Originally Posted by rustylady

My molluscs are doing exceedingly well

Perhaps you should try to farm some?

The French seem particularly taken with them

Originally Posted by Samurailord

Perhaps you should try to farm some?

The French seem particularly taken with them

The French are welcome to the little bu@@ers

My peas, broad beans, lettuce and kale are all doing well, but my 4 outdoor cucs have drown.

I am quietly confident I will have around 6-8 strawberries at home in the next day or two - if the slugs dont get them first. It is my best year for onions on my shared plot, fingers crossed and am hoping my garlic there is fine but it looks a little rusty. My overwintered broad beans are doing fine and I planted some more in the spring which are coming along nicely. Given the weather I am pleased with what is growing on at our new half plot. The raspberries I moved at the 'wrong' time have all taken. Hope a lull in the rain will happen so I can get more stuff planted out. OH says our spuds should be ready round about 25th July. Heaven knows where we are going to put them all, he went a bit mad and planted loads. All in all I think it is going to be a hit and miss year because of the weather. I lost all of my first cucumbers, I've given up on sweetcorn and am nurturing the courgette with a broken neck so fingers crossed for everyone that we'll end up with something edible.

My weeds are doing exceedingly well..........

Onions, shallots and potatoes are going great guns. Lettuce and pak choi are doing well.
Parsnips were slow to come up but are doing ok now. Courgettes, pumpkins and tomatoes are slower than usual but doing ok.
Beans, sweetcorn were doing well until they were eaten by slugs.
I have one last sowing of some brassicas left after 4 attempts!! 2 my fault, 2 rabbits fault!.
Peppers and chillis......hmmm what peppers and chillis?

Haven't been on here for ages! Whats doing well? Potatoes seem to be thriving, some of the onions and garlic are OK. Sprouts seem to be loving the rain.
Pumpkins, seem slow as do the Tomato plants.

But the weeds are everywhere! Thinks its a combination of not being able to get out to do as much weeding as is required. Can't help feeling that some sun should be happening....

Originally Posted by binley100

My weeds are doing exceedingly well..........

snap!

everything is taking a very long time to get going .... the brassicas are doing ok now they're outside. even though it's cold and wet .... the fruit is doing well, gooseberry bushes are really loaded up, the new blackcurrant bush is fruiting .... spuds have put on a lot of growth, more than i've seen before .... garlic, parsnips and carrots looking great .... some of the original salads are doing fine ....

loads of other stuff is still in the greenhouse .... courgettes etc .... hoping they survive the cold spell this week ....

We had such a short summer last season. The tomatoes hardly got going before the frosts hit. And the pumpkins well they are tiny. The taters did ok considering it was our first lot. The lettuce was fabulous all summer, as were the spring onions and the courgette - so many zuchinni's for one plant. The leeks are still struggling on. And another one raised it's head this week! The green cabbage are decimated by holes but the purple seems to be going well. It's the same here with chard/silverbeet the red ribbed one seems to grow like crazy but the white ribbed one is pretty hard to get going.

Lettuce, radish, peas, shallots, onions and garlic are all growing well, though I'm only harvesting the lettuce and radish as yet. Carrots are very slow as are the spring onions. The first early potatoes have been in forever and have very poor top growth but the second earlies look wonderful. I think the frost has 'done for' my first earlies.