On 31 Aug, 13:41, furlow wrote:
Hi,

I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
done?

An average year in the garden, stuff is a bit late as I planted late,
we had late frosts here. (Herefordshire) We had a dry spell but I
have no water meter. Greenhouse tomatos good. Melons good. Peppers
poor, aubergines failure.
Celery poor but my fault. Carrots good. beetroot good, potatos poor.
Beans excellent. Sweetcorn good but buggered up by my enemy, the mole.
Pumpkin, well early days yet. Apples,pears, peaches looking good.
Plums average. Damsons poor.
Apricots walnuts mulberry failed.