Whats doing well?

[kentishgal]

This is such a depressing year for us newbies (is it the weather or are we just rubbish at GYOing???) but does anyone want to share any successes they have had so far??

(it might cheer us up abit!!)..

For me its def spinach!! Whilst everything else sits there and sulks in a sodden bedraggled slump my spinach is looking beautiful. It seems to be never ending no matter how much I pick and luckily I do love me some spinach!!

[rustylady]

My PSB did brilliantly due to the extra rain, but the overwintering onions have all bolted. Broad beans are looking OK at the moment. Apart from that the only things doing well are the grass on the lawn and the bladdy weeds.

[Chocolate8me]

There are certain plants I thought would thrive & they haven't (babycorn, carrots and spring onions) but I seem to be in with a bit of luck with my mangetout which are flowering, so are my courgettes, tomato plants but best of all has to be my radishes. They are easy & quick to grow and taste gorgeous

[Peas'n'Kews]

Spinach is rubbish! but my peas and broad beans are going great guns and we had the first pea-picking on Sunday.

Lettuce doing well, as are cabbages, and the runner beans are, err, running away!

Toms are slow, but then we don't have a greenhouse.

so far, its been an OK year. Weird but OK

[Nicos]

Leeks, shallots,sorrel ( til it bolted) rhubarb, goosegogs are coming on a treat.Raspberries and strawberries ( til the voles /mice got them)
Broad beans are looking good now that we've pinched out the blackfly covered growing tips!

oh- and of course grass and weeds!

We've made a couple of new borders this April- and they're coming on a treat with very little attention.

Ox-eye daisys and forget me nots and English marigolds are superb!

You win some, you lose some- every year is different...you're not rubbish kentishgal- you just have to try to get used to losing some of your crops!

[kentishgal]

I havent lost my optimism yet!! So far nothing is rotten or badly infested/eaten by bugs, its all just sitting there patiently waiting for some sunshine!!
I figure nature knows what its about...after all I dont want to go out in this blimmin awful weather so why should my fruit and veggies! Im giving it another month before I worry about it!

[eirish]

I only got the (badly overgrown) garden in late March and I'm up north, so no veg ready to harvest yet...but I've been impressed with the plants I started indoors. Runner and French beans, sweet peas, peas, cucumbers, courgettes, squash, calabrese, Florence fennel, romanesco cauliflower, chard, chillies, parsley, basil, dill, have all grown happily away in my windows. The advantage to not having a greenhouse/polytunnel/blowaway is that I've not lost any of my seedlings to the weather! I've started planting 'em out this week, and so far so good. The herb plants I've bought seem to be settling in nicely - even been able to harvest some already.

The peas, carrots, spring onions and lettuce I sowed direct are coming on, but they've been sooooo slooooow to get started and I am Impatient! However, nothing's been a complete disaster so far, touch wood.

[SarzWix]

Nothing on my plot is doing well with the exception of molluscs and horsetail. This is the most rubbish year I've ever had.

[rustylady]

Nothing on my plot is doing well with the exception of molluscs and horsetail. This is the most rubbish year I've ever had.

My molluscs are doing exceedingly well in spite of being regularly chucked into buckets of salty water. Where on earth are they all coming from?

[Samurailord]

For me the two successes of this year so far have got to be broccoli (both purple sprouting and tenderstem) and rhubarb. It also looks like it may be another good year for the blackcurrant - lots of lovely little green berries waiting to ripen.

Some of the herbs are doing well, but everything else is just not trying!

One raspberry is about 3 foot tall and has a handful of berries on it, the other is just about 6 inches out of the pot.

I still have high hopes for my tomatoes - none have been nibbled at as yet, and I am also trying an upside-down planter this year as an experiment.

My potatoes aren't really putting on much foliage, and those that do are being attacked by snails every night. I have given a couple of hundred free swimming lessons, so the only ones left now tend to be small so maybe my potatoes will now have a bit of a chance?

Andy

[Samurailord]

My molluscs are doing exceedingly well

Perhaps you should try to farm some?

The French seem particularly taken with them

[rustylady]

Perhaps you should try to farm some?

The French seem particularly taken with them

The French are welcome to the little bu@@ers

[Bren In Pots]

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

[dominic10]

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.

[binley100]

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