Moonraker wrote in -
september.org:

I hope that the weather pundits who forecast that we are in for a number
of years of Winters like this one are wrong. I don't know how badly
others have been affected but my Leeks, brussel sprouts and purple
sprouting broccoli have been killed by it, the only survivors in the
vegetables has been the spring cabbage. How many of my numerous flowers
in pots have survived it is too early to tell.

Is it the weather pundits?
Sir Patrick Moore predicted this and said also that it may last for 5 or 6
years due mostly to sunspots.(a bit like floaters in the eye)

Goodness me I have had the same failures as you have had. And some more.

It's a thing we have to live with, sadly. And it may be that Sir PM is
wrong and it is the weather pundits who are wrong also. We simply do not
know, but I know who I am putting my money on!

It is really frustrating, isn't it.

Baz