Pushing up the daisies

Catastrophic, that's the only word I can use to describe the state of the garden. For most of June, the weather has been rainy and miserable and significantly colder than it should be. This has not really helped the garden at a time of year when everything is expecting sun :-(

• The potatoes have disappeared, there is no foliage at all. I don't know whether to attempt digging them up or leaving them in the ground a bit longer?
• The peas have just failed to give fruit. And the few they did give have been scoffed by something (note to self - next year do peas differently and net them).
• The tomatoes seem to just be dying, there is no other way to describe it. They are tiny and sad looking. I will maybe try to buy some more plants on the weekend in a last ditch effort but it is not looking good.
• I don't think there will be any QLD Blue pumpkins as they seem to have died :-( and only one melon has survived too.
• I pulled up one of the garlic shoots and there is no bulb, a strong garlic smell but it resembles a spring onion. (note to self: overwinter garlic and onions next year).

Some things do seem to like the weather;

• the green beans are up but I hope it warms up soon or they may rot.
• broccoli,
• leeks,
• lettuce (must plant some more this weekend)
• rocket,
• strawberries have loads of flowers for a second crop so fingers crossed,
• parsnips are getting huge! and the beets and fennel too are looking great.
• gherkins and courgettes have flowers too.
• rhubarb (making new leaves).
• sunflowers.

So I am not too optimistic about this year's results, which of course is an enormous disappointment to me. And I think I have an enormous work session ahead of me this weekend to try and tidy everything up as the weeds are rampant.
Highlight- This morning I harvested 4 lettuces, some rocket 2 gherkins that had grown oversized and 3 courgettes. And some oversized radishes that maybe I can grate into a salad??

Labels: garlic, lettuce, potato, strawberry, summer, sunflowers