[AlaninCarlisle]

For the first time in 30 years I'm unlikely to have any parsnips, despite four sowings throughout April and May. I put this down to extremes of temperature in the period, unless some kind of bug or creeping pest .
has developed a taste for them
Anyone else had a spectacular failure?

[AnneB]

Onions.   Turbo from setts hardly grown.  I was so pleased to find them to buy this year too.

Broad beans and peas about half / two thirds normal height but I will get a crop from them I think.

Beetroot is very feeble.   

Globe artichoke not happy.

Strawberries very poor - not sure if this is weather related or it is time to replace.

Most other stuff is OK.

[greenjay]

no parsnips.
broad beans covered in blackfly
short peas
plenty of strawberrys but something keeps beating me to any ripe ones.

[Mr Dog]

Celeriac and celery are my big disappointments this year with all but 2 celery and 1 celeriac plants being munched to the ground by slugs shortly after being planted out. Like Anne, my peas and broad bean plants are much smaller than usual but I've had some (not as many as I'd have liked) broad beans and there's quite a few pods on the peas, so fingers crossed.

[sunshineband]

Autumn-planted onion sets failed as most bolted 

Spring-planted sets regulary disturbed by moles so gave up the ghost

Only half the parsnips groing, but that's better than last year I guess

OK on most other things thank goodness

[madcat]

Parsnips were our big failure too.  True across all the plots on our site, even from the very experienced green thumb brigade. 
No spring onions, but I did wonder about the age of the packet.  And the lettuces are well behind hand .... but now on their way.

[JayG]

No 'abysmal failures' so far, but I have lost possibly as much as a fifth of my Lady Christl potato plants to what looks like blackleg, although the plants I've dug up did manage to produce a portion of undamaged spuds apiece. (Certified seed potatoes do not come with a 100% guarantee there are no diseases present, and blackleg infection seems to be more common in UK seed potatoes than you might expect.)

My parsnip germination was patchy, so I had to resort to transplanting some of the thinnings into holes filled with MP compost in the hope of avoiding forking - time will tell but they are at least growing OK so far.

[ARPoet]

Onion sets have been hit by leaf minor and look quite sorry for themselves. I doubt if i will get enough for stoning and using this winter.
Broad beans have failed spectacularly and peas very patchy but catching up now.

[mumofstig]

I've no Summer cabbage for the first time ever  I don't know if it was poor seed, poor compost or the weather variations, but all the repeated early sowings either didn't germinate, or never got to a size worth planting.
Later sowings for Autumn/winter cabbage have been more successful, so far.

Most other stuff is struggling, as we need some rain. Tap water never works as well as rain IMO.

[Enfield Glen]

Strawberry's lasted for just over a week before giving up fruiting and were all very small.

Spinach has been virtually non existent, some grew to 1 inch and went straight to seed.

Carrot germination rate has been very poor as well, out of 3 packets of seed I will be lucky to get 30.

Peas have done well but have needed watering daily.

[Goosegirl]

Parsnips and spring onions - zero. Beetroot, onions, potatoes, autumn-sown garlic and shallots all doing nicely,  in fact the beetroot leaves are bigger than I've eve seen before.

[jaydig]

For the first time in 30 years I'm unlikely to have any parsnips, despite four sowings throughout April and May. I put this down to extremes of temperature in the period, unless some kind of bug or creeping pest .
has developed a taste for them
Anyone else had a spectacular failure?

Parsnips seem to have been a problem for most folk on our site this year.  Personally, in one thirty foot row I have just two showing, and this is despite sowing twice!

[Toosje]

I have one row of parsnips. The second row I have sown twice, but no growth. Neither union seeds, leeks, radish is having a hard time, fennel and red beets are still very very small, half of our potatoes didn't grow.. So quite a bit, but still a reasonably filled garden.

I keep sowing until the time has passed. This has helped the carrots, sweetcorn, pumpkins, cauliflower, broccoli..

[DaveF68]

Dwarf French Beans - netting blown off and eaten by pheasants. Replaced by autumn kale
Cauliflowers - net tunnel blown off by storms, plants eaten by pheasants. Leaving these in in case they re-leave.

Raspberries - storm blew over half the canes on the summer fruiting plants.

[Grubbypaws]

Wild rocket ; very few seeds germinated and those that did stayed miniature.

Blueberry Spartan; very healthy looking plant with not a single blueberry! I re potted it last year so maybe it is just too happy in its new pot to bother flowering?

Potatoes succumbing to black leg. I don’t know yet whether I will loose them all but not looking good 

Parsnips doing extremely well after an extra ordinary success with germination