I'll start........................I've actually had loads but the one that really irks me is, I planted 16 sunflowers in the garden, all at least 12" tall.........not 1 survived the slugs!!
Tomatoes. I didn’t have much compost so bulked it out with some 1 year old rotted manure. Turns out it had weed killer residue in it and the tomatoes all died 😢
My mature honeysuckle died. Probably a lack of water! Had hardly any plums this year, possibly the same lack of water. My iceberg rose was very sporadic in its flowering this year, all my other roses were fine😟. My tayberries were non existent (bloomin birds!) And hardly any blackberrries (bloomin kids!😂) i could go on....
Seeds - of 400 Aubretia....9. Berkheya purpurea 0 of 10, Anchusa capensis 'Blue Angel' 0 of 25. I'm off seeds. Cuttings Osteospurmum - first 8 complete failure (allegedly so easy!) but looks like I'm getting there now. Getting there slowly refining my technique with others.....
My apple tree, seems to have gone into bi annual fruiting. None this year and only 3 last year. Cucumbers and melons. Former was very bitter. Latter never really took off. Sunflowers planted out about 12 only 1 flowered.
Cherry tomatoes, a waste of time (I've binned the little green marbles now, and being newish to gardening I am kicking myself as I bought the plant so didn't even have the satisfaction of trying to grow from seed.
Just look at the weather we had - no wonder some things dipped below hopes and expectations. There were late frosts, an extremely wet winter, the warmest, sunniest, driest spring on record and the some very strong winds in mid summer.
I want to blame the weather and God for my miserable crop of cauliflowers but his finger is pointing at me. Also pear rust destroyed the crop on both of my pear trees and, as usual, it was Squirrels 211 Sig.Cotto 3 when it came to the plums.
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Cuttings Osteospurmum - first 8 complete failure (allegedly so easy!) but looks like I'm getting there now. Getting there slowly refining my technique with others.....
My passionflower won't stop growing and outgrowing its supports.
I did not to get nerine bulbs last winter and now am envying my neighbours' ones. And I still can't find any!
I have just potted some seeds of these for the first time, any idea what went wrong?