[mother hen]

My failures are radish, pak choi and french beans,  carrots getting better year by year, nettles, peas and spuds easy.  Would really love to grow butternut squash and big onions now ive seen vegmandans.

[paintedlady]

which leads me to ask why so many posters find swiss chard very easy while failing with beetroot? They are virtually the same plant

You are right Eristic!  My past experience of both leaf beet/chard & beetroot has been very disappointing.  I also think the advice often given by too many people that carrots, parsnips & beetroots should not be planted in recently manured beds is also making that confusing.  This year was to be my last attempt to grow beet of any kind so they got a double helping of manure - whoa, absolutely amazing crops and my faith restored

[matron]

This year we have had a bumper crop of peas. Good onions and loads of runner beans. The beets are good.
Struggling with the tomatoes this year though.  :?

[lucywil]

the only thing i have had trouble with is carrots, planted 2 rows and got 2 very poor carrots, will keep trying though

[lucywil]

the only thing i have had trouble with is carrots, planted 2 rows and got 2 very poor carrots, will keep trying though

[Bob]

This year, easiest has been cabbages.  Carrots have been a nightmare, even the ones I had in containers got eaten by carrot fly!

[gobs]

I can't grow spring onions, even if my life depended on it.

[jennyb]

hardest,  or least successful definately brassicas cauliflowers, then brocollis, then red cabbbages then white.  oh and fennel - major flop but then that was a first ever attempt.

everything else has been fine, tomatoes, onions, carrots, beans, sugar snaps.

not sure i would describe the as hard or easy,  more successful or not.

interplanting carrots and parsnips with onions has kept carrot at bay for the last  years for me.

[jennyb]

double post

[diggerjoe]

I transplanted beet sthis year red, white and orange ones all grew like mad best beets ever - courgettes good - peas not bad - mange tout peas incredible never grown before but will put them in again next year - pumpkins first year growing they are doing well - beans very good especially climbing purple french they dont seem to mind the rain - spuds as had none last year the ones i've had this year are a bonus - not good this year with corn started really well but tailed off cobs are only half germinated and i had such hopes for them - but all round can't complain and now the catalogus are coming through the post cant wait till next year  

[Sadgit]

easiest - 'gettes , beet, runner beans, onions, garlic and broad beans *edit* oh and Mange tout... amazing they were.

hardest - spuds, butternut squash, french beans, carrots, cauli (given up with them), broc (this year), fennel (runs the 100m in 8 seconds, BOLT geddit), snips (never ever again)

[nickyveglover]

Easiest for me sweetcorn,peas,beans and toms. Hardest caulis all got eaten.

[Bombers]

Well, I think the easiest (as in the least amount of effort) has to be the Broad beans.

The most difficult, well not really difficult, but certainly the most effort for the least return has to be my Toms! 5 months of T.L.C. the best grow bags money can buy, and expensive Tommy food.................

.... and I still haven't got a RED ONE

 

[Bethslosttheplot]

I must agree on the courgette front.... had hundreds of them off two plants.... my potatos did really well too.... got a fair few peas off 8 plants but the best and easiest had to be my runner beans....  

As for carrots....  I have had a handful... mainly due to inexperiance really dont think I thinned em right but I am the only person on our site to have em cause everyone else got carrot fly....  I however planted in mine in an old oil drum with the bottom missing... the fly cannot fly that high  

Hardest for me was cucumber (plant died) Mange tout did nothing and my tomatos are huge great bushes with little green toms on them but nothing ripened  :cry:

[kezlou]

Easiest lettuce, pumpkins (just left drowned in rain and weeds, turned up and they were) and peas.

Hardest everything else, tomatoes being the worst stupid blight grrr :evil: