[AnneB]

My first "successful" melon.  It is a whole 2" in diameter.   It is living up to its name of Petit Gris de Rennes, petit being the important bit.  Plant got mildew.  Suspect it won't taste very good.

[Aidy]

Main crop spuds, I have for many a year grown Romano but this year our GC closed and by the time I got round to getting me seed spuds it was Cara, slugs have loved them, 5 rows binned!

leeks, some have gone to seed some haven't

Toms, started off fantastic but then went downhill quick.

Everything else as been reyt gradley

[Lulu]

Tomatoes - lots of promise but just yucky and not ripening properly. Even the indoor ones which is just weird.
And what is Cucumelon about - not growing them again

Is there a post about what went well??

[BumbleJo]

Flower Sprouts or Kalettes.  I was really looking forward to trying this new brassica and they've grown really well but they are absolutely covered in little grey aphids.  Impossible to remove them without taking each little sprout apart and even then they don't wash off.  They are also on the kale in clusters but some leaves are ok.  I don't fancy eating the extra protein so the whole lot is for the compost heap.  Only the PSB seems unaffected. 

[New shoot]

Is there a post about what went well??

There is now   

[p6t6]

Onions, many went to seed or did not develop.
Leeks, still cant get my leeks to thicken up to a good standard.

[lettice]

My radish this year were not the best, many took on a more lanky appearance and more than usual had many that went woody very quickly. Same ones I always sow.
Did find my all year lettuce and my French salad lettuce grew more upright and not such a good spread crop. Tasted fine, but grew too quick and died to quick. But succession sowings more often sort of solved that.
I thought some of my beetroot was small, but recently they have all taken on a spurt and are as big as ever. Not sure if the warm and dry weather stunted them a bit.
My Hunter beans and French beans took a long time to get going and are now finally cropping fine, but have had better years.

[al78]

Broccoli, epic fail. One spear sprouts and then flowers before I can pick it.

Leeks, bolted in the hot dry weather in August, they are much thinner than usual and looking a bit sorry for themselves. I can still use them by slicing length-ways and removing the hard core.

Brassicas in general, doing well apart from epic whitefly infestation. Clouds of them every time I harvest, and one or two plants looking a bit battle scarred.

On the plus side, no-one has driven a car into me this year, so have at least been active on the plot for most of the growing season unlike last year.

[AlaninCarlisle]

That's a thought with leeks that have bolted, slice them lengthways and remove the hard inner core

[snowdrops]

I think it was on this thread that someone suggested cutting leeks right down if affected with. Something. Well I did just that & I was amazed when I went back yesterday they were all up an inch above the soil after just one week. Not to say they haven't been affected under ground but it was worth a punt as they would all have had to be dug out. I'll wait a week or 2 before trying a couple

[andimac]

Brussel sprouts: grew to a huge height and looked great until they bolted and then got eaten by the same thing which has decimated the PSB.
PSB: See above
Leeks: all ran to seed but then I did use some mini plants from the year before!
Runner beans, lots of growth but very few beans.
Garlic: bit mixed with only 50% forming proper bulbs.
Beetroot: Small ping pong ball sized roots or bolted.

But next year's garlic is already in, the beds are being prepped with either green manure or covered with weed control fabric and hope springs eternal.