[Hampshire Hog]

Rubbish germination of French beans but peas have stormed ahead. Resorted to buying plants from local garden centre. Spuds ok. All seems slow though.

Cheers HH

[chillimummy]

I bought broad bean plants from garden centre and will sow some more french beans tom. Giving up with peas.   

[Wiltshire Worms]

Good so far..carrots tomatoes greenhouse, sprout plants look like trees beans,start picking next week and potatoes. Sweetcorn looks fine but slow..lettuce non stop since march

Disaster onions all gone black and parsnips germination

So on balance..not too bad really

[Wiltshire Worms]

Sorry.forgot the beetroot. .rubbish which means I'm in trouble with Mrs W Worm as she would have beetroot for breakfast dinner and tea if she could😊

[juvenal]

My garlic is rubbish this year. The size of walnuts.

[Growster...]

My garlic is rubbish this year. The size of walnuts.

Same here, Juvenal!

I lifted the lot a couple of days ago, and have hardly covered the cost...

Rust may have been an added problem - it was particularly bad this year!

[al78]

In the south east/south central England it has been the dullest June on record, with some places receiving less than 100 hours of sunshine over the whole month. In contrast, Lerwick in the Shetland islands received nearly 200 hours of sunshine and Anglesey received around 220 hours last month. North and West were the places to go for anything resembling summer last month. Thankfully here in Sussex July has started off better, but the sunshine rationing is in place this week and well into next week.

[goose]

hi all, long time lurking but first post in ages!  sorry!

I agree that it has been a really weird season.  I sowed my fourth and last attempt at carrots today!  if they don't take, it will be too late.

on the bright side, I had a good days harvest (peas/charlottes/courgettes/strawberries).

[Sparkyrog]

weather is dodo thats not helping ! 4 degrees here in somerset at 4:30 am this morning

[Christine]

Just what were you doing at 4.30 am to know that is the question ...

[Headgardener22]

weather is dodo thats not helping ! 4 degrees here in somerset at 4:30 am this morning

Warmer here in Nottingham 8.5C (according to my Raspberry Pi).

[jaydig]

It seems that every season has its ups and downs, and we never know what to expect. We must be an optimistic lot, either that or we are all born masochists!  This year my peas were doing really well until we had all that rain, and then they nearly drowned, so I'm not really expecting them to do anything much. Potatoes have succumbed to blight that seems to be a lot earlier this year.  The birds took almost all of the gooseberries, and the onions have leek moth grubs in the leaves. The Borlotti beans are contemplating committing suicide,  2/3rd of the strawberry crop has rotted, and a lot of the brassicas look very sad.
On the upside, the runner and dwarf beans look great, salad crops are doing well, the onions are growing well despite the moth attack, raspberries have loved the wet, the pear and apple trees are loaded, the sweet corn is better than last year, and the courgettes are going strong.
We are lucky in this country that we don't have plagues of locusts, droughts, hurricanes and the like,  and usually end up with more than enough to feed ourselves.  Its just that we may not end up eating quite what we had planned.
Can't wait for next year - I love a challenge!

[Fairy Plotmother]

2 large blank spaces where parsnips and carrots have failed to germinate, 4 melons eaten by slugs, 2 butternut squash eaten by slugs, cucumbers reluctant to get going. On the up a bumper crop of raspberries.😀
I am now planning for next year!

[AlaninCarlisle]

2 large blank spaces where parsnips have failed to germinate,

Same here for the first time ever

[JayG]

Yup - not always easy to tell in a year like this whether the carrots and parsnips germinated poorly or whether they were nobbled by slugs before I  spotted them (or both.  )

I've just got some more parsnip seedlings appearing from a recent resowing, which should add to the 6 existing survivors, although I'm not expecting to have to hire a JCB to dig them out later this year!