On 25/07/2012 08:51, mark wrote:
I don't know if it can be blamed on the weather but here's my report:

Pear trees (2): Hardly any pears
Plum trees (3): Hardly any plums

No pears at all, few plums. Both normally very productive.

Apples: Doing okay

Some apples - but 10% of a normal year.

Red currants: Much reduced crop

Black currants are only just coming ripe - not so many either.
(usually over by first week July)

Strawberries: Disappointing, down by a half.

Strawberries and blueberries are OK. One blueberry bush has no fruit.

Slugs: bumper crop!

Add snails to that. I had to replant new bedding plants as the slugs &
snails had completely devoured them (and all the slug pellets as well).

Anybody else experiencing similar?

Only plus side is the hanging baskets don't need watering so often.

Tomatoes are struggling, early lettuces bolted before there were any
warm salad days to eat them. Onions look small, weeds look big.

Courgette plants are refusing point blank to grow at all!

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Regards,
Martin Brown