones. All the others are only partly successful |
If you live in the countryside, try gathering up just old wool that sheep have shed naturally, usually lots about prior to them being sheared in June/July. If you surround plants with it quite thickly, I’ve found it’s a pretty decent barrier, slugs/snails hate getting caught up in it. | |
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| How does your garden grow? on 15:34 - Aug 10 with 114 views | reusersfreekicks |
| How does your garden grow? on 15:16 - Aug 10 by Ryorry |
If you live in the countryside, try gathering up just old wool that sheep have shed naturally, usually lots about prior to them being sheared in June/July. If you surround plants with it quite thickly, I’ve found it’s a pretty decent barrier, slugs/snails hate getting caught up in it. |
Well my partner actually bought some wool for this purpose. Looks a bit weird on the raised bed and not entirely practical hence going down the wool pellet route with only partial success | | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 15:35 - Aug 10 with 107 views | ronnyd |
| How does your garden grow? on 11:39 - Aug 8 by Ryorry |
Tomatoes both in greenhouse and outside have grown & fruited well, but fruit's just not ripening, still green.
Cucs outside gh have for first time ever done better than those inside.
Plugs sold to me as Bell Peppers have done v. well in gh, big & prolific - but turned out to be chillis! which I can't eat (gut). Neighbour loves em tho.
Sprouts, & even nasturtium companions, have been completely stripped of all foliage (by cabbage white butterflies I assume, which have been mega-prolific this year). Only the skeleton stalks remain!
Runners are cropping poorly so far, & the cane frame has been pushed by storm wotsit into looking like the Leaning Tower of Ripon.
Peas have done exceptionally well, great crop from only a few plants.
Courgettes went from titchies to giants in about 4 days when we had heavy rain about 3 weeks ago, and are now marrows which are too heavy to carry, need wheelbarrowing to kitchen!
Lettuces & Celtuces - reasonably good.
Spinach - reasonably good, but much munched by slugs
Leeks - grown exceptionally well this year
Spring Onions - reasonably good
Asparagus - late but average
Globe Artichokes - poor this year, only half the usual number of fruit
Jerusalem Artichokes - vigorous as ever, harvesting is at least a month away.
Spuds still flowering, harvesting in maybe 2 weeks
Herbs slow growing except for curry plant!
Strawberries - incredibly disappointing, had about 10 strawbs from 10 (new) plants.
Figs - poorest year ever. Only about 3 on the outdoor tree, plenty in the gh tub one but they’re all titchy.
Hazelnuts & wild cherries - bumper crops, never seen anything like it, some branches so laden they were almost on the ground - but all blew off prematurely in last week's storm
Everything late this year owing to my delaying sowing & planting due to drought in spring. [Post edited 8 Aug 12:27]
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i picked some boullaces for jam making yesterday and it was like harvesting grapes. | | | |
| How does your garden grow? on 16:30 - Aug 10 with 68 views | EuanTown |
Victoria plumbs, apples and greengages now finally all come good at once. |  | | |
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