A good year?

[jackie j]

Potatoes, runner beans, onions, raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb, gooseberries, sweetpeas, cabbages, courgettes all good harvests. Eating Apple tree laden.
Broad beans = blackfly
Garlic = small
blueberrys = eaten by mouse ?
loganberrries = eaten by birds
Cherries = good blossom, no fruit

[Rabidbun]

Weird year.

Amazing strawberries, very early raspberries (second crop coming and confused as heck cause they are meant to be Autumn ones), tomatoes shaping up to be good (if blight stays away), cucumbers actually surviving.

Just got my first courgette, have yet to harvest french beans (most not even flowering yet) and a very very poor year for peas.

We had a two (3?) month dry spell (three small showers that wet the top half cm but nothing else) at from early March though, so am quite glad to get anything!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Everything as done well so far except spring bladdy onions and I have no idea why

Colin

[solway cropper]

It's funny how things tend to balance out over a season. You get poor results with one crop and a bumper harvest from another. Potato yields are down due to a lack of rain but legumes have done very well. Shallots all bolted but overwintered onions and small picklers are excellent. Soft fruit has been fantastic so far but tree fruits are well down on previous years, except for cherries which have so far given us nearly 6kg of fruit. Swings and roundabouts is the best description I can think of.

[susieq100]

If I am able to harvest something I have planted myself, it's a good year. But to echo what everyone else has said, it's a strange one. This time last year I was giving away runner beans because I could not pick, eat, freeze them fast enough. I am still waiting for my first crop - loads of flowers, some incipient beans but nothing I can eat yet.
Potatoes - good
Autumn planted onions and shallots - OK, shallots are a bit disappointing, but I like them for pickling
Spring planted onions - hoooge and still growing
Peas, I remembered to plant successionally and so they are steady and delicious
Beetroot, a bit slow and disappointing but appear to be romping away now
Cucumbers - I have a glut. I wander around to the neighbours with a cucumber in hand and they cower begging me to leave - "no more! We haven't finished the last one." I have searched the forums for recipes and have made a batch of bread and butter pickles. I found another enormous cuke in the greenhouse last night, hiding under some leaves at the back. More pickling!
My sweet peas have been great, colourful and wonderfully fragrant. They are the scent of summer for me, but that is probably a childhood memory.

[binley100]

Garlic .......rubbish
Shallots ...........okish got enough for pickling
onions .........some had to be chopped up for freezing
everything else seems to be coming along nicely , even the peas after I fleeced them and........
first year I've had tomatoes from outside at the lottie without them getting bilght .

[winstonwobble]

having a great year so far the onions have been fantastic with theshallots nearly asbig pots were great toms coming along nicely beetroot a tad disapointig but still pleanty of time biggest failure SWEETCORN cant seam to grow never mind theres always next year

[The Large One]

everything bar tomatoes this year has been excellent
don't know why but tom plants are looking good, loads of foliage but hardly any fruit
chillis are superb, have about 60 on the go, loads of different ones and all healthy and cropping well
lost all onions to white rot last year, took on a second plot this year and iv'e finally got onions and shallots...yipeeeee
moonlight runners have been picking for at least 3 weeks and courgettes, well, where we gonna put em....
asparagus bed planted in spring and spears left to grow so looking forward to a very minimal crop next year (have 20 crowns planted so i can risk 1 or 2 spears...LOL)

[StephenH]

Further to my previous post:
Apples and autumn raspberries - both heading for a very good harvest, especially the apples.

Harvested my elephant garlic and shallots the day before last: ok, but not as big, in either case, as I'd hoped from the size of the top-growth. Possibly harvested too soon: I went by what two books said, but the top growth was still green and healthy-looking, not dying down.

[gojiberry]

I think Solway Cropper has it exactly right, some you win and some you loose. Overall it has been a good year, and there has been plenty to put on the plate, with loads to come. Due to cold nights in June the runner and French beans were well behind and have only just started to give a good crop, moonlight has come out on top and is well ahead of other beans. Potatoes were hit and miss with total failure of Winston but harlequin and charlotte making up. Celeriac is a little small but time yet to grow. Parsnips looking brill, leeks starting to put on weight. Have had a cabbage available all year. Onions and garlic both done well. Greenhouse bulging and even the African egg plant has flowers on, just waiting to see if it is followed up with fruit.

Ian

[reetnproper]

Sweetcorn is the only real disaster this year. Pretty much everything else is looking, cropping and tasting good Have had more leek rust to deal with than in previous years but the leeks themselves look lush and healthy, as I've removed rust damaged leaves where seen (and I've crawled along my leek bed on hands and knees so I think I've 'seen' all there is and I'll keep on checking).

Reet
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[ukfapower]

Garlic was good - where I'd put it in a good place.
Onions rubbish but my first go. Had some shading and didn't water enough in April.
Bath tub of Pentland Javelins were prolific but strange. Floury. Have been using them for mash.
Have started on French and Runner beans, looks like we will be overwhelmed with runners soon.
Tomatoes started to ripen last week. Feels like they are rather late but looking plentiful.
Wish I'd planted more brassicas as cabbage whites haven't been too bad this year. Have a few nice Kale plants.
Broad Beans - started well but the mice wouldn't wait. Started putting cloches over but once again failed to get the quantity I'd like.
Sweetcorn looking good.
Put some baby leeks in in April and we are eating those now. Very tasty.
Courgettes and Patty Pans - too many in the space so a lot of fruit going mouldy but getting enough to keep us going
Squash, hard to tell. Have some fit plants but would like to see some bigger fruit.
Chillies and Banana peppers - all doing really well. Especially overwintered Jalapenos.

[Piggle]

Potatoes, shallots and garlic have been great.

Squashes - hard to tell , I've had one massive one bigger than my head and a lot of unproperly pollinated try hards!
Celeriac is rubbish but I probably didn't water it enough
Tomatoes - ok but trying to grow brandywine in a partly shaded greenhouse isn't a go-er

All the cauliflowers exploded skywards but I ate them anyway - I told my husband it was a new variety and he said that they tased nice!

[hamsterhead]

Not very good this year, many of the fruit and veg have been very reluctant to show and grow. On the bright side, my flower planting in containers and hanging baskets have been the best for years. So at least I've kept the bees and hover flies happy.

[jojo2910]

It's been the best year we've ever had, but then it's also our first year . We've had loads of peas and beans, few slugs or snails. We had no problem with butterflies/caterpillars until we took off the protections netting (whole other story) and there are few crops we've been disappointed in. We've learnt loads and now ready and waiting to put into practice next year. Just got to hope the moles that have taken residence under the raised beds find a new home next year.