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Goosegirl · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2012, 13:44 »

Peas eventually germinated, growing and starting to flower, but are still only about a foot high. Broad beans with pods but have to see how many beans there are in them.
Pots are being harvested (Charlotte and Vivaldi), 3 sweet corn plants ok but slow growing, brassicas the same, no beetroot showing but I have 3 parsnip and 5 carrot seedlings - sowed some more of the last three. Onions and shallots ok but leaves have flopped (winds here?) and need sun to ripen. Just transplanted my leeks a week ago with a Maxicrop root drench and they look fine so far. I sowed them in pots, then transplanted them at the 3-leaf stage into deeper pots and put them outside, then fed them a bit later on with Maxicrop before putting them into my raised bed. Dwarf French beans a no-show!

lazza · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2012, 14:19 »

Quote from: mumofstig on July 11, 2012, 18:06

Peas are great this year not much else though

I'm with you on that. Possibly my best year for peas ever (although I've only been growing them for 4 years!).

Other than that, only other successes are:

salad leaves, but even these are variable: rocket poor, mizuna excellent, red giant excellent, perpetual spinach excellent, watercress didn't germinate (unbelievable! too wet?!), lolla rossa OK)

herbs: my herb garden has gone a bit mad. Anyone know what to do with masses of sage??!

angelavdavis · « **Reply #17 on:** July 13, 2012, 23:46 »

Success:

- Mange tout
- Courgettes and summer squash
- Overwintered onions
- Strawberries
- Gooseberries
- Salad crops
- Sweetcorn doing OK (probs starting them off this year tho)
- Broad beans
- Runners and dwarf french are covered in flowers - yet to see them set
- Radishes
- herbs
- Carrots in half barrels are pretty good

disasters:
- overwintered shallots
- garlic
- redcurrants
- Cherries
- Apples
- Plums
- Peaches
- Pears
- Bok Choi, Spinach, lambs lettuce and chard - all gone to seed
- Potatoes (v slow)
- beetroot

Paul Plots · « **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2012, 00:59 »

Quote from: LilacSandy on July 11, 2012, 19:25

I have the bigest and best weeds I have ever grown this year, and the slugs are monumental.

Snap!!

Strawberries, a hefty crop, were beautiful (although lots on the compost heap) and potatoes (so far) not bad at all.

Best of all this year is the grass - lawns they'd be proud of in the Emerald Isle.

Carrots are getting there, beetroot a good size but not so sweet, parsnips doing wonderfully.
A bountiful crop of broad beans - tender too.

HHH · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2012, 07:43 »

Despite earlier worries and frantic replanting in early May, peas and broadbeans have come through splendidly and cropped well and taste delicious. Potatoes not quite so well - low yields and a little lacking in flavour - and am now anxiously studying the blight maps!

Most of my carrots were washed away/frozen out, but a few remain under netting and have replanted with parsnips which are producing plenty of foliage so fingers crossed. Onions too look good, of reasonavle size and firmness.

French climbers have germinated and are growing and flowering well - but only half of the runners, and those are still very low down the canes.

Otherwise, like everyone else, I'm avidly studying the market price of weeds!

New shoot · « **Reply #20 on:** July 14, 2012, 10:30 »

My only real pickings from outside so far have been mangetout peas, which are growing like triffids and still producing flowers even with the weather being as poor as it is

Overwintered shallots bolted a bit but still salvaged a fair few and the garlic was OK once lifted and cleaned of rust

Chard and winter brassicas coming along, and got a decent strawberry crop. Gooseberries not bad - not as many as last year, but given the cold and wet when they were in flower, not too bad.

Cordon apple trees at home laden

Had a poor crop last year but looking good so far this year

Nicki85 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 19, 2012, 16:15 »

I know it has been a rubbish start to the growing season weather wise but... i have had some really good crops so far

and I am sure others have as well...

for me-
First go with banana shallots, just got them up and I think a pretty good crop!
Onions are swelling nicely but not ready to come up yet

Rhubarb loves it

Lettuces are enjoying the rain...
Parsnips looking very happy
Golden cylinder beetroot is the biggest I have seen

First row of Vivaldi potatoes taken up and a pretty good crop
First courgette picked
Garlic (Autumn sown) bit small but all fully formed
Loads of mange tout!

The down side for me is SLUGS!!!! My broad beans have also been appalling.

Mrs Bee · « **Reply #22 on:** July 20, 2012, 18:39 »

Well we have had the first Charlottes from the bags and they are delicious.
Just hope the picture has worked.

the parsnips seem to be romping along(first time for these)
Celeriac doing well.
Beetroot are finally showing but only one big enough to eat.
Calabrese have heads
Cabbage seems OK
Had a few pathetic onions and rust ridden garlic
Had a sack full of broad beans
Most of the potatoes in the ground look OK
Some salad crops in the garden have been spared the ravages of the slugs and snails.
runners and French beans are creeping up the poles
and some of the courgettes have courgettes showing at last which is just as well 'cos it really goes against the grain buying ............y courgettes.

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