for all the gardeners!!

[oxeyedaisy]

i grow lots of things but pumpkins are my top crop..this year they are very slow..so i posted a message on the bbc and some person full of doom and gloom said nothing will grow this year due to the late spring and cold nights..i think my crops are a few weeks behind..do any of you others grow things and are yours slow?i have promised my grandson i will grow him a huge pumpkin..at this rate i will end up buying one and sticking it on my veg plot..

[Robinia]

I'm afraid I don't grow veg anymore but I do sympathise with you, don't be put off by the doom merchants, they might catch up. I love the idea of cheating though!  

I'm really fed up this year with the weather...cold...windy...too dry.  Nothing we can do about it but complain!  I seem to be battling with more greenfly, whitefly every-blinkin'-colour-of-the-spectrum-fly than usual & I've been outside with the soapy water this afternoon.  They're probably all singing & scrubbing each others backs at the moment!

Sorry this isn't much help oxeyedaisy!

[Gilli]

Hmmm ..... can't say I've noticed any growing "go slow" so far this year. Admittedly I have all flowers & shrubs, no veg., but fingers crossed, everything seems to be thriving this year except for my poor Hostas, but as usual this is down to the slugs rather than climate.

[Artful]

With the very cold weather everything got off to a slow and tortuous start but after the last dramatic snowfall (beginning May) nature has suddenly picked up and the growing season is going wild - flowers, weeds, fruit, veg... you name it, there's no holding it back.
Hope the same thing will happen with your pumpkins, oxeyedaisy.

[oxeyedaisy]

my onions and leeks are okay and i have sweet peas in flower..the runner beans have picked up..its just the pumpkins..its gone cold again so i have covered them up with a cloche..and i gave them a comfrey feed..hope that will move them..once they get going they will zip along..hopefully...if that doom and gloom merchant hasnt jinxed them..i havnt got any insect problems as i have chives and marigolds everywhere..anyone that wants to see my garden type in herb witch and search and go to the pictures and mine is the mullein garden..the pictures i put on their look good..