What is happening to all my plants?! Please help!

Hi everyone,
this is my first year growing veg, fruit, and flowers, and frankly it's going terribly. I live up in the hills of North Wales so it has been stupid cold and awful weather until the first of June when suddenly it got really hot. I've sown everything from seed and needless to say, I'm actually pretty upset how badly this has all gone. What am I doing wrong? Our aim is to feed ourselves as best we can so I do need to get good at this lol.
Not a single pea, eating or sweetpea plant, has matured, all are very short, stunted, gone pale, and look as if they've also now been nibbled. The stunted and pale happened first, none seem to grow past 8 inches, and most less than that. I've some pics below - any ideas?


My green sprouting broccoli (which I understood was one that grows quicker than the purple, all of my purple sb has died) looks like it's bolted, I think that's gone to flower, and they are only about 8inches tall. Eaten to bits as well - I'm guessing this may be caterpillars and therefore I need netting, but what about the awful stunted growth again? Too little water? Wrong earth? (planted in the ground with some manure that was added about three months ago as I've no garden compost).
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Something appears to be eating my lavender - all the leaves are browning and have loads of holes in them, it looks dreadful unhealthy. I've watered it today due to the week of very warm weather and no rainfall - its been a few weeks since it was last watered - too little water an issue?


My french beans, and my Zinnias, had been super green and growing well then all of a sudden turned yellow and unhealthy looking - half the beans seem to have just died.
Zinnia
French beans

Even my poor blueberry plant is taking a bad hit - looks half eaten as well as poorly otherwise, what is going on here? I'm growing it in a pot of ericaceous compost, is it underwatered, underfed?


Any help or advice greatly appreciated ! I'm at a loss now and don't want to keep making the same mistakes.
Cheers,
Goldy
this is my first year growing veg, fruit, and flowers, and frankly it's going terribly. I live up in the hills of North Wales so it has been stupid cold and awful weather until the first of June when suddenly it got really hot. I've sown everything from seed and needless to say, I'm actually pretty upset how badly this has all gone. What am I doing wrong? Our aim is to feed ourselves as best we can so I do need to get good at this lol.
Not a single pea, eating or sweetpea plant, has matured, all are very short, stunted, gone pale, and look as if they've also now been nibbled. The stunted and pale happened first, none seem to grow past 8 inches, and most less than that. I've some pics below - any ideas?







My french beans, and my Zinnias, had been super green and growing well then all of a sudden turned yellow and unhealthy looking - half the beans seem to have just died.
Zinnia

French beans

Even my poor blueberry plant is taking a bad hit - looks half eaten as well as poorly otherwise, what is going on here? I'm growing it in a pot of ericaceous compost, is it underwatered, underfed?


Any help or advice greatly appreciated ! I'm at a loss now and don't want to keep making the same mistakes.
Cheers,
Goldy
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On the plus side, some of the photographs show plants that don't look that bad/should recover. Have you sown all your seeds (for each crop) at once. I found that doing them in batches meant that if something wiped a batch out, I had another chance.
Experimenting with the same crop in different locations/growing mediums can have significantly different results. I've had french beans growing well in one spot but terribly in another (a matter of yards away).
I've got more protection this year than last. Home-made cages/netting will prevent birds and nocturnal animals showing too much interest.
I also spent a lot of time finding and removing slugs and caterpillars!
The sweet peas in the first photo (l assume), don't look all that bad to me. Although the lower leaves are brown the new growth seems healthy enough. I know they haven't grown as much as you would hope, but the weather "down here" has been from one extreme to the other, so l would imagine it's even more so in North Wales. I've noticed that now the weather is warming up things are starting to move. It may be that in the space of a few days they will start to take off.
The lavenders do look under stress, which variety are they ?
The zinnias and French beans look starved. Have you given them any feed at all ? What type of compost are they in?
It's unfortunate that you've been hit with so many problems all at once, l hope the forum can help with most if not all of them
I always start out in compost (have always used peat free), but by the time they are going out they just all seem to fail. I wonder if the manure was too much. Eurgh, so much to learn!
I've never had any luck growing broccoli, mine has also always bolted no matter what method I try.
Peas grow really long deep roots, so your peas are probably just concentrating on root growth before they start the top growth.
Your lavender damage could be caused by rosemary beetle, they also eat lavender and thyme.
You also mention that you used manure, this could have burned the young plants delicate roots. Young plants roots can't cope with fertiliser, so I would water well to flush off the impact of the fertiliser.
The lavenders are all hidcote and munstead I think. Any ideas what may the issue here? I just can't figure it out, wondered if it was a lavender beetle?
Ah ok now the zinnias and beans I didn't know needed food till they started flowing, no i haven't fed them - I will try that with the tomato feed I have see if it helps. At what point should I be starting to feed things? With strawberries I didn't till they started flowers and they've gone fairly well, not a bumper crop or anything but some and they aren't dead lol.
Ach it is a bit stressful with so many issues at once, but I have to learn what I'm getting wrong. I do think slug snail and caterpillar protection is a must now - half the zinnias actually got eaten I assume by slugs and snails, they stalks just disappeared but I know it wasn't the rabbits. Yeah we've rabbits to contend with too but I've rabbit proofed the veg beds
Is there anything I can do about the lavender beetle? I've rosemary and thyme too so don't want it all eaten!
The blueberry is new this year so it's fresh eric-compost. I am guessing this also must have needed more food and water and have therefore watered and fed with tomato feed this morning.
The manure burning roots makes total sense - everything i read said I needed to enrich the ground before planting, so I did, guessing maybe it wasn't in there long enough to break down, maybe next year it will be better. The only thing I used plain topsoil for was the carrots and parsnips. Carrots have been super slow to germinate.
That makes sense about the peas, I'll leave this lot in as while they look not great they aren't actually withered and dead like the last lot, though they've been in the ground weeks with little to no growth.
Shame about the broccoli for you, what a pain! I will try again, have to be next year now. Super disappointed as its my fave veg!
I will pot on the zinnias and beans - I had only just potted on the zinnias very recently and they haven't filled their new pots yet but I wonder if I potted them on from the last pot too late? I will also feed them all, poor plants
I do have a couple of kinds of lavender and some beetle damage but i don't spray them , pick them off if i see them. Cannot tell how big your plants are , but mine ( 2 plus years old) seem to survive the odd attack ok . RHS advice here : https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=555. I cannot tell if you are growing these from seed and so these are v small plants or if your photo is a close up of the top of one or two plants - if the former seems quite dense planting although could be camera angle?
Separately - are you/were you growing under glass? With the strong sun i wonder whether the big changes in day and night temp if unheated greenhouse may have caused some shock ( speculation) .
The lavender is one of the few things not sown from seed - those were pots bought. The large is in its second year with me. It does appear it may be beetle - I will have a good look at that RHS thread you posted, thank you!
I was growing everything in my conservatory while the greenhouse is still being built (at this rate it won't be ready till next season :-/ ) but I keep the windows open in the day and the door if really warm. I think the extreme temp shifts did cause issues in April and May, it was so bad here!
https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/Resources/Info-Sheet/French-bean-Crop-Sheet
(I know the above is for schools gardening, but we're all learning
I haven't grown veg for a few years, but l think one of the best books available is "Grow your own veg" by Carole Klein.
I've got Monty Don's Complete Gardener which I find brill, but another source would be super, I'll try the Carol Klein, thanks