Summer has been over for weeks

[innocent_lex]

Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. And wind. And greyness. And did I mention the rain? I've just had a look at the forecast for the next few weeks and it seems to be more of the same. I wonder if I should install UV in the house to improve my mood?

Just as an aside, tomatoes don't grow well without sunshine. Actually, they don't grow well in my garden, but the lack of sunshine is a bigger issue. I have two tomatoes on the plant (that's two more than last year) which are small and still green, and it doesn't look like they're going to turn into tomatoes that can be eaten.

I've given up on growing veg. Honestly, this is the second year where I've tried and it's been crap. The potatoes gave up and died several weeks ago, garlic just... isn't. Tomatoes as mentioned. *sigh* 

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[wildcard-sej.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, all this rain means I don't have to water everything myself at the moment, but on the other, I don't have much left still planted either.... I had to bring up all my potatoes early this year because the plants suddenly turned yellow, and I found they'd been infested with tiny little thread-like worms. :(

Last year was my first growing veggies so I'm still definitely at the hit and miss stage. Mainly, my garden faces the wrong way and doesn't get enough sun anyway, except for a very small corner, so I'm still trying to find what works where. Also, when it was hot earlier in the year, it was too extreme - some stuff was ending up so parched and wilted during the daytime that it couldn't recover even being watered twice in the day, and a few very heavy downpours damaged the young plants as well.

I have tomato plants for the first time this year, but like yours mine aren't showing any signs of ripening, so I think I'll have to find some recipes to use them green instead at this rate. I did have a successful crop of onions this year though, a few leeks, lettuces (in a raised trough to keep them away from the slugs this time), and a brief crop of mange tout, plus my sweetcorn is looking very hopeful.... *fingers crossed*

I'm going to keep persevering now that I've finally started, but I think my next step is to get a potting shed sorted out for next year so I can start my seedlings off under cover and hopefully they'll then stand a better chance of taking. Maybe.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, everything's waterlogged at the moment. I suspect that's the real problem for the tomatoes, not just the lack of sunshine. I can't be bothered to make all this effort for no reward, any more. It's simpler to just rely on Waitrose *g*