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Thread #147702   Message #3425395
Posted By: Penny S.
24-Oct-12 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening 2012, Successes & Failures?
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2012, Successes & Failures?
Runner beans excellent until the last few weeks when the blackfly found them, but that only means I get black slime when picking - there's still a few more to come.
Courgettes not bad, I could keep up with the supply - at least one more to come.
Watercress OK, and would have been better if I hadn't eradicated some to make space for the
Celery which was dire and has, I think, succumbed to a blight.
Potatoes - some good, some blighted.
Tomatoes - blight again, but a few nice ones.
Ridge cucumber - a new veg for me, replacing the butternut squash which the mollusca devoured.
Lettuce -slugs & snails
Various other brassica things - slugs & snails
Carrots and parsnips, some OK, mostly gone to the mollusca
Beetroot - vanished.
Blackberries brilliant, first year of cropping in this garden, and I expect better next year.
Peaches - small but very sweet. Must spray for peach leaf curl.

Overall, not a good year with the damp but not bad for a southern UK small garden facing NW with a 6 foot fence and a three story terrace to the SE. The veggie bit gets the sun from 10 am in the summer.

I've a few kale, brussels, cabbage and swede which have survived the molluscs so far, though chewed, and I'm hoping that with the cold weather they'll be able to give me some leaves which aren't lacey.

Penny