[Beetroot queen]

Cress.

I know it's the easiest thing to grow but I want a little carton like you buy in the shop. Mine is always hit and miss some half an inch some really tall. I want consistency and I can't achieve it yet. I usually do mine on damp kitchen towel.

It's frustrating as even kids can grow it.

Make me feel better and confess below 

[savbo]

spring onions

never seem to get anywhere with them. So I plant spare shallot and onion sets and use them instead

sav

[ptarmigan]

Parsley.  Can't get it to germinate, and if it does, it either doesn't grow or goes to seed immediately - my neighbours grow forests of the stuff.

[allot2learn]

spring onions

never seem to get anywhere with them. So I plant spare shallot and onion sets and use them instead

sav

Same with me. It must be the Manchester weather. 

[Baldy]

Probably not a complete list but for what its worth...

Aubergines
Peppers
Spring Onions
&
Brassicas...

Perhaps I've got the wrong hobby! 

Balders

[Stree]

Taller.

5`3" and thats it.

[Beetroot queen]

Taller.

5`3" and thats it.

Oi nothing wrong with 5 foot 3. Unless you want to reach the top shelf in the supermarket or pick a tall sunflower head, or do a million and one things us shorties can't do.

I am adding runner beans to my confession, I am having a one year blip 

[madcat]

Parsley.  Can't get it to germinate, and if it does, it either doesn't grow or goes to seed immediately - my neighbours grow forests of the stuff.

There are two old wives tales about parsley ....  it only grows
 -  where there is a baby on the way 
 -  where the woman wears the trousers    :blink:

take your pick .....   

[Coldfeet]

Rhubarb.  Everyone tells me it's easy, but won't show for me!

[al78]

Parsley.  Can't get it to germinate, and if it does, it either doesn't grow or goes to seed immediately - my neighbours grow forests of the stuff.

Have you tried soaking the seeds for 24 hours before sowing?

[al78]

Carrots, get grazed off before they get to three inches tall. It would be an achievement for me to get them big enough to be bothered by the carrot fly.

[pigguns]

Parsley.  Can't get it to germinate, and if it does, it either doesn't grow or goes to seed immediately - my neighbours grow forests of the stuff.

Have you tried soaking the seeds for 24 hours before sowing?

I do the boiling -water-down-the-drill thing and it worked well for me on clay soil last year.  Otherwise I split a lidl 99p pot up and transplant    Have got some of that growing on nicely this year and saves the faff.

Tomatoes.  O the shame 

ps. and 5ft. sort of. Just.

[devon]

Spring onions tried and tried but never managed to get more than  blades of grass

[Yorkie]

Spring onions for me too 

[Beetroot queen]

I can grow spring onions lol how funny what people have trouble with