[AlaninCarlisle]

Without a shadow of doubt mine is my leek crop. All 250 of them. As per usual I started them off under heat in mid April and planted them out into good earth in late May. I grew 3 varieties including Musselburgh and Autumn Giant and they grew well, too well. In late August they started to bolt and develop seed heads and the whole lot are totally ruined with tough unpleasantly textured centres. This is the first time in 20 years of growing them that this has happened. I can only blame the Cumbrian heatwave in June followed by a long warm July and August as I treated them in the same way as in the previous seasons

[fatbelly]

Cauliflower 
I paid £3 for a pack of 20 seeds from T & M.
Not one of them has come to anything .

[Growster...]

That's rotten luck, Alan.

Been there, watched the plants muck about, and I'm afraid it will often happen.

Our winter leeks are not looking good either, although we've done what we always do.

Can you snap the seed heads off, and at least let them flourish on their own? We take any plants with seed stems apart, and just use the fleshy outer bits for soup etc, and at least we get 'something'!

But that's not a friendly answer - sorry!

[Fairy Plotmother]

Cauliflowers☹️ And cabbages. Butterflies got in under the cover.....need I say more.😠

[juvenal]

Tomatoes wiped out by blight. Onions and garlic undersized.

[Flowertot]

Whole shallot crop destroyed by allium leaf miner  , beetroot pathetic examples this year, leeks all hopeless. Luckily other things have been good  - it's all a balance, isn't it!

[engineer]

All cabbages, spring, summer and autumn gone to the slugs and greenfly, polytunnel, cukes, and chillies, spider mite! Gutted 😥

[LILLILEAF]

my biggest let down was the strawberries i put in 52 plants,we had about 12 strawberries, tiny nasty little slugs got the rest,and potatoes 20 seed spuds in,enough small potatoes for 2 meals

[Growster...]

And first early spuds - pathetic!

They hardly got going, then were slugged to kingdom come!

[m1ckz]

mine is     fed had heart attack down on nthe plot  5 weeks later   a mini stroke  while on the plot  end of august rusted to hospital while on the plot blood clot had killes the bowl/colostomy opp with a 90 per cent chance of being a vegetable
i came out ok though now recovering good ready for sping lol just getting seeds an plants sorted

[Fairy Plotmother]

mine is     fed had heart attack down on nthe plot  5 weeks later   a mini stroke  while on the plot  end of august rusted to hospital while on the plot blood clot had killes the bowl/colostomy opp with a 90 per cent chance of being a vegetable
i came out ok though now recovering good ready for sping lol just getting seeds an plants sorted

that rather puts life into perspective doesn't it. Glad you are recovering well. Make it easy on yourself when making next year's plan.

[snowdrops]

mine is     fed had heart attack down on nthe plot  5 weeks later   a mini stroke  while on the plot  end of august rusted to hospital while on the plot blood clot had killes the bowl/colostomy opp with a 90 per cent chance of being a vegetable
i came out ok though now recovering good ready for sping lol just getting seeds an plants sorted

Here's to a better year for you, sorry to hear you have been so poorly, as PM says puts it all in to perspective

[AlaninCarlisle]

Well you certainly put my leek problems into perspective, m1ckz. I hope you continue to make a full recovery

[BabbyAnn]

mine is     fed had heart attack down on nthe plot  5 weeks later   a mini stroke  while on the plot  end of august rusted to hospital while on the plot blood clot had killes the bowl/colostomy opp with a 90 per cent chance of being a vegetable
i came out ok though now recovering good ready for sping lol just getting seeds an plants sorted

I wish you all the best [hugs] ... but considering all the illnesses occur on the plot, I wonder if it is worth considering a different hobby?

[Debz]

The weather!  Its been too cold or too wet or too warm or too windy at all the wrong times and did for just about all the fruit and veg in my garden and greenhouse.