Mmm, interesting comments because we moved house last June so are gardening on a different type of soil (slightly acidic), no salt winds, very few slugs and snails, and have a smaller greenhouse. The garden hasn't been used for a few years so dug and/ or made new beds. There's a raised stone-walled cold frame where I sowed some carrots, beetroot, spring onions and sugar snaps. All are going great guns except the snaps as they were moved twice and didn't like it; however, three survived plus I sowed some more which are also growing up the frame. Next to the cold frame is a narrow low stone wall which was covered in concrete so got rid of that, dug some of it over, added mushroom compost, then planted more spring onions, three kale, three left-over sweet corn, and later on planted my leeks. All are thriving and have lovely dark green leaves, plus my corn is the fattest and has more potential cob parts than I've ever seen. The greenhouse, however, is another matter. Dug the two side beds over and planted two toms in each of two large grow bags. They took ages to get going, sprouted side shoots everywhere and currently have toms that are still green. My single climbing French bean at the back was also very slow and only produced one upright stem but it had the biggest, darkest, sparsely-spread green leaves I've ever seen and it's only now producing side stems which are just starting to flower. The three dwarf French beans were planted in the other bed which OH insisted I dug in two big bags of horse manure and they don't look well (see my post about Aminopyralid) and the sweet corn are tall but very spindly and they have finally produced the cob parts which I pollinated by tapping the stems with a stick. My ornamental plants ... well ... they also took absolute ages to get going. It has been a funny year weather-wise so I'll see what happens next year.
