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Best Failure - The Small Print!
Veggie Offline
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#1
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The Moneyless Chicken says:- 
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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Bren Offline
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This was supposed to be an All year round Cauliflower.


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Mark_Riga Offline
Member from Cheshire
#3
I'd normally be happy with about 2kg dried broadbeans from 40 plants.

This year just 107beans weighing 245g. Not much left when I have taken out the seed for next year. Not enough for 1 lot of houmous even. I suspect robber bees have a lot to answer for.

   
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Mikey Offline
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Carrots this year have been pathetic, planted in a raised bed supposedly Carrot root fly can’t get over obstacles 2ft high. Flanked all around by onions, supposedly the scent confuses them. Poppycock, these Welsh carrot root flies clearly laugh in the face of obstacles and have no sense of smell.


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A pocket knife is not a weapon in the right hands it’s an essential garden tool.
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Small chilli Offline
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Luffa that thought actually producing luffas was to much like hard work.

   
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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PyreneesPlot Offline
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#6
Thai Green Pea Aubergines
Sown 27th Feb
Germinated 25th April
Potted on 25th May
And again 3rd September.
The best one has five leaves ...

       
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?

Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France
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Scarlet Offline
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Well, my failure for the year was courgettes, one so bitter brushing my teeth didn't take the taste away. So I sowed a couple more!

I was going to pull these second batch of plants because it was obvious from the growth rate they weren't courgettes but TMT suggested to let them grow to see what they were.
These turned out to be ornamental gourds.  I've never grown gourds before....but look a this!

       

Yes, they are ugly Big Grin and I can't eat them but they will make fab Halloween decorations, they are the size of a medium orange - a friend has just been gifted a mushroom tray full. She was delighted with them. So definitely the "best" failure. I will actually buy a pack of decorative gourd seeds to grow again.
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JJB Offline
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Turnips that didn't fill out.

   
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
Greetings from Salisbury
Qualified member of the Confused Nutter's Club 
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Admin Offline
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There's always next year Smile
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