Successes so far this year and Disasters

Radish, Courgette, Beetroot, Mixed Salad Leaves, Lettuce, Red Onions, White Onions, Shallots, Brussels, Cabbage, Pod Peas, Sugar Snap Peas & Leeks have all been succesful or are progressing very well. :0)

Runners have flowered well but have not produced many beans, Dwarf beans are slightly better than Runners but not exactly plentiful, Carrots are slow and looking to fail, Spring Onions are best not mentioned :0(

how do I get the bastards off me brassicas?!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have courgettes by the barrow load, the late frost killed or so I thought, so I planted more and now cant keep up!.
Peas loads of....broad beans lots of , tomatos sprayed them this year to keep away blight and my polytunnel is bursting!
Chillies, peppers, aubergines looking good.
Turnips excellent, spinach great, sweet corn looking good, asparagus looking good next year I can actually start eating it!
Parsnips looking good.
Salsify and sconzonera, new to me but doing well.
Beetroot lots of.
Leeks doing well.
Cherokee trail of tears beans, excellent.
Early potatoes healthy but not overwhelmed I think the dry weather?
Maincrop Cara and Sarpona, last year I did not have blight resistant and paid the price.
Squashes have been late in getting going, as have the carrots.
Overall it has been a bountiful year.
Nothing has failed on me.
Although my Brassicas have whitefly which screwed up my sprouts last year, any advice?

The advice for whitefly control always seems to centre around a 'soft soap' solution. Now I'm not going to pretend I know exactlywhat that means/entails. Is it simply spaying the washing up water over your brassica's???

Just had a 'Google' around and found that one good piece of advice is to vacuum off whitefly every day or so with a hand-held rechargable vacuum!!

"I haven't seen it love, can't think what might have happened to it".

;0)

Spray with soapy water (EG Fairy liquid). Introduce a ladybird colony and of course curse them by saying begone ya bastards three times :) !!!

I have 2 rows of runner beans, one behind the other, one row has beans galore the other non, plenty of flowers

Here in Portishead, Near Bristol we have had
good successes in
overwintered Broad beans, Runner beans earlier than usual, Peas if roots kept moist, summer cabbage if netted against pigeons and cabbage white butterflies, black and red currants very abundant, as were gooseberries, 2nd early Potatoes Charlotte were brilliant 7lbs off one seed.

Not so good crops in
Onion sets have matured but on the smaller than normal side but not so bad on white rot, Raspberries were small (lack of water)

Spray with washing up liquid and water. I don't know if the green or the lemon strong smelling liquids work better, but if you find good results, you might want to share with us all.
Greenwellies

soft soap for spraying white fly comes in a tin about 5ml in 2gallons of water sprayed on brassicas every 14 days keeps whitefly at bay also tagetees planted between brassicas helps to keep fly at bay due to the aroma they give off.

Had dreadful problems with whitefly last year especially on my sprouts. Where do you buy this soft soap? I always grow tagetes but hadn't thought to plant amongst brassicas. Thanks for the tip.

Had lots of success last year, particularly peas and beans, especially my runner beans. Grew variety Armstrong and it was prolific. Most disappointing was my potato yield which was really poor. I included lots of organic matter but it still wasn't enough to keep the tubers sufficiently supplied with moisture with the very dry summer we had. Oh... and I WOULD have had a fantastic strawberry crop, except that a squirrel decided to pick them all as they ripened and create neat stock piles of them throughout the bed, where of course they rotted. He won't get them this year!

Hi
Your Allotment Association should be able to get soft soap from the horticultural supplier If you have difficulty just google horticultural soft soap and buy it online
If you are not a member of your local Allotment Association I advise you to join because the benefits available can be enormous not just for Allotmenteers but anybody who is a keen gardener