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    What's doing well....and what's not!

    I was wondering how everyone is getting on with their crops. What's growing very well? What are you most proud of?

    My chillis are going great guns. My spinach is romping away. Huge leaves. My pak choi is not! It's getting eaten by something. Small holes all over them all. I can't grow cucumbers!,!

    Loving my allotment!
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    Going well:
    Peas, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Toms, Cabbage (did lose 4 to rootfly though) Brussels, Potatoes, Japanese Onion, Red berry, Strawberrys.

    Not going well:
    Chillies , Red onion (half bolting)

    Comming slowly:
    Carrots, Parsnips, leeks, Beans.

    Not a bad year for me so far!
    To really be free, You need to be free in the mind.

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    • #3
      With the sunny hot weather coming early this year, no late frost, not too wet like last year.... I am finding everything has come on fantastically. Its only my second year and I guess it helps my raised beds have settled now (they were newly made last year) and I thought more about where the sun is and planted better.

      Going well:
      Peas, Lettuce, Courgette, Rocket, Onions, Broad Beans, Sweetcorn, French Beans, Beetroot, Spring Onions, Strawberrys (literally loads and loads), redcurrants, new potatoes.

      Not too good:
      Tomatoes in the greenhouse, first year guess I need to learn, peppers, aubergines (again all greenhouse), carrots in pots.

      Coming slowly so cant say:
      Parsnip, Celeriac, Carrots, Autumn Raspberries, Leeks (really slow), Calabrese

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      • #4
        Great idea for a thread Newton, it's so interesting to read everyone's achievements and progress, good and bad!

        This is my first year growing so I guess everything is a bit of a trial. Key point: I'm enjoying it!

        Going well:
        Proud of my tomatoes which are just starting to flower, beetroot, nasturtiums, carrots (I think!), potatoes, sweet peppers (not huge, no flowers yet, but promising)

        Not too good:
        Pak choi bolted but I have left it to try and keep seed (and like you Newton something has nibbled holes all over it), now rainbow chard is bolting, baby spinach, spring onions

        Coming slowly:
        Second sowing of cherry toms - don't know why they're not as wonderous as the first lot!
        Beans and snap peas

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        • #5
          Gold star: strawberries, onions, runner beans, early potatoes, crown prince squash, sugar snap peas

          Could do better: sweetcorns and minicorn (minicorn blasted by gales last week, still recovering), butternut squash, melons

          Failed: gherkins (have planted more), parsnips (on second sowing, first lot were a no show!)

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          • #6
            Radishes, courgette, one climbing bean, borage, rocket, cabbage, cauliflowers (but for how long I dont know!).

            Spring onions, baby sweetcorn, aubergine, tomatoes doing ok ish but probably very behind everyone else's.

            French beans have got wind burnt leaves and looking a bit ropey.

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            • #7
              going well
              onions, cabbage (nearly ready), potatoes (had 4 cookings so far), strawberries (had loads and super sweet), salad leaves.

              going slowly
              parsnips (lost loads), leeks, dwarf beans
              my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

              hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is a whole lot better

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              • #8
                Going well: tomatoes, peppers, cukes, gherkins, lettuce, rocket, potatoes, broad beans, runner beans, borlotti beans, peas, beetroot, celeriac, carrots, brassicas, leeks, onions, turnips, radishes, raspberries, rhubarb, herbs, squash plants - not yet cropping

                Going wrong: shallots - soon to be shall nots and never again
                Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                • #9
                  Doing well : Strawberries, Climbing french beans(blue lake (thanks pip) and cobra), Potatoes (Aaran pilot and Pentland Javelin), Radish (breakfast), Tomatoes (Gardeners delight and Market), Pepper California wonder and Chillies Jalapeno.

                  Not so well: Scarlet emperor runner beans, Defender Courgette, Boltardy beetroots, Brusell sprouts (forget name), Carrots (early nantes) and blueberry (Bluecrop).

                  Downright disasters : Parnsips, Rasperry canes. Bright Lights chard (just up and died at 2")
                  My new Blog.

                  http://jamesandthegiantbeetroot.blogspot.com

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                  • #10
                    Going okay - tomatoes, potatoes, shallots, peas, carrots, parsnips, leeks, beetroot (all types), kale and burdock.

                    Iffy, very iffy looks like it's going to be a disaster - peppers (chilli and sweet - too cold and wet), beans, blueberries (strong winds), strawberries (where is the sunshine?)

                    Undecided - the rest of the fruit bushes, sugar pie pumpkins and BN squash.
                    Last edited by FROSTYFRECKLE; 01-06-2011, 01:54 PM.

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                    • #11
                      Going well:
                      Gooseberries, radishes, carrots, parsnips, beetroot, turnips, runner beans, onions, potatoes, Kentucky Wonder Wax & Cosse Violetto French beans, spring onions, courgette, parsley, rosemary, pepper, oregano

                      Too early to tell:
                      Cauliflower, swede, 2nd rhubarb, liquorice, leeks, gherkins, cucumber, chives, thyme, red onion

                      Struggling a bit:
                      1st rhubarb, Trail of Tears French beans, celery (in its second year so no idea what'll happen to it!), mint

                      Dying:
                      Sage, lavender

                      Tomatoes and chillies all growing well but started a bit late so only just flowering - flowers not open yet.
                      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                      • #12
                        Everything is going great guns except (there's always one) spring onions. The worst bit is I have no idea why.

                        Colin
                        Potty by name Potty by nature.

                        By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                        We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

                        Aesop 620BC-560BC

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                        • #13
                          Most things are going ok at the moment, though my blackcurrant bushes have just developed some sort of filament red rusty colour (they seem to get something different every year! ) on the leaves.
                          Peas are a bit slow to start, but they were a bit rootbound when I put them in initially, which won't be helping!

                          My french beans have yet to germinate and poke their heads up from the soil (I direct planted this year and will probably regret it) and the one that has seems very slow growing for some reason.

                          Coriander, parsley, strawberries and mizuna seem to be the best crops at the moment.
                          Last edited by Rabidbun; 01-06-2011, 04:05 PM.

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                          • #14
                            Doing well:

                            Spuds, salads, courgettes, broad beans

                            Sulking: French and runner beans

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                            • #15
                              Having a ball in the Greenhouses
                              Tomatoes, peppers, chillies and aubergines - all coming into flower now.

                              Just getting their act together in the greenhouse
                              Cucumbers

                              Not Enjoying the Cold Wind
                              Sweetcorn, Outdoor Cukes, Borlotti and French Dwarf Beans

                              Suffering from the Dry WeatheR
                              Red Onions - attempting to bolt. Rhubarb - in a tub

                              Going Like the Privy Door When the Plague's in Town
                              Spuds - Thank God for that little drop of rain we had last week
                              Peas,Mange Tout, Runner Beans, Sturton Onions, Garlic, Courgettes, Salad, WEEDS...I could go on....
                              When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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