2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops

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rach1900
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Re: 2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops

Post: # 135604Post rach1900 »

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

MINESAPINT
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Re: 2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops

Post: # 137926Post MINESAPINT »

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

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greenfingers
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Re: 2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops

Post: # 151763Post greenfingers »

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)

Rohen
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Re: 2007 and 2008 top three and worst three crops

Post: # 151827Post Rohen »

Last year best crop

Cherries

netted them in time and reaped decent rewards



Nothing else grown in 2007 or 8
Rohen the Dobermann owner

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