Cutting my loses

[vixylix]

I'm not having a good year so far either GL - I don't think this crazy weather is helping anyone

BUT there's still plenty of time - things may improve yet!

[Penellype]

I think all of my onion sets are going to go to seed. Also have a variety of carrot (red samurai) that I think is going to to seed. I've never had a carrot go to seed before so I'm not 100%

Easy to tell if a carrot is going to seed. If it isn't the leaves all come from the bottom, near the root. If its going to seed they start to sprout from a stem which rapidly gets taller. Once this starts to happen the root will never get any bigger and will go hard and inedible.

[Snoop Puss]

I'm just massively behind, so have had to ditch some seedlings as simply too late for them to do well enough to justify watering them. Loads of things not sown either. And yes, there's always next year!

[Vince G]

Always interesting to see what is doing well in other parts of the country. Personally down in sleepy Suffolk it was so dry in April and my soil is so sandy at the allotment that any watering I did just wasn't going it, it was just sitting on the surface. So germination was haphazard. I had to make several sowings of certain things to get anywhere near a decent success rate. To sum up:

Salads are good (at the second attempt). Onions from seed and spring onions are terrible, sowed again 3 weeks ago and looking a bit better). French beans: lots of gaps in the rows. Carrots: first sowing early March doing well, just starting to eat them. Second sowing only just poking up.

Strawbs are terrible this year, I am going to make a raised bed for them this autumn. Parsnips looking promising, as is the celery. This year's experiment (soya beans as supplied by the mag) are looking good. First earlies dug up so far are not good. Beetroot looking good. Peas look fantastic, 2 x 20 foot rows absolutely chock full of pods, broadies nice but seem to be drooping and going yellow a bit quickly.

So I'm the same as everyone else, some great stuff, some terrible. Always fascinates me as to what is the crop we've all managed to avoid any problems with each year...if only we knew why.

[Small pumpkin]

Easy to tell if a carrot is going to seed. If it isn't the leaves all come from the bottom, near the root. If its going to seed they start to sprout from a stem which rapidly gets taller. Once this starts to happen the root will never get any bigger and will go hard and inedible.

Thank you Penellype. I had a feeling something wasn't quite right when the stem was thicker than the root Will be removing them today