[bigben]

By the way, I took someone's advise on here, took off all the flower stalks and whizzed them up in the blender and put the lot in jars - makes a fantastic addition to salads and stews and is surprisingly intense.  Thanks whoever you were! 

What a great idea - I will have to do this next year. I grew quite a few types - some supermarket types which have not done so well and some proper seed garlic which has done really well. The one supermarket type that did ok did produce loads of the flower stalks and I chopped one or two in stir fry but most got wasted when I harvested the garlic. I think the hardneck garlic tends to produce more stalks than the soft neck stuff. This is only from my limited experience this year though!

[Lardman]

And heres todays.

Swift 1st earlies. Not only are they lacking that earthy taste, they're far to big, far to few Oh and covered in scab.  

[missycat]

I was feeling quite smug that everything on the plot was coming along nicely, admitedly the soft fruit (other than strawberries!!) is few and far between but the bushes were only planted last Autumn, then today (missed yesterday) I found that all my pak choi and mooli have bolted, caterpillars have decimated my brassicas, the tomato leaves have gone yellow and all the spring onions look withered...NOT SO SMUG NOW

[tosca100]

I was feeling quite smug that everything on the plot was coming along nicely, admitedly the soft fruit (other than strawberries!!) is few and far between but the bushes were only planted last Autumn, then today (missed yesterday) I found that all my pak choi and mooli have bolted, caterpillars have decimated my brassicas, the tomato leaves have gone yellow and all the spring onions look withered...NOT SO SMUG NOW

 

 :(so sorry.

[Will1983]

this all sounds quite familiar..
i lifted my garlic earlier in the week and every single 1 of them was smaller than a golf ball.. all usable though just not very big or split into cloves..

also all my spinach bolted. my sweetcorn are still only about 14" tall, my peas have hardly grown at all since planting out and the pigeons have battered my brassicas!

[Yorkie]

i lifted my garlic earlier in the week and every single 1 of them was smaller than a golf ball.. all usable though just not very big or split into cloves..

my sweetcorn are still only about 14" tall, my peas have hardly grown at all since planting out and the pigeons have battered my brassicas!

You and me both 

[boosh]

I am happy with my garlic crop, But my Charlotte spuds have been non exsistent due to the Fox on our site. and its moved onto the Anyas.    .  to the Fox

[Mosslane]

Biggest failure has been my courgettes. Bought expensive seed - £3 for 6 seeds and only 1 germinated and still has no flowers

[Will1983]

oh my courgettes are my one major success!!! already had 3 decent sized ones off the plant planted in my compost heap and theres loads more on their way on other plants dotted around the plot..

oh forgot to say in my previous post, my cucumbers, chillis and tomatoes have all been a disappointment. its my fault though i didnt pot them on early enough and they all became pot bound.