[rhysdad]

My first year on the plot and i've really gone for it:

Parsnips, Sweetcorn, courgettes, runner and french beans, Rhubarb, Spring onions, Leeks, Beetroot and radish have all done very well but, as MOS says, i hope we get enough sun for the Sweetcorn. Garlic was ace too, 65 bulbs overall and it's absolutely delish!!
Onions, red and white and shallots did very well but i left them in too long really and lost a fair few shallots to rot and the Red baron onions have been a bit hit and miss. Some are very soft and others bolted so i have about 15 bulbs from 50 that'll hopefully store okay. The Sturon Onions are brilliant however and will store well i hope!! Next year i will pull the Shallots out earlier as this will give me a smaller bulb overall for pickling.
Tomatoes have been reasonably okay, cues are dire this year (just got Mildew now), Bell peppers are doing reasonably as well as the chili's!!

Things that have been a pickle to grow were cauli's, Cavolo Nero kale (pigeons and slugs) and Dwarf French beans that the slugs got. Also Stawberries have grown very well but the slugs get them before me!! Carrots were zapped buy slugs i think so i grow them at home in my raised beds and are doing fab! Herbs grow at home too.

Considering the weather, i'm happy for my first year but i've got a lot of Winter work to put in now to get a real flyer next year....

[Lady Rosemary]

Really pleased with: 1st and 2nd earlies, beans (runners, climbing), cucumbers, tomatoes, spinach, courgettes, onions, shallots (HUGE crop), garlic

Disappointed with: cauliflower, broccoli, radish, strawberries, broad beans  

Waiting to harvest: aubergines, chilli, peppers, sweetcorn, melons, squashes, cabbage, sprouts, beetroot, carrots, parsnip, spring onion, PSB

will better prepare myself for next year - already planning!  

[dexyblue]

Pleased with Spring onions, pentland javelin spuds, peas, strawberries, pumpkins and butternut squash, calabrese, carrots

Disappointed with Courgettes(only 1 out of 8 plants and the squirrel got to it first), Scarlet Lady beans, sweet peas, turnips, beetroot

[mumofstig]

Pleased with Ambo 2nd early spuds, Alderman peas, purple clmg beans, white runner beans, Hispi cabbage, Red cabbage, chard, sweetcorn, parsnips look good (I hope they are when lifted) Squash and courgettes all setting well at last, leeks look good as does swede, Tundra winter cabbage and the sprouts. Fingers crossed for the Romanesco and celeriac.
Dissapointed with sugarsnaps, climbing green beans, my onions got white rot 1st early spuds PJs very low yield, and early cauli? well, the biggest head was 3in

In the greenhouse toms are late but doing well now, only 1 cue out of 3 alive and only just thinking about it now
Peppers are catching up as well....
Aubergines are huge lovely strong plants.....but only 1 early fruit so far...........nothing else has set   

So some successes and some failures...a typical year then

[NorfolkVeg]

My first year on allotment and progress so far is

Potatoes - good crops
Broad Beans - LOTS and LOTS
Cabbages - Growing well and have picked 2 already
Peas - slow and small amounts but taste fantastic
Courgettes - plants grew great to start, now slow and only odd fruit
Celery - plants thickening fast and all took

My main problems of the whole year so far is getting seeds to take directly in the ground.  Everything I have had success with was starting at home and transplanted and therefore I have no carrotts, parsnips or swedes and that is what we eat most of so I need to find a way of getting these little things to grow next year!!

Rick

[shokkyy]

Gartenperle tomatoes
Spring & maincrop onions
Red cabbage
Cobra French beans
Lettuce
Garlic

Pretty much everything else (even courgettes  ) have been a partial or total failure. It's the worst growing year I've ever had.

[Nobbie]

My onions are exceptional this year, I'd planted the sets about 4" apart in rows about 9" apart expecting to get smaller onions from the close spacing as last years were huge. The leaves have just flopped and most of them are almost touching each other!

Early carrots were lovely although a bit of fly did get under the enviromesh.

[teasmade!]

first year so we thought 'if it grows it grows  '

we are actually struggling to keep up with all the crops we have, so far it has been

runner beans by the bucket load
french beans o.k but not as good
peas had a major battle with the weeds and lost 

cabbages of many varieties mostly doing well, some like footballs others a little deformed and the poor savoy have battled pigeons, weather, whitefly, cabbage white and the list goes on BUT STILL GOING STRONG!!!  try as they might!!

broad beans by the bucket load
onions did fantastic all types
curly kale has grown brilliantly and there is tons of it
sweetcorn are doing well but we shall see???
swede put them in and lets see what happens
and loads more..... we never thought this would happen but woohoo!!!!!

the best has got to be the pumpkin !!! we bought 2 plants for 50p each on sale (i felt sorry for them ....)  put them in a spare part of the plot and now we have an enormous pumpkin!! fantastic!!

[Gravedigger]

First year on uncultivated plot - and being organic with nothing to kick start it...

the good: Lady Crystl spuds....delicious - still 1 full bed to harvest - some of them tiny but most a decent size.  They looked pathetic next to all our neighbours but there was more than enough for us....and I'm implementing a no (well low) watering regime

broad beans...lots of lovely fat pods full of firm beans

Broccoli ... looks so beautiful now I'm tempted to harvest

The medium:  cauli..part of the mystery brassica bed (labels washed off seedlings) - curds appeared while we were away so a bit scabby and small - leaves demolished by slugs

the rest of the brassicas....all very huge and lush but still don't know what is what   Some outer leaves yellowing but they are fighting off the slugs too so I'll wait and see

the onion bed...mixture of white, red and shallot.  Many of the white and red bolted...some nice big onions, some piddly little ones...all drying on dining room table now while I decide what to do with them.  Shallots good though with 8-10 shallots to each set

Carrots and Parsnips...after 1st sowing of carrots disappeared, 2nd attempt looking very healthy...parsnips looking good too after a very slow (and probably too early) start.

the bad: peas and french beans...no evidence of either crop - no evidence of anything getting to them...just nothing!  Will try next year by starting off in pots

leeks - jury still out on them...just about getting to pencil thickness now - again I probably started them too early