Joining in with Abi, over at Creating Paper Dreams, for her lovely and inventive meme. You might need a hanky (if only to hide your titters) ...
Compost litres: 250
Seed potatoes: 30
Torchlit slug-hunting nights: 132
Crop: above.
We are so over grow-your-own.
Aww Don't give up! Next year might be a bumper crop. We're doing very well for homegrown. Everyone who walks by our garden comments on the giant squashes. It's all down to Nick's green fingers, not mine lol. Who knows, if you try again, you'll be selling them at farmer's markets :) Pxx
Posted by: Paul B | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 01:04 PM
From little acorns and all that!
Posted by: Ruth | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 01:09 PM
That is just too sad Alexa! But I'm so glad you have a sense of humor about it!
Posted by: Cheri | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 01:17 PM
that is a lot of nights! i would love to grow my own food, but seriously slugs!! huh I just can't!
Posted by: lea lacoste | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 01:46 PM
Slugs. Ack. Aren't they the worst?! There's always next year..at least that's what we tell ourselves round here..
Posted by: Sian | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 02:16 PM
It's the taking part that counts though right :-)
Posted by: Jen Hart | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 02:16 PM
I have to admit I had a chuckle and love that you saw the funny side! Slugs are the bane of our garden too. I am also keen to hear more about those torchlit slug hunting evenings!
Posted by: Abi | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 03:21 PM
Well, here's a shoutout for the TRY! As a friend oft quoted: nothing beats a failure - not saying yours was - but a TRY! Just think of all you learned ...I had to chuckle, too over the lesson learned...so over...
Fun and done!
Cheers~
Posted by: Honoré | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 03:38 PM
Uff! Slugs. Sure that the next crop will be better.
Posted by: Conchi | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 03:58 PM
It certainly made me smile....we've given up on potatoes as well....courgettes on the other hand....
Posted by: Jacky S | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 03:58 PM
Oh no! My good friend, who has the first (and only, I think) climate change farm, says there is no point in growing ordinary crops like potatoes yourself. Instead he grows the unusual things that he can't easily get in the shops.
Posted by: Fiona@staring at the sea | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 04:49 PM
Did you grow them in a bed or a sack? We usually have good results with the sack although never masses! Very clever summary for 20 words and made me smile (sorry it was at your expense!)
Posted by: Julia Heald | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 08:09 PM
Oh no! This is the kind of experiences we have! Certainly no green fingers! Bet its frustrating when you have to buy potatos from the supermarket now!
Posted by: Mel J | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 08:16 PM
I love growing my own but found it is famine or feast with results like yours or a glut. Your post did make me smile Alexa!
Posted by: sandie | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 08:49 PM
oh alexa, a lot of effort by the sounds of it, for very little reward. slugs are a pest, they eat my hosta's!
Posted by: Louise | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 10:04 PM
LOL, with a great deal of sympathy. This is the second year in a row that our vegetable garden has been a huge disappointment. We're going to try a smaller one in our own yard next year, but give up the community garden plot. We're in the process of planning a longer-than-usual holiday next summer anyway, so it will be easier to find a neighborhood kid who'd like to earn some money watering plants here, than to find someone to tend to the community garden plot. The first year was the best garden, and it was terrific. They've all been downhill since, and I can't explain it.
Posted by: Karen | Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 02:20 AM
What a great way to illustrate & tell this story! Yes, we are over grow-your-own, too! LOL
Posted by: Melissa Gross | Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 02:33 AM
YUK! I hate slugs!!! They have decimated some of my plants this year, grrr! Sorry you have not had better luck with grow your own potatoes!
Posted by: Linda | Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 09:16 AM
So much effort for so little reward--though you are at least able to laugh about it! I hope some of your other crops did better.
We haven't had a garden in years, mostly because we had way too much of some things (tomatoes) and not near enough of others (corn). Call me lazy, but the ease of store-bought trumps the satisfaction of grow-your-own.
Posted by: Wanda | Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 11:30 AM
LOL! the only thing that has ever been worth it for me to grow is garlic and sage. everything else is not worth the cost or the time & effort. You have my sympathy.
Posted by: stacey | Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 04:07 PM
Love this post - it had me laughing out loud.
Posted by: karen | Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 05:13 PM
So funny!
Posted by: Debs14 | Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 07:28 PM
Oh dear, that's not good. My winter garden has been a bit like that ... although we do need to get going on eating our broccoli. My sister planted potatoes once and the next year more popped up so unless you were really thorough you may find you get some next year ... maybe?
Posted by: Melissa | Friday, 12 September 2014 at 02:01 AM
I love this! It made me laugh but I felt bad for it! Gardening is not my thing either and I especially hate it when bugs get to the brand new plants I planted, I feel your frustration!
Posted by: Nathalie | Monday, 15 September 2014 at 06:05 AM
Hahaha...gotta "hate" those slug-hunting nights eh? Hope your harvest tasted delicious at the very least. ;)
Posted by: Yvonne Yam | Tuesday, 16 September 2014 at 05:45 AM
Oh dear - perhaps big bags would work better?
Posted by: Missus Wookie | Tuesday, 16 September 2014 at 08:13 PM
Oh dear! Thank goodness for supermarkets!
Posted by: Prairie Jill | Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 04:55 AM
Bummer.
Posted by: Relyn | Saturday, 08 November 2014 at 01:42 AM