So many gardener's have lost their garlic and onions. It was warm in the mini heat wave, then nothing but rain.....😂. Is it July.....😅 ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.

Great catch up Nigel. Shame about the garlic - ours wasn't good at all but as always we'll try again next year!

Hi Nigel, garlic has been a hard one for me this year and others too. Quite a lot of crops have failed this season for me, leeks have rust again, sweetpeas germinated but were munched, 3 more sowings & gave up. Sunflowers were munched too, only one left & it doesn't look good. Lovely update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

Hi Nigel I feel your pain I didn’t have a single garlic bulb I could use due to rust. It’s so frustrating but will try again next season.😂

Have been racking my highly qualified Horticultural brain, why so much rust around, have been experimenting here in New Zealand, my onion, garlic, shallots, elephant garlic and leeks share a bed each year, but don't come back to that bed for 9 years, that is reasonably new, due to our household now only being two. Planting the garlic deeper up to 100mm and in mid Autumn, seems to be working, even planted closer last year incase the crop failed. Buy new garlic from a reliable source, used some of own rust free this year, will be interesting to see how that goes. Have also been injured, so the garlic wasn't something I worried about much. But had grown no garlic from 2018 until 2023.

Hello mate shame about your garlic.I had a brilliant harvest this year if you need some new stock let me know. Mine in raised beds done better than in the ground. Your carrots look superb. All the best Nic 👍🧅🥕🧄

@MuddyBootz

16 күн бұрын

Cheers mate for your kind offer, I may take you up on that. So disappointing after the stems looked thick and strong 😣

Nice one Nigel 👍👍👍

Not cold enough for long enough,and wet wet wet!!! Ours do ok but they were a bit soggy when I harvested them so I dehydrated them. What a year!!

I think its been so mild over winter and real wet for them to really get going mate. great update

@MuddyBootz

16 күн бұрын

I agree with you mate. Let's hope for a good late summer. 🤞

Nice update. my onions was poor this year as well

My garlic didn’t split either and the stems looked so teasingly promising 😢. Not a bad shallot harvest though 👍. It’s been an odd year across the globe Nigel but we’re gardeners we will always try again next year. Have a super day, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

@MuddyBootz

17 күн бұрын

Hi Ali, I think that was the cause of my disappointment. The stems were over 1/2” thick yet the bulbs were not much bigger 🙁

Not having the best of seasons myself mostly my own fault in April the start of the busy time i went in for open heart surgery then having a terrible year with slugs never seen so many but not to worry just enjoy the rest of the season and come back stronger next year

@MuddyBootz

16 күн бұрын

Hope your recovery is going well, the garden will always be there when you are ready. Take care

All 50 of my garlic we had to burn, I was gutted!! I have grown garlic for years very successfully, however this year garlic shared a raised bed with onions as I have done in the past and had good results. However the dreaded rust destroyed my garlic and to save my onions I pulled them all and burned the lot to avoid further rust to my onions. Yesterday I harvested my onions very pleased with the result. Have read I cannot sow garlic or onions in this bed for 3 years!! Would appreciate and advice from all you gardeners.

Thanks for this video, makes me realise I'm not the only one with rubbish garlic, and the onions aren't much better this year.

we can't guarantee perfect crops every year, nigel. some years give better yields than others........................brian

Love those mini munch - i have 4 plants and am getting 6-8 cucs twice a week from them. Its been such a cold and dark year with little warmth and very poor light levels everything is much further behind than usual.

Hi Nigel. There seem to be a lot of us who have had a garlic fail this year. Quick question - what type of wire or plastic frame do you use under the green mesh over the parsnips ? Thanks.

Nice update Nigel, I think the weather may be a factor with the garlic, its been so wet and cold, (doesn't explain the non splitting though), don't forget to take the collars off this year!...Good luck for the season.

Had a look at my garlic and it looks similar, no size at all. Don't think it's cold enough now to give em enough cold so they split. Might have to stick the cloves in the fridge for a month before in future. No cold Winters anymore no Hot Summers anymore, just like Autumn all year these days . Absolute cack.

@MuddyBootz

17 күн бұрын

Quite right Dan. Good idea with the fridge, may do half and half next year just to compare results. Seed onions are slow bulbing up. Another 6,weeks and we will really see the nights drawing in 🙁

Hi Nigel, sorry to hear about your garlic. While I don't grow garlic, I'm hoping not to get a similar result with my onions come September. We've had plenty of rain the last 3 weeks but got good harvest of broccoli, cabbage & salad lettuce. Also got my spring flower display planted in the front garden. This year stock, snapdragon & yellow pansies. 350 plants in all. Good luck with the rest of your seasons harvest. Cheers from down under. 👍👍😋😋

If it any consolation nigel mine are the same and like some of the other lads tomatoes and onions and alot of other vegetables. It good to see it happening to the experts cause i taught it was me😂lol. We'll just put it down to the weather and a bad year.... we'll get it right next year nigel

Did you do long red Florence this year Nigel, I followed your recommendation last year and they are amazing, much better than zebrune! The main crop tomatoes though are truly terrible, so far behind

@MuddyBootz

16 күн бұрын

Hi Steve , yes the LRF are bulking up nicely... in fact all of the seed onions appear to be on track. It is my worse season for slow maturing crops since I started my allotment. The runner beans have been in 8+ weeks and not reached to top s of the canes yet.

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My garlic was so bad with rust and had to pull early. The bulbs are pathetically small. Onions got downy mildew. A bad year for those 2 crops

My garlic was a similar fail this year....very disappointing yield. Not enough sun and warmth this year?

I'm just out side of Lichfield so close to you, I'm gutted your garlic has failed but also a little relieved because mines failed and I thought it was something I've done. I can't understand what's happening this year. My spring onions all failed, cucumber and tomato are really behind.. hoping it's just bad year

@MuddyBootz

17 күн бұрын

Ive done countless sowing of spring onions and only had 2 batches germinate. Sown another 3 batches beginning of July....fingers crossed 🤞

@silverbk11

17 күн бұрын

@@MuddyBootz it seems to be a very funny year. At first I questioned the compost as we have gone peat free. But now I'm thinking it could be the weather.

My garlic is decent this year but shallot and red onion sets all gone to seed so I going to try save some seed from them and see if I can do any better with seed

Nightmare Nigel. The few garlic of mine that did bulb up were okay, but I expect to get more than 5 decent ones from 20 or 30 planted! Just waiting for a few consecutive dry days before lifting my shallots. I have never know carrots to take as long to germinate at this year - 4 weeks for 4 different varieties on my plot, normally 2 weeks max!

@MuddyBootz

17 күн бұрын

Same story with many other gardeners. I think we need to have a word with our mate upstairs and get him to send us some decent weather 🤣👍

@DigwellGreenfingers

17 күн бұрын

@@MuddyBootz Or concentrate on growing grass 🤣😂🤣

@MuddyBootz

17 күн бұрын

@@DigwellGreenfingers 🤔😱🤣👍🏻

Alot of my shallots bolted sadly

my garlic was poor

Worst crop of Garlic I have ever had. No rust but pathetically small bulbs for every variety.