Anyone else having problems?

Veg. are growing very very slowly this year, I know that I'm often late up
here but honestly I cannot remember a year when young plants seem so
reluctant to grow. Potatoes are doing fine and broad beans are in flower,
but that's about it. My lettuce just won't shift and my brassicas are
struggling.
I'm putting it down to the lack of sun.

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On Thursday, 21 June 2012 10:19:24 UTC+1, wrote:
Anyone else having problems?

Veg. are growing very very slowly this year, I know that I'm often late up
here but honestly I cannot remember a year when young plants seem so
reluctant to grow. Potatoes are doing fine and broad beans are in flower,
but that's about it. My lettuce just won't shift and my brassicas are
struggling.
I'm putting it down to the lack of sun.

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Morning Will.
My carrots were very poor, in fact I dug up two rows last week-too cold !
My climbing french beans need a week of hot sun shine, but parsnips OK.
New spuds are brilliant, and eating them frequently.
14.9mm of rain overnight, rain Torrential in Marlow near 03Z.
Well over 100mm of rain this month, hoping for big storms this afternoon
Regards Richard Bailey Marlow-Bucks

It' a new garden for me, having moved in at the start of the year - but, yes, very slow growing in comparison to other years. Runner beans this week finally seem to be getting some sort of momentum in terms of reaching the top of the cane. Peas, also, only just now getting a burst of growth. Potatoes, of which I have only one large pot, are the only plants that seem to be growing at the normal rate. Tomatoes, however, are really struggling and just don't seem to want to grow. I know that tomatoes absolutely love sun so it could just be the lack of it that is stunting them?
One positive at the moment seems to be the lack of slugs

Scott W wrote:
It' a new garden for me, having moved in at the start of the year - but, yes, very slow growing in comparison to other years. Runner beans this week finally seem to be getting some sort of momentum in terms of reaching the top of the cane. Peas, also, only just now getting a burst of growth. Potatoes, of which I have only one large pot, are the only plants that seem to be growing at the normal rate. Tomatoes, however, are really struggling and just don't seem to want to grow. I know that tomatoes absolutely love sun so it could just be the lack of it that is stunting them?
One positive at the moment seems to be the lack of slugs
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Opposite here Scott - runner beans never struggled so much but the slugs
are thriving. Have got one ripe strawberry though!
Dave

On Jun 21, 2:19*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Scott W wrote:
It' a new garden for me, having moved in at the start of the year - but, yes, very slow growing in comparison to other years. Runner beans this week finally seem to be getting some sort of momentum in terms of reaching the top of the cane. Peas, also, only just now getting a burst of growth. Potatoes, of which I have only one large pot, are the only plants that seem to be growing at the normal rate. Tomatoes, however, are really struggling and just don't seem to want to grow. I know that tomatoes absolutely love sun so it could just be the lack of it that is stunting them?
One positive at the moment seems to be the lack of slugs

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Opposite here Scott - runner beans never struggled so much but the slugs
are thriving. Have got one ripe strawberry though!
Dave


According to Country Diary in today's Guardian this would
appear to be The Year of the Slug, confirming your observation if not
Scott's. Someone should tell the Chinese.
I don't grow veg but I have noticed that the grass is
growing only very slowly and this has been true from early spring.
Good - I don't have to cut it so often.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Scott W wrote:
It' a new garden for me, having moved in at the start of the year - but,
yes, very slow growing in comparison to other years. Runner beans this
week finally seem to be getting some sort of momentum in terms of
reaching the top of the cane. Peas, also, only just now getting a burst
of growth. Potatoes, of which I have only one large pot, are the only
plants that seem to be growing at the normal rate. Tomatoes, however, are
really struggling and just don't seem to want to grow. I know that
tomatoes absolutely love sun so it could just be the lack of it that is
stunting them?
One positive at the moment seems to be the lack of slugs
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Opposite here Scott - runner beans never struggled so much but the slugs
are thriving. Have got one ripe strawberry though!
Dave


Cannot grow strawberries up here (too cold). My runner beans are 3 inches
high at present and struggling to make growth (too cloudy and too cold).
Sowed my onions in the March warm spell, about 5 seedlings came up which
have now withered away in the soil. Leeks are still in their pots waiting to
go out when the soil gets warmer. It is all very depressing for veg. growing
:-(

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On 21/06/2012 10:19, Dartmoor Will wrote:
Veg. are growing very very slowly this year, I know that I'm often late
up here but honestly I cannot remember a year when young plants seem so
reluctant to grow. Potatoes are doing fine and broad beans are in
flower, but that's about it. My lettuce just won't shift and my
brassicas are struggling.

Our strawberries are really struggling...

--
Wendy Tinley
Sheffield

In article ,
Dartmoor Will writes:
Anyone else having problems?

Veg. are growing very very slowly this year, I know that I'm often
late up here but honestly I cannot remember a year when young
plants seem so reluctant to grow. Potatoes are doing fine and
broad beans are in flower, but that's about it. My lettuce just won't
shift and my brassicas are struggling.
I'm putting it down to the lack of sun.

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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If you really want 300mm before the end of the month, then I suppose
this is the sort of sacrifice that you are going to have to make. (I
realise that a lot of rain doesn't always have to imply a lack of sun,
but that seems to be the combination that we've had this year.)
--
John Hall
Johnson: "Well, we had a good talk."
Boswell: "Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84); James Boswell (1740-95)

Dartmoor Will wrote:

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Scott W wrote:
It' a new garden for me, having moved in at the start of the year -
but, yes, very slow growing in comparison to other years. Runner
beans this week finally seem to be getting some sort of momentum in
terms of reaching the top of the cane. Peas, also, only just now
getting a burst of growth. Potatoes, of which I have only one large
pot, are the only plants that seem to be growing at the normal rate.
Tomatoes, however, are really struggling and just don't seem to want
to grow. I know that tomatoes absolutely love sun so it could just be
the lack of it that is stunting them?
One positive at the moment seems to be the lack of slugs
--------------------------
Opposite here Scott - runner beans never struggled so much but the
slugs are thriving. Have got one ripe strawberry though!
Dave


Cannot grow strawberries up here (too cold). My runner beans are 3
inches high at present and struggling to make growth (too cloudy and too
cold). Sowed my onions in the March warm spell, about 5 seedlings came
up which have now withered away in the soil. Leeks are still in their
pots waiting to go out when the soil gets warmer. It is all very
depressing for veg. growing :-(

http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Maybe you should just sow your oats then ;-)
Dave

On Jun 21, 10:19*am, "Dartmoor Will"
wrote:
Anyone else having problems?

Veg. are growing very very slowly this year, I know that I'm often late up
here but honestly I cannot remember a year when young plants seem so
reluctant to grow. Potatoes are doing fine and broad beans are in flower,
but that's about it. My lettuce just won't shift and my brassicas are
struggling.
I'm putting it down to the lack of sun.

The hay harvest is a bust this year in some parts of Britain. I have
been looking forward to eating summer cabbage to little avail and the
carrots in the local bandit-merchant (Morrisons) are crap.

OTOH the countryside looks so green at the moment, it appears toxic.
It's amazing just how verdant this country can be just a few miles
from the worst of humanity.

Of course such a colour has a price even if the the hay is brought in
while the sun shines. Maybe those farmers who took a cut of silage
earlier in the year will get away with it if the crop does seed later.
Though I beleive it catches up if it can.

It will all have tobe brought in by the end of June. That leaves a
week to gewt the climate adjusted.

And most of a fortnight of thundery type weather left on the cards.