Veg growers - whats been your best and worst this season?

[meltedmarsbars]

My best: sweetcorn or pumpkins

Worst: peas - just never got myself organised.

What were yours?

[taffetacat]

worst: courgettes - planted on a slope that was too free draining, not enough water

best: borlotti and broad beans

[highriggs]

worst: radishes and spinach

best: mange tout and mini cucumbers

[WynkenBlynkenandNod]

Best - rainbow chard, sweetcorn, butternut squash and cucumbers.

worst - peas and pumpkins

[aJumpedUpPantryBoy]

Best - peas and courgettes

Worst cucumbers and pumpkins

[sandripples]

Best - courgettes, French beans and salad leaves

Worst - carrots and beetroot - I planted too close together.

[funtimewincies]

Best - sweetcorn, pumpkins and (so far ) sprouts.

Worst - potatoes. Low yields, slug and wireworm .

[MrsThisIsTheCadillacOfNailguns]

Best-tomatoes,best year ever,chllies,peppers,aubergines,courgettes,cucumbers,and physalis.
Worst-pumpkins and melons all rotted,french and runner beans never got going.

[stressedHEmum]

Best - tomatoes (actually got piles of red ones this year and enough green ones to feed the world with green tomato relish ) and beans.

Worst- courgettes and squash, blasted things got blossom end rot and then powdery mildew

Carrots, beets and broccoli did well too, but cabbages are fairly caterpillar eaten.

[WillbeanChariot]

Best- beetroot and spinach. And potatoes, not a bad return on my first attempt.

Worst- chard. Just didn't happen. Also carrots and parsnips, think I have the wrong type of soil.

[meltedmarsbars]

So we didn't all succeed/fail on the same things then!

[inthesticks]

Best - chillis, tomatoes, garlic, onions.
Worst - cucumbers,peppers and runner beans ( though they did perk up later in the season and I have some sown in August that are just coming on).

My courgettes were a failure because I forgot them

[doozle]

Best, courgettes - extremely prolific and still going. Also good beets, mangetout, perpetual spinach, potatoes, cabbages, tomatoes, lettuce

Worst - squash, sweetcorn, raspberries

[meltedmarsbars]

Doozle - your 3 worst have been fantastic for me! (leicestershire)

[doozle]

Strange, isn't it. Did you have a lot of rain mmb?

[Whoamireally]

Best = courgettes and corn. Worst = my onions and garlic - still do not know what I did wrong.

[liath]

Best - tomatoes (after swearing I'd never grow them ever again they were fantastic this year). French beans and peas were good, courgettes OK, strawberries disapponting but am very chuffed with my new Japanese Wineberry bush - yum. Carrots & coriander bolted. Free salad from the BBC dig-in website was prolific.

[frostyfingers]

Best: peas, courgettes, cucumbers, lettuces, yellow tomatoes & carrots

Medium: french beans, potatoes - ok, just not enough probably due to underwatering at beginning.

Worst: broad beans, red tomatoes

My fingers are crossed for my purple sprouting broccoli which is waging war and just winning against the blardy monster slugs.......

[Flowergarden1]

Best: broad beans, tomatoes, onions, potatoes

Worst: sweetcorn, peas

[UptoapointLordCopper]

Best: cucumbers. They are still going!

Worst: almost everything else... [hsad]

[MumsieNonna]

Best: Swiss Chard, lambs lettuce and parsnips (magnificent even though I say so myself).
Worst: tomatoes (blight in early September), cucumbers (not enough water), runner beans (too many blardy slugs in early summer).

[IWishIWasAFrog]

Best: tomatoes, planted, 'Ferline', NO disease at all, this has never happened to me before! Sweet, meaty tomatoes. Chilli's grown in tomato growbags, they looked like little christmas trees in August!

Worse: just couldn't win with lettuce, tried a few.

[Keziahhopes]

Best: peas, courgettes, cherry tomatoes in borders, onions, blackcurrants, strawberries

Worst: butternut squash, chillies, cabbage (caterpillars again despite netting!), blueberries

Ok were potatoes, beans, raspberries