Mistakes, mishaps and miracles!

[Peanut]

I don't know if this is a mistake or a mishap but for some reason lots of my seedlings are ridiculously leggy!
I haven't changed anything, same set up as every other year yet this lot of French beans, brassicas, lettuces etc seem to think they have been grown in a mushroom shed!
It's really weird

I'll plant them all deeply and save what I can. If the lettuces make it that will be a miracle

[Mark Rand]

Don't know if it's a mistake or a challenge:- I sowed some Alderman pea seeds in the greenhouse bed. Might need to remove a couple of roof panes in a few weeks time.

[Containergardener]

Peanut I'm finding things just aren't growing.

Mark 🤣

[Peanut]

Peanut I'm finding things just aren't growing.

Mark 🤣

Same here, my main cherry tomatoes are still tiny. It's a weird growing year for me already

[Nicos]

Mistake…storing seeds in the barn in cardboard boxes…we must have several fat mice waddling around somewhere

[Peanut]

A combination of mistake and mishap. I have lost about 15+ tomato plants, 1 aubergine, 2 courgettes and all my lark sweetcorn in this heatwave, so far.
I have had more weird beans going on, coming up blind or not coming up at all. I also had 2 different squash which also came up blind, (blind is my term for seedlings which produce seed leaves only and then die.

All in all it is becoming a very tricky year.

[Andraste]

I have had more weird beans going on, coming up blind or not coming up at all. I also had 2 different squash which also came up blind, (blind is my term for seedlings which produce seed leaves only and then die.

I don't think there's a term for what some of my CFBs did.....

I chitted them first & then when they started sprouting I popped them into some of those plastic tubs supermarket mushrooms come in - probably not quite as deep as they'd like to be but deep enough to grow on.

Anyway, they all started showing above the soil but a couple looked really weird - not even a seed leaf to be seen, just a stalky bit. I thought to myself, 'Oh well, let's see what they do, probably dud seed/blind plants' (I had more than enough 'normal' looking ones plus spares for my needs).

About a fortnight & several inches of growth later I finally furtled out a few of the ones that were just stalks. Seems I must have got bored of fiddling when I planted them - I'd put some of the seeds in with the root sprout pointing up instead of down/horizontally & they weren't able to twist themselves about enough. My blind stalks were in fact the root & the poor things were doing their best to grow upside down

[Nicos]

^^^^ha ha ha!…. Easily done though