[madcat]

No you wouldn't have spent more on spray than anything else, unless you've covered your allotment with them.
{.........}That's about 25p every ten days or so.

2.5p a day too much?

I suppose you are right - but it doesn't feel like that.  It has just been one worry after another, getting down there to spray when it isn't going to rain and isn't too windy, nipping off the leaves with the first signs, inspections for the dreaded first signs etc....  And we haven't won the battle, just postponed the defeat.  Hopefully we will get most of the crop swollen enough to ripen indoors.  It would have been a superb crop without the blight.  Lots of fruit on good healthy plants.  It feels like a King Canute job ..   

(Now my red onions were brilliant - seed and set grown!)

[aelf]

butternut squash. In fact, I may not even bother with it next year. It's had it's chance, I told it this year if there wasn't an improvement that would be that. Did it listen? No! 

[Aidy]

The wife 

[peapod]

The wife 

 

[Sadgit]

ROCKET!!!!

[Quetzal]

Chillis - I just dunno what I'm doing wrong. And carrots, too. Our soil is good, but the carrot fly is a persistent blighter and hard to keep out. Funny, because our parsnips are giant already, and seem to have been unmolested.

Also, it's not exactly the theme of the thread, but we'd decided to give up on cabbages (too much hassle keeping off the slugs), but we're harvesting them now and they're really tasty, so maybe we'll try again.

[corynsboy]

Bulb Fennel.  I tried growing it in buckets of general purpose compost this year.  It was rubbish.  It was better than last year but still shocking.  I love the stuff but I refuse to waste any more time on it. 

I've got some growing in the greenhouse now as I stupidly believed an article that I read in Kitchen Garden Magazine that said I can grow them in the greenhouse over winter.  This will end in tears!  I have one last plot to plant the fennel in this spring, if that doesn't work then it's over, I'm moving on.

Mostly everything else has been pretty good.  My Sweet corn was a disaster this year but it was the variety that was rubbish.  I'm over it.   My tomatoes were all hit by massive blight (along with most of our society) and in the end i removed all the leaves and I just  had fruit hanging from branches in the sun.  I’ll know to spray next time.

[flowerlady]

But why ... just think next year you might succeed !! 

[Casey76]

Tomatoes... for the second year in a row I lost the whole blooming lot to blight.  They take up too much space as I only have a small area

[Cazzy]

Caulis, second year with nothing.  Well not nothing, last year I had lovely yellow flowers from them.  This year, nada.

[Kristen]

Re Kolh rabi - "Bulbs were the size of small footballs"

We eat ours at golf-ball size, tennis-ball size is the absolute limit. Succulent raw at that stage, perhaps wood if they get too big?

[Chappers]

Caulis, second year with nothing.  Well not nothing, last year I had lovely yellow flowers from them.  This year, nada.

same here, one more try in the net tunnel im gonna build 

[DD.]

Mentioned this elsewhere, but finally cracked summer caulis this year with a club root resistance variety "Clapton" & growing them under debris netting.

[Elaine G]

Might give a final go to tomatoes as I love them, but lost the past 2 yrs to blight so its touch and go

Elaine

[birmancats]

Would have said carrots as first year good crop all pinched, 2nd and 3rd year nada, this year John's free seeds have come up a treat.  Really good size and shape.  My faith in carrots has been restored.  Wonder if I'll have as much luck next year.