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It sounds very tough. It seems when something starts as a passion and money comes in, it can deflate or ruin you because of demands.

It actually makes me feel a bit better from the godfather of veg gardening, that you also think its been tough 😂

How do you eat fennel?

I had a terrible time this Spring with low light and Boxelder bugs and egg masses in everything! So horrible! As soon as you stepped in garden a tornado of Boxelders swarmed up from the straw and leaf compost. It made me “mental” and took two months to get it to just seeing one or two now. I still have cabbage in garden…usually I harvest by mid to end if MAY. It’s just now heading yet not good heading-slooow. Weather was very strange this Spring unlike the last 16 years here. SouthCentral Pennsylvania

So encouraging, thank you so much for these updates! I am losing a lot of lettuce plants this year to something eating the stems just below the surface of the soil, leaving a brown nibbled tip below and floppy dead leaves above. I wondered if it could be woodlice?! I see a lot of them in the bed.....😢

A French restaurant would be happy with those snails 🐌

Charles or anyone what are those trees 🌲 and shrubs of lime green on the back called? 0:43

Merci Charles pour les conseils. Le semi- multiple est très efficace . Depuis un mois j'ai des oignons frais , je les laisse par 3. Et je viens de planter mes plants de choux au milieu. Merci encore Maxime of small garden in brittany!

A great day to see a Charles video! I needed this today my friend, thank you!❤

Thank you so much. Interesting about the yellow leaf tomatoes. I've been quite distressed by my very poorly looking tomatoes this year - the first year in about 30 years that they are so weak and sickly. Perhaps it's the low light and cool temperatures - even though they are in a polytunnel.

I love your tours Charles! Yes those pesky slugs and the cooler days and nights which is what I realise now, thank you, is slowing my tomatoes growing.

I have one profi question to you, Mr Dowding, jumps to picking harvest up. When as "the growing up" and where as "the hour of day" are the timing/pluck/ of these colorful stock as foods? Отговор

I have one profi asking to you, Mr Dowding, jumps to picking strawberry up. When as "the growing up" and where as "the hour of day" are the timing/pluck/ of this red -colorful fruit?

Horrible year here in Walsall West Midlands, tomatoes are just about hanging on in the raised bed outside, I think according to the Hadley CET June is currently -2°c under AVG.. there is a little hint of summer heat last week of June.

Good afternoon, Charles! Have you tried setting traps for slugs? For example, how to pour beer into a container and bury it at ground level?

Charles...it's a disaster here for me too in Cambridgeshire....too cold....

I'm having trouble with the climate getting hotter and dryer here. There's so much sunlight I grow my peppers under partial shade below and between taller plants. I'm still surprised it's working. I was only experimenting with it because last year I had a lot of fruit drop and burnt jalapenos.

My homemade compost always sprouts heaps of seedlings !😬

I love and regularly follow your channel from Wellington, New Zealand. I have a tiny patio where I can only ever grow vegetables in containers. Seeing your tiny vege patch with the challenges of shade from surrounding trees and structures, as well as unseasonal weather, is suddenly very relatable.

Thank you for showing your failures as well as successes and for explaining why some of the failures and slow growth are occurring. Failures are often puzzling-Was it weather, location, climate…? Should I give up on this or do something different? I can’t quite believe that some gardeners never fail at anything. Thanks for helping us figure out why these particular plants didn’t do well and what to do to remedy the situation.

This is so reassuring - I've invested so much time, patience and I have to say money into creating a larger raised bed no dig garden this year and nothing is growing! Ive been lucky with a lack of slugs so far, but i did have an issue with cup fungus growing everywhere in the new compost which was pushing up seedlings. Ive had success with container gardening in previous summers and over the past four years finally built up the confidence to go for beds and was so disheartened for what i felt was a failure this year. I'm glad it's not just me and I'm going to relax a bit and see how the season unfolds. Thanks as always Charles

Hi charles...can I ask. The yellowing of the leaves, would the same apply to chilli plants ?

I have one profi asking to you, Mr Dowding, jumps to picking courgettes up. When as "the growing up" and where as "the hour of day" are the timing/the cut off/ of this dark green vegetable?

yes we in west yorkshire are not having great results with the weather being wet and cold overcast cloud blocking the light of life (Sun). Well at least we can thank our lucky stars! (climate change) its not warming up and the Co2 levels are nearing zero (lol) we've had the hottest May on record and await the scorching heatwave that's forecast to come? Watch this space!

It is not a good year for a lot of crops this year generally. Last year with this leaf miner everyone else on the allotments had it but I sowed seeds direct and it was not an issue but seed sown onions are a pain to grow so I went for sets this year and yes I have this now. My garlic is fine except in some areas the are a bit mouldy. My other crops are just sat there and waiting for an actual summer. While they are doing it something is eating everything except the potatoes and tomatoes. In a normal year they would grow faster and beat whatever is after them. I cannot net everything so have to hope it stops soon. I am even getting leeks chewed off which has never happened in my long history of having an allotment. Next will be blight!

Thanks Charles for your invaluable advice and encouragement, it has indeed been a very challenging growing year, I've never had so many failures !

cant wait to buy and read this

Put squished (dead) slugs in the compost bin? What's your experience, Charles, or do you avoid composting animal material altogether?

Thank you for the information about yellowing plants, I kept looking to see what wasn't going on, now you've mentioned lack of sunlight I know what to do. Hail stones today, small and quite a lot of them along with an equal amount of noise. I checked afterwards and most everything is more or less alright. I had just planted out my feeble bush beefsteak tomatoes. They made it through.

This is really helpful, thank you, ive bern baffled at the washed out colour of some of my young veggie plants, now i know hoping for more sunshine for everyone 😊

I thought there was something wrong with my cauliflowers as all I've got is loads of leaves but seeing yours, mine look much the same. However, cauliflowers I planted last autumn still haven't born fruit and I am wondering whether to just cut my losses and take them out. They are wonderful plants but are not showing any sign of producing a curd.

İncirin altında zayıf dallar çıkar. Kökten çoğalır. Onları kıştan çıkarken ilkbaharda söküp başka yere ekeriz. İlk yıl çok sularız. Dalını kalem gibi küçük keser serinde köklendirme yaparız. Güneye bakan doğrudan güneş alan korunaklı yerde gelişir. Yalnız donlar tam bitmeden uyanmayacağı bir yer olmalı. Bizde her yerde büyüyor. Türkiye 8b deyim. Şimdiden sıcaklıklar aşırı arttı. Zeytin ağaçları sıcaktan zeytin meyvelerini döküyor. Sıcaklığa önlem arıyoruz.

I think my early year is lost 😕 TBH the weather has put me off a bit, and now things are overgrown. I need to plant something, anything that I can keep indoors for a few weeks ... then hopefully we get some heat and sun rather than cold and rain.

I was considering trying to build a small dew pond have you considered that as a way to get water to stay in?

Brilliant.

Hes just adorable

Not always peaches and cream but eventually there will be some crops! We have the oposite problem....way too hot 93°F today and in the 90s most of the past week! So hot, I went to water at 7:30 pm was over 80 degrees. I really don' t want to be outside at all! Thank you Charles! Blessings!

The weather in Chicago has been crazy too. It goes from freezing to burning hot. I have some successes though. Thank you for sharing.

Slugs and snails are out of control this year. During and after a rain there are armies of them marching over the driveway and stone paths. I admit I've spitefully stomped on a few and my niece helped me root them out in the garden beds so I can snip them in half. Disgusting, but I can't let them eat everything.

Charles, how do you get pollination in polytunnels and greenhouses?

Everything's miles behind this year, even my broad beans, which were sown last October, so now I'm nursing brassicas which were supposed to follow them. As for slugs: I use a single application of nematodes every year & this keeps their depredations down to manageable levels without starving the beetles (they seem to move over to devouring cutworms instead, which is a good thing).

Have you thought of taking out or moving that shed? The small garden would thank you 🥰🥰🥰

In the Pacific Northwest, we call the cool weather you’ve been having “June-uary”. Still, night time temps in the 30s is just wrong 😆

My husband doesn't understand why I get so mad about the slugs, but when you've been babying tiny seedlings for weeks, and only have so many of each sown, then slugs come and eat the lot in one night....I have something to be mad about! So I filled many beer traps and caught a lot that way. Also every single morning I went around the garden and lifted every single pot or seed tray and dispatched slugs with the scissors. I have no green house so all seedlings are started right on the garden bed. One lesson we've learned this year, and are currently working to fix, is to remove all grass and plants, flowers etc around the garden perimeter. I liked the flowers but it gets too weedy with grass and buttercups, all get out of hand, so it's going. We will just continue with the woodchips and I decided maybe some big pots here and there of flowers and herbs. I was shocked when I saw the snails on your pallets!! Glad I don't feel so alone with the slug/snail problem! PS. the diligence with the beer traps and scissors hunt has paid off, much less pressure from slugs now.

This is really reassuring. It's my first year gardening and I've been struggling so much with the slugs and the weather.

didn't know that about yellow leaves and cold soil! been relatively cold here in northern france too

Thank you for explaining the issue with yellow leaves. It had been puzzling me with some new planted out plants. I thought it was an issue with nutrients or watering. I had no idea it was the colder temperature that caused the problem.

My strewberries get attacked by woodlice. They are on rape straw.

Hello Charles, Un peu difficile cette année mais bon je m'en sors bien quand même 👍 Quand j'ai coupé toute la mâche qui montait en fleur ( mâche dautomnet),il y avait énormément de limaces cachées dessous, c'était impressionnant, c'était de belles limaces orange plutôt marron même 😲 Comme toi,tous mes ails d'hiver ( violets et blancs) ont chopé la rouille mais les têtes sont très belles.. je ne vais pas tarder à les enlever. Mes pommes de terre sont énormes , elles ont eu du fumier de bovins de 2 ans ( très noir et rempli de vers de fumier 😲) et je les butte avec 1/3 de tonte de pelouse et 2/3 de broyat...je croise aussi les doigts afin de ne pas avoir de mildiou. J'ai planté 200 plants de tomates,les dernières il y a 2 jours ( toutes dehors,pas de serre) et je croise les doigts afin que le temps s'améliore 🙏 Jai semé des haricots verts et jaune avant hier aussi J'espère que ce commentaire n'est pas trop long? Allé Charles bon we Pépé JP de ch'nord

Bay normally grows like crazy anywhere.