My gardening failures.
![The perfect looking courgette, until you turn it over.](https://the-secret-garden.net/media/posts/20/my-gardening-disasters-and-failures.jpg)
Every gardener has disasters and failures in the vegetable patch and I am no exception.
This page is designed to make you feel better when it all goes tits up despite your best efforts.
Below: My latest tomato variety - the Chernobyl.
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Below: Is that fireworks I can hear. No it's the cabbages exploding.
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Below: Lets have Kohl-rabi with dinner tonight.
![](https://the-secret-garden.net/media/posts/20/The-slugs-have-eaten-more-than-their-fair-share.jpg)
Or not. The slugs have eaten more than their fair share again!
AAAARRRGGGGHHH:
Below: I didn't want cauliflower anyway.
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The 2021 leek harvest:
Despite planting nearly 200 leek seedlings from 4 different varieties, this was the sum total of the crop in early 2021. Yes they are leeks, even though they are developing bulges at the base.
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8 leeks, and they were s tough as old boots.
Below: A Yorkshire summer strikes again.
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2020, the year the broccoli was rationed:
It actually grew very well and tasted amazing, it never got very big and the side shoots were like pencils.
![](https://the-secret-garden.net/media/posts/20/the-year-the-broccolli-was-rationed..jpg)
Below: Effin mice! who knew something so small could eat so much.
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The kiwi crop failure of 2016.
I have 2 large and well established kiwi vines in my big poly-tunnel and the harvest is usually about 20 to 30 lb of well formed fruit.
![](https://the-secret-garden.net/media/posts/20/the-really-bad-kiwi-harvest-of-2016.jpg)
Not this year. 12 fruit, the largest of which was about the size of gooseberry.
Below: One and a bit out of 60 planted isn't so bad for fennel.
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The disastrous tomato crop of 2012.
In the UK this was a year without sunshine and it rained all the time. Not a single ripe tomato, indoors or out and everything seemed to rot on the vines.
Below: FFS!
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Below: Goats! Don't let anyone tell you goats are good to have around. They are escape artists that will eat everything.
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I had two for just over 7 months and they became so infamous they has their own Facebook page.