[sarah-king]

Harvesting lettuce, a few mangetout Nothing else nearly ready, toms small and green, cucs and courgettes only just flowering, runner beans Been flowering ages but still no beans! Beets and carrots still very small...onions gone to seed(ends taken off but not bulbing up)

Strawbs and potatoes eaten tho.. Potato harvest very poor!

 

[madcat]

You need rain!   

[sarah-king]

Everything is growing in my garden and watered every night so I don't think it's that also fed when needed...

[Jamie Butterworth]

Its still only early for your onions, I know ive only had peas and strawberries (plus 1 or 2 rasberries and french beans) this year.

[BADBACK]

patience is a flower that does,nt grow
in everybodys garden

[nilsatis1964]

I am just down the road from you in Leeds. I have harvested my over wintering onions and this weekend will lift the first spring planted sets.  I have had some peas but poor return per number of plants.  Tomatos in flower, cues not even in flower, first flowers on pumpkins and courgettes.  My first earlies did not pay for my labour time.  The saving graces has been raspberries by the kg and salad lettuce,radish and spring onion.  This is my first full year on the plot.  I have planted winter squahes and swede and turnip.

[Babstreefern]

Hate to say this, but your's sounds like my plot last year - the peas I planted (and there was a lot), I managed to harvest one very small pan full - enough for one meal.  This year, it took me three hours to shell one lot of peas that I'd grown - that's besides the other lot of peas the other week.  My french climbing beans have only just started to produce beans, in fact if it wasn't for me weeding about them, I wouldn't have seen them.  I've had a few cukes, my toms are just now starting to go red; my peppers are still small; I don't think I'll do well on my garlic for the first time ever.  I did really well on strawberries, and spuds.  Doing well on courgettes (the round yellow ones - I took a bag full into work for my mates - my arms felt like gorillas - dragging on the ground ).  My grapevine is full of grapes; I'm trying aubergines, but I don't think I'll do anything on them.  But hey, that's the beauty of growing, you don't know what's going to happen, and if do good or bad, you don't know what did right/wrong

[Terrier]

Win some, lose some, lose some, lose some   It's the nature of growing your own. I read that you shouldn't water onions, so this year I didn't and I've had my most successful crop yet (so far). I never manage to get a ripe tomato in my greenhouse before mid August no matter how early I sow them. As for salad, if it grows this well in a drought, I'm moving to the Sahara,LOL. I didn't plant any first earlies, but I've not dared look at my seconds yet in case it's all greenery and no spuds underneath. The upside of all the dry weather is NO SLUG DAMAGE  

[Trillium]

Thanks to the long heatwave we've had (averaging 30-32C) and record rainfalls, we're now eating early corn. Not ours, but from an organic grower 15 km away. YUMMMM! Ours will be ready in 2 more weeks. And the raspberries are just loving all the rain - it's a jungle out there.

[Terrier]

So we can blame Ontario for our lack of annual precipitation, you've hijacked it all 

[Trillium]

It does seem like it, doesn't it. We've had more rain in one month than we get all year and it's still coming every 2nd day it seems. So much for the big waterbutt system we built this year to deal with our usual bone dry summers here. Very unusual year.

[Terrier]

It does seem like it, doesn't it. We've had more rain in one month than we get all year and it's still coming every 2nd day it seems. So much for the big waterbutt system we built this year to deal with our usual bone dry summers here. Very unusual year.

In the twenty odd years we've been on our smallholding, the well I use to water the animals has never run dry, that is, untill a couple of weeks ago and I havn't had any water from it since. To think, a few years ago this area of North Wales was suffering from the worse flooding in living memory. Strange times 

[sarah-king]

Its a very strange year..... its my first year of growing in my raised beds in the garden as i had an allotment before i moved, ive planted more beets and carrots in the gaps where they didnt come up and they are just poking through...

I feel much better knowing its not just me  on the other hand my greenhouse is full to the brim lots and lots of tiny green toms forming, peppers have started flowering and this morning i noticed a cucumber comming (tiny but its there)