What's going on here??

[Peaches2018]

Hiya Mumsnet

I'm wondering what's eating my poor raspberries! I've tried planting sunflowers in the same patch before and within days all the leaves were gone!! The same happened now with the raspberries and I'm getting annoyed!
Also is there anything wrong with our plums or are a few just rotten?? Don't want anything bad to spread through the tree.
Thanks very much

Or plums went the same way, although the tree is fine. There was a similar question on Gardeners QT radio 4. The experts seemed to think it was early damage to the fruit by wind, hail or rain.
It seems to have been a poor year for plums, where we are.

@Beebumble2 really?? We thought we had a lot less this year in our tree and we need to trim it properly too late autumn I think, but a lot of people just told us you've got a good year and a bad year

The sunflower will almost certainly have been slugs.

Raspberries lose all their leaves in winter. At the moment, on my plants, all the canes which have fruited are losing their leaves, and I have just pruned them back to the base. The new canes which grew this year will lose their leaves over the next month, but will re-leaf next year and bear fruit. That said, your raspberry doesn't look healthy. the leaves are drooping, which usually means water isn't getting through from the roots, either because the soil is too dry, or because the roots have been damaged or rotted in soil that is too wet.

Plum - quite usual to have some of them rot - damage, wet weather etc. Carefully remove the rotted ones so the rot doesn't spread to the ones they are touching.

@MereDintofPandiculation sorry for the late reply! Thanks a lot!! I got rid of the bad ones and I think we did save a few good ones because of that. Do you have any idea how I can safely grow sunflowers coming year without slugs munching on them? I think you need really really deep pots to grow them right?
A few of the raspberries in the patch where they were from originally looked a bit yellow too but most of them looked okey. I think the roots got damaged as I moved them but I hope the raspberries that fell might go on and grow in that patch. I poured some extra plant feed and bone, blood and something mixture on that patch too and raked that in properly too in the last few days. May that'll help??
The only thing I haven't messed up is my strawberry plants in the garden they grow like mad here!!!

Do you have any idea how I can safely grow sunflowers coming year without slugs munching on them? I've never managed it! Two things I find -

1)slugs are more attracted to young plants and young growth, so if you can start things off in a slug-free environment, you can sometimes plant them out later. I start runner beans in a big tub in the greenhouse and move them outside when they're 6 ft tall and flowering.

2. Slugs like soft succulent growth - therefore don't grow things too "soft" - don't be over generous with the water, let them toughen up a bit.

Yellow often indicates under-feeding so your measures should have sorted that. Raspberries are susceptible to virus disease which shows up as yellow and green mottling on the leaves. It reduces yield, so recommendation is to remove affected plants, and plant replacements in a different bit of the garden.