Post Your Garden Failures Here!

[Smiles Jr.]

It looks like my peas are not going to make it through the hot dry spell here.

#1 Some pea plants are doing OK and others are withering away.

#2 More peas in distress. The row of bush beans behind are doing OK but they typically take the heat well.

#3 Here are some stunted broccoli and Brussels sprouts that simply will not grow. They have been this size for weeks now.

#4 But these young ladies are having a banner year.

#5 Happy bees are productive bees. It looks like all of them are out foraging - that's a good thing.

 

[ducks4you]

EVERY time I climbed my cucumbers they got blight and died. Every time I've left them to sprawl, they were happy and made fruit.
EVERY TIME I have tried lavendar in my herb bed, it's roots got wet and died. THIS time I'm putting it next the house, a place reserved for desert plants, and dry roots.
Never have I gotten a good carrot crop.
FIRST YEAR that basil started from seed for me.
NEVER harvested more than a few watermelon, and last year...NONE.
Last year, NO ZUCCHINI survived the squash bugs.
I got sugar snap peas, but, after planting over 100 sweet pea seeds, I only got one plant.
THIS year, I have super hot peppers, all ready to boil up into bug spray!!

 

[SuperChemicalGirl]

Too early this year for massive failure, but I'll gladly share last years, hopefully some of it will make you smile:


A gorgeous pumpkin with a potbelly problem:

Bugs Galore:

Death of a tomato:

Bad soil:

Mother Nature:

Cutters:

Disease:

My first year growing carrots (they're in a cereal bowl, that's how big they are):

 

[curly_kate]

I am 0 for 5 in successfully growing cauliflower. Which really sucks because I LOVE cauliflower. And that is no results for 5 YEARS of trying.

 

[Jared77]

Watermelons. I've yet to get a good one out of my garden. I even did the Sugar Babies started them plenty early and didn't get a thing last year. Once I get a greenhouse Ill get some but until then I just don't think its worth it. What got me was I had over 2 dozen watermelons last year they did GREAT but none of them were ripe. It was extremely frustrating.

So far this year I lost 1 slicing cuke to the weather it just never bounced back. I've lost 2 gherkin cukes to ground hogs/squirrels/rabbits something dug them up after they were growing good and vining so well. This was after replanting 3 hills after a failure to germinate.

That and my SUPER ridiciously fussy bell peppers. Last year I was plagued by blossom end rot. This year they seemed like they were sucking up water constantly and are slow to bloom. I got a fairly good crop off them for first peppers. After that was when the blossom end rot really affected last years bell pepper crop.

I'm still trying to be patient with the bell peppers this year I could still get a bunch. We'll see.

 

[retiredwith4acres]

My herb raised bed isn't doing well. Chives and oregano and sage are OK, but rest NOT. Cucumbers are producing very slowly but taste wonderful. My sugar snaps were not the best, low production. But, after I had posted on that earlier I learned from others to try to just harvest the entire plant at once and pull it up that was the way they were bred to produce. We will see about next year. My compost pile failed again this year. Rest of garden is best ever.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

My herb garden is really the only thing that is doing well. I put in all new beds this year and had such high hopes. It is so hot and dry, I send hours water and it is making little difference. But on the good side we have had 3 soaking rains this week and everything is starting to perk up. I have 3 cucumbers left and I have replanted and I had one sprout a couple of days ago and it hasn't died. My corn and beans are really growing.

I ordered some replacement seed from rareseeds.com. They are 50 day cucumbers and I am reading a book about growing vegetables 365 days a year so I will just extend my season that way. I am not losing hope, I have had bad years before.

 

[OldGuy43]

My second attempt at gardening, the first with a raised garden. My basic plan worked well. The screen wire kept out most of the weeds and bugs. However, I made the following mistakes.

Overly ambitious. Planted way to much for the space I have.
Didn't thin near enough.
Didn't research just how big some of the plants get.

Oh well, there's always next year.

 

[StonyGarden]

Cucumbers produced very little and then shriveled and died. I over planted tomatoes so half of them rotted on the vine since I couldn't reach them. Bugs are everywhere in my flower beds as is Bermuda grass. I extended my flower beds early this year and the grass has taken it all back. I planted a million different varieties of flowers both annual and perennial from seed and only half a dozen plants have grown. Only one is flowering.

Did I mention the weeds? It took me 3 hours to weed on 8 x 2 flower bed.

 

[canesisters]

Oh well, there's always next year.

My mantra this year... :/
Most things did 'well'... but on the whole my complete lack of knowledge and planning made for a large mess of grass/weeds/bugs. I've given up getting anything else out of it and am hoping to get the chicken run expansion done early so they can have a go it before frost takes those yummy bugs away.