[ferreter51]

Interested to see what you all find difficult to grow

I have success with most things but haven't had a decent crop of spring onions for as long as I can remember.

These should be easy but I think I have a spring onion curse

My only problem is growing brassicas in modules.  The come up then die off.  I have tried watering well,  hardly watering at all and all stations in between.  For the third year running I have had to buy established seedlings from a garden centre.

[Nobbie]

Butternut squash, never got a decent crop of them and nothing at all last year. Basil always seems to give up on life.

[mumofstig]

it's obviously not warm enough for either where you are shame 

[arugula]

Congratulations for just becoming a "hero" member Stompy! 

(Commiserations for not liking bulb fennel!) 

He's in good company on both counts.  :happy:

Back on the original topic, nearly everything is just sitting there, not growing! Its just not warm enough!

[kermit]

Congratulations for just becoming a "hero" member Stompy! 

(Commiserations for not liking bulb fennel!) 

He's in good company on both counts.  :happy:

Back on the original topic, nearly everything is just sitting there, not growing! Its just not warm enough!

I hear you! Weather just awful. Must be the worst spring on record up here for growing - hot dry April, gales cold and wet all may with no heat or sun. And so far temps still bit low at night in June, and too little settled sunny weather! Even my salad crops look glum!

So where we emigrating to?!

[arugula]

Italy wasn't it Kermit? I've always fancied it better than Greece or Spain, just love the food!

[brown thumb]

tomatoes from seed this year 4 diffrent varietys never got any higher than 2" all hit the compost last year i had that many i couldnt give them away will try again next year when i see pics of toms on here very jealous

[mumofstig]

Italy wasn't it Kermit? I've always fancied it better than Greece or Spain, just love the food!

But you wouldn't like the prices  that's why I went to Greece!............but Lord knows what it's like there now with all the strikes and tax increases 
It will probably be the same here, later this year, but we haven't got their weather

[arugula]

Italy wasn't it Kermit? I've always fancied it better than Greece or Spain, just love the food!

But you wouldn't like the prices  that's why I went to Greece!............but Lord knows what it's like there now with all the strikes and tax increases 
It will probably be the same here, later this year, but we haven't got their weather

We can dream. And you're probably right about the second bit.

[Beklet]

Had trouble with everything this year - except some horrible creeping weed in my onions that has ants nests under it all! 

Generally though, any form of brassica, as the flea beetles go to town!

First year we had a glut of runner beans, this year, they're barely 6" high!!!

[LeeR]

Well apart from the hair on my head, cauliflowers.  One year I had too many plants and gave some away to a plot neighbour, I didn't get a thing and his were fine  . Still, I'm giving it another go this year after a break last year.

[veggirl]

Cauliflowers for everyone on our allotments, swede for me 

[Nige2Plots]

Onions this year

[Starlings]

I really struggle with Basil 2 years in a row it has been terrible indoors and out

[fatbelly]

Spring onions - no problems. Start them in modules, a pinch of seed in each, then plant out as a clump.

Now, swede, there's a different matter - I'll be lucky to get a couple from a 32' row due to club root.

Doesn't stop me trying every year though!

I have trouble growing Springers and was thinking of trying your Cat Litter tray method that you use for Leeks.
Do you think it might work? Or is modules the way to go with Springers?