Any successes so far this year?

Courgettes and squash have all sprouted, peas and sweetpeas too.. Tomatoes and french beans looking good!

Telephone pea seeds, pre-chitted then sown into guttering every single one is now a seedling and the spares I'd sown in pots I've given to our daughter.
Toms sown 20 seeds and ended up with 20 plants. given 4 away.
48 broad beans sown in loo rolls all 48 are now in the garden.
All of the above are from seeds I harvested and saved from last year.

Beetroot and chard I had problems with last year are all doing well so are my brassicas.

So I'm very happy.

Asparagus - its shown its spears when I've been around to collect them - yum yum.
A number of big tom plants looking good. Peas romping away. Multiple fat babys doing well.
I'm on top of things unlike most previous years....

I'll never be fully on top of things but I am a damm site more on top of things than i was this time last year. Once I get fully on top of things I'll probably move on to a new challenge anyway!
Bought very little seed this year relying on old stuff. So far its worked out ok with old seed giving at least a 75% germination.
Looking forward to growing on the Yacon, Vince tomatoes, Passion Fruit grown from a seed and a goodly selection of brassicas all hardening off at the moment.
Masses of chrysanth cuttings and a perennial bed I've just laid out should ensure household is supplied with a goodly ammount of cut flowers.

All in all, everything I have sown apart from Parsnips have germinated so can't complain really.

Forgot about them. Sowed four rows, got four parnips!

I don't feel like a headless chicken. Yes, there is lots to do and lots of juggling but I am managing. I am even going through the seed boxes and putting stuff back as already done. Which bearing in mind I have loads of flower seeds this year as well, is rather good.

Another break through. I am being selective with plants and binning those that don't make the grade.
I have brassicas in with extra lime so fingers crossed this does the job.
Garlic, shallots and potato onions are all looking really good.
Although frost affected the fruit crop it is still looking promising on the whole.
Have some really strong healthy sweet pea plants this year. In the last couple of years they have struggled and often been completely done in by slimies.
First year on chrysanth. cuttings and most have been good.
Finally got a stone fruit tree graft to take.
Most of my peppers germinated this year. (gotta love heated props.)

Last year my yacon was slow to do anything - I had 2 plants out of 3. I kept the rhizomes to propagate from. This year it's growing away happily on the staging and is now trying to push the citrus on the shelf above over. Same as last year, one hasn't come to anything yet - the other 30 are all growing strong (I gave away a dozen). (on a down note - as I wasn't sure I yould get anything from the rhizomes I put an early order in for some more plants so I should get 6 more coming in the post this month. However these will be red skinned, mine are white skinned so I can see if one grows better than another - and possible have a total of 720 plants next year - YIKES)

My dead citrus have decided that they're not going to stay dead and regenerated leaves.

My toms haven't went leggy like last year - downside to this is that they're shorter than last year so I can't pot them up yet. This includes my black cherries which is the first time I've saved seed for toms so fingers crossed,

A packet of sweet corn I got on my first allotment plot (on my 3rd and 4th now) germinated 17 out of 19 seeds. This means I can reuse the labels without writing them out again.

Babington leeks and elephant garlic both look as if they are going to set me up a perennial leek bed each - the ones I've eaten are growing on nicely. Some of the other perennial leeks are doing fine, but I don't think that they'll be productive enough for long term perennial beds.

I've blossom on the apples (except for the Granny Smith) and cherries. If they take then I might get a nice crop. The soft fruit are doing fantastically as well (although I won't confuse everyone by mentioning summer or autumn raspberries).

I rediscovered my skirret plants and they're alive and coming back nicely. Some of my scorzonera look on form to being harvested for a third year on the trot for the same plants. The Sweet Cicely is coming on and throwing up new stems. Looks as if my perennial root crops are on track.

I've got trays and trays of Dahlias growing for the plot.

I'm pleased with the way my potatoes have coped with being covered with fleece and plastic for the cold weather - they seem fine, and the earlies are nearly ready to start harvesting.

January sown tomatoes have huge trusses of green fruit on the sitting room windowsill - I've tied them to the window handles in the hope that it will stop them from ending up on the floor!

After various experiments with several different types of strawberry pots, bags and towers, some of which are supposedly self watering, I've got the biggest and happiest looking strawberry plants I've ever grown - one lot in a Hozelock self watering planter and the others in 2 litre pots on self watering trays. The plants in the pots are more than twice the size of the same variety in a tower pot slice, and the ones in the pots were transplanted out of a similar slice in the autumn.

Courgettes and Broccoli have germinated well.

Sun gold Toms which I did early are top notch. Over a foot tall already and healthy.

Peppers and Chillis done for first time doing well upto now.

Regards......Rob

I gambled with an early sowing of toms and it seems to have been worth it. Buds on several of the plants already.
Lots of blossom on the fruit trees and bushes and its looking like a good year for fruit.
Broad beans are flowering and peas on the Douce Provence.
Lots of flowers including some begonias and geraniums that have overwintered
Quite content with the way the growing year is progressing

I'm pleased with all my veggies so far. Fingers crossed for it to continue.

Planted broad beans in November in one of my raised beds. I have had to pinch out the tops at 5 feet! Plenty of tiny pods and plenty of flowers still to convert.

David

I'm happy with all my tender stuff - still trawling it back and forth to the greenhouse every morning and night though.