Tales of woe - 2016

[bramble]

We all seem to be suffering gardening woes this year. What with the wet weather and all the bugs waiting to eat what we have worked so hard to produce.
Gardening is a steep learning curve but you will have much more experience next year.

[Marb67]

I am in a dilema because all my toms, very healthy they are, are in the greenhouse. When the sun is out I need to open the door and window otherwise it gets too hot but that could let blight in.

What would you do ?

[Bigmallly]

Dilemma indeed Marb, you don't want to cook your Toms so I would open the doors & windows.

[Marb67]

I absulutley hate this muggy, humid weather that seems to have dominated this summer. Slugs,snails and aphids and other bugs are rife, especially after a mild winter. We need a good, hard big freeze this winter to clense the garden.

Other woes

Snails have found my only peas in pots and one cosmos that were doing well and stripped them. Peas this year have been impossible to get pods from. Bingo is supposed to be heavy cropper in container when in fact is is rubbish. I have to keep them netted from sparrows but they still show no pods.

French beans flowers falling off and no beans as yet. Keeping fed and watered to no avail.

[bearded bloke]

I am in a dilema because all my toms, very healthy they are, are in the greenhouse. When the sun is out I need to open the door and window otherwise it gets too hot but that could let blight in.

What would you do ?

Hang some fleece in the window & doorway openings ?

[Marb67]

Haven't got any fleece. Compromised and opened the door but not the window. Only sunny spells here so won't bake. Walled garden so hopefuly blight wont get in as easy.

[Scoot]

Any ideas whats going on with my PSB seedlings. They germinate fine, then die.

[Penellype]

Any ideas whats going on with my PSB seedlings. They germinate fine, then die.

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Too hot or too wet? I find PSB are very fussy and much harder to grow than say cucumbers.

[Scarlet]

Haven't got any fleece. Compromised and opened the door but not the window. Only sunny spells here so won't bake. Walled garden so hopefuly blight wont get in as easy.

You may not get blight but you may end up with botrytis...open the lot up, let the air flow through or you'll have more problems.

[Scarlet]

My tales of woe...I now have a rat or rats in GH2 I have over 30 tomato plants in there and it's eating all the ripe ones and nibbling the trusses off. I really could cry.

[Dorothy rouse]

Oh help!

Been away for just a week, on my top balcony in house I have about 25 tomato plants, some in baskets, my kind neighbour watered them for me! When I looked this morning the 'saucers' that they stand in were overflowing with water! They've gone mad! I removed lots of leaves and tried to tip some if the water out, they need a feed, but obviously can't as they are waterlogged!

Help! Will they be ok do you think?

Went to check out allotment ! Runner beans doing great, 6 huge marrows, all salad stuff has gone to seed, some stuff has died, and the raspberries are rubbish and beginning to die back already. Brocolli has run to seed also, and something is eating the sprouts!

Not a good year!

[Marb67]

Well all my peas, Bingo and Early Onward which are supposed to give high yields have been c**p. Had to net them because of sparrows and now tiny baby snails all over them.


And my chard and beetroot are also pathetic. had to also cover those with green netting because of leaf miner etc. So much growing in the garden you can't actually see because it has to be covered. Absolutely depressing being limited in such a small garden with limited sunlight. Can't get on the allotment list as it's about 18 years long.

As for square foot gardening - overrated. has turned out a poor to average harvest at best despite using the soil guideline.

Carrots still forking despite sieved, fine compost.

[Penellype]

Wasps eating the remnants of the strawberries that have not already been destroyed by frost or mould or maggots. Over 100 strawberry plants have produced about 4 decent bowls of fruit all summer.

[jacob]

Peas eaten by mice(?)
Tomatoes a month (or more) behind schedule)
Lettuce failing to germinate
Something ate the redcurrants (again)
Kohlrabi mown down by slugs and snails
Bit of allium white rot
Rocket died.

And I've run out of space in the greenhouse. But then I always run out of space in the greenhouse.

Funny year. On the surface everything looks good, then I think about the crops and it clearly isn't.

[happyhumph]

Birds ate majority of blackcurrants while I was in hospital
kale, romanesco, cabbage, pak choi eaten by slugs
Botrytis on peppers