Comments on: A hard year on the plot

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:42:28 +0000

No problems with the tomatoes here, either the ones bought as young plants from the garden centre or the ones grown from seed. Same goes for the peppers.

Carrots – well. I set two rows and have maybe 8 seedlings, they are growing very slowly and look pretty weedy.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:32:18 +0000

I have had a similar problem with carrots this year. I have tried 3 different varieties and have only one seedling to show for it. Have just sown some more in a different location so keeping my fingers crossed. Amazingly my parsnips germinated fine and are doing quite well. You could try a liquid seaweed feed for the toms, mine are doing well on that and have begun to set fruit.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:32:36 +0000

Interesting – our tomatoes just seem to be growing so slow and they are very much stick like. This time last year they were very much filled out and bush like. Our potatoes on the other hand seem to be loving it all

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:13:19 +0000

Recent weather changes have played havoc with bringing crops on for a lot of people. Parsnips are always tricky to germinate – mine came on well in the warm weather with lots of water.

Carrots have been hit and miss for other people and though mine have appeared, they are very slow to mature.

You could try a general fertiliser to help the tomatoes and maybe the same for the other crops that are slow. Sometimes a feed helps things on.