By Tercol
Norfolk,
United Kingdom 
Any one else having probscwith our weather? Planted 2 lots of courgette seeds neither have taken I think I may have bought old compost as even the marigolds didnt grow and the compost went very hard on the surface. This year is a catastrophe, lettuce have all bolted, broad beans went black and died (these are all in a tunnel) quick as the strawberries grew something was eating holes in them, and cabbages are full of holes like the pigeons have gotten them, I have used slug pellets, crushedveggs, miracle grow any green fingers I may have had have dev gone Brown! And to top it all the laurel cuttings I was so pleased with have dropped their leaves so are one sticks, they had a good root system on them and are outside in pots in the open, maybe half have gone like this and the others are fine where do I go from here?
7 Jul, 2016
Answers
Perhaps you should plant an Elder to keep the witches away...
No really it isn't funny is it. I have lace cabbages too and parsnips never even germinated. Spinach has bolted. Snails keen on the strawberries, birds scoffing the redcurrants (serves me right for not netting them)
But the rhubarb is giant and the gooseberries looking good - I am thankful for small mercies!
7 Jul, 2016
The trees have grown wonderfully well these last two years, hydrangea like the weather too
As to the rest, after last years disappointment I've not grown toms or peppers this year, the taste was worse thsn the supermarkets!
7 Jul, 2016
Thank you all at least I knoe I'm not alone oh well there's always next year
7 Jul, 2016
Been an odd few years weather wise, maybe that's what we have to expect these days.....more extremes?
8 Jul, 2016
I think we're all having problems of one kind or another. Some of my perennial plants are reaching for the sky when they are normally much, much smaller in height. Then some of the clematis flowers on two different plants are stunted and many other blooms are over and done with in next to no time. It's a very strange year.
7 Jul, 2016