Surrey..
Top 3:
Swiss Chard - it just kept coming!
Beetroot - although they were somewhat on the small side, that how I like them!
Black currents
Worst:
Marrows - fruits rotted on the plants, very poor yeild
Swede - never came to much
Radish - not terrible but bolted very quickly
2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops
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- Living the good life
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Re: 2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops
Yorkshire - near Whitby.
I put a lot of effort in last year and had a lot of success so difficult to choose but here goes:
Best 3
Peas
Broad Beans
Carrots - unusually no fly last year.
Worst 3
Sprouts
Strawberries
Cultivated blackberries
MINESAPINT
I put a lot of effort in last year and had a lot of success so difficult to choose but here goes:
Best 3
Peas
Broad Beans
Carrots - unusually no fly last year.
Worst 3
Sprouts
Strawberries
Cultivated blackberries
MINESAPINT
MINESAPINT
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- Jerry - Bit higher than newbie
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- Location: west cornwall
Re: 2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops
west cornwall
best-
french beans (cherokee trail of tears, totally breezed through the mini drought we had)
leeks
chard/spinach
worst-
potatoes (blight)
tomatoes(blight also)
runner beans(rust, anthracnose and something else i have yet to identify, but possibly halo blight)
onions/shallots (didnt do well at all, no particular reason for it i could see, also rotted in storidge. reds did worst than the yellows)
white sprouting(bolted)
carrots(carrot fly, which we dont usualy get)
best-
french beans (cherokee trail of tears, totally breezed through the mini drought we had)
leeks
chard/spinach
worst-
potatoes (blight)
tomatoes(blight also)
runner beans(rust, anthracnose and something else i have yet to identify, but possibly halo blight)
onions/shallots (didnt do well at all, no particular reason for it i could see, also rotted in storidge. reds did worst than the yellows)
white sprouting(bolted)
carrots(carrot fly, which we dont usualy get)
Re: 2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops
Last year best crop
Cherries
netted them in time and reaped decent rewards
Nothing else grown in 2007 or 8
Cherries
netted them in time and reaped decent rewards
Nothing else grown in 2007 or 8
Rohen the Dobermann owner