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Paul Luton[_2_] · 01-10-2012, 09:41 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 01/10/2012 10:41, wrote:
Broad beans - good
our too
Runner beans - awful (slugged to nothing)
First sowing eaten. 2nd try still producing.
French beans - awful (slugged to nothing)
Again 2nd attempt gave good crop. (plenty in freezer)

Courgettes - awful (slugged to nothing
2 out of 5 survived - a few fruit.
Pumpkins - awful (slugged to nothing)
Butternut - awful (slugged to nothing)
Brilliant this year
Patty pans - poor (mostly slugged, 1 plant survived to produce a late fruit)
Peas - ok (would have been better if we'd stayed on top of picking!)
Mange tout - ok (ditto as peas - had some nice purple ones)
Eaten by something. A few pickings.

Carrots - awful (slugged to nothing)
2nd and 3rd sowings reasonable. Little CRF this year.
Onion - ok (significant amount of white rot)
Not bothered due to white rod.
Leeks - ok (going well, hard to call atm)
Likewise

Potatoes - ok (but mostly still underground as it has been too hard to dig!)
Not bad - a bit slug eaten.
Tomatoes - really good (indoor and out, mostly still going strong)
Not bad - not brilliant.
Chard - very good (first year, looks like we have more than we can ever eat!)
Pathetic - one seedling out of zillians.

Raspberries - very good (best year for these ones yet)
Not very good.
Strawberries - hit and miss
Plentiful
Blackcurrants - poor (were goign well, then shrivelled on the stem!)
Plentiful
Whitecurrants - good (young plant, but best year yet)
Redcurrants - very good (still picking them!)
OK
Gooseberries - poor (few and far between, although the ones we got were good)
Pretty Good
Apples - so-so (nice, but not a heavy crop)
Pretty good cooker. Eaters only 1 cordon of 4 had a good crop.

Probably missed loads of stuff.