Vegetables you have tried to grow and failed.

[Oliver Buckle]

I guess the title says it really, but there is usually some reason, like trying to start basil too early, once I found it needed proper Summer warmth I was away, 'til I sussed that, failure.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

I guess the title says it really, but there is usually some reason, like trying to start basil too early, once I found it needed proper Summer warmth I was away, 'til I sussed that, failure.

New Zealand spinach, I'm guessing it doesn't like drought
Quinoa, chicory, chervil... I don't know didn't come up, have to try again

Brassicas without spray particularly broccoli especially in bad years

Onions and leeks from seed, winter's too cold and springs too short

Heck, peas just get started before summer knocks em out

Golden bantam sweet corn, just would never pollinate for me
Minnesota 13 corn, got completely eaten by deer, well I got one cob. I had deer eat all my cantaloupe plants one year the night i transplanted them

Iron and clay cowpeas, didn't fruit this far north, other cowpeas no problem

Beets don't like being broadcast

Curculios got all the plums
Late frosts get the peaches
Rabbits ate my peanuts

I've failed at a lot of stuff, but that's okay. Failure is the best teacher. It's all part of it

 

[dirty hands]

I think deer smell the fresh dug dirt. Ive also had plants eaten the day after transplanting.

I have had so many failures I dont know where to begin.

My most success was when I had chickens and good fences.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I think deer smell the fresh dug dirt.

In my garden it's badgers, they hunt worms by smell and dig big holes in the nicest places where the most worms are, and I have things growing, lost all my winter carrots.

 

[Tundra20]

seems everytime i try a hybird tomato like a yellow one thers various ones ive tried 2-3 ofem but they nver produce put another red in say beef steak sweet 100 and does great so not the soil

brussel sprouts are always a tough one but think that mabe cause our weather just isnt cool enough for long enough idk this yr two plants have produced but very slow

theres more but these two come to mind first for me

as said above and very true !!!
I've failed at a lot of stuff, but that's okay. Failure is the best teacher. It's all part of it

 

[Meadowlark]

I honestly cannot think of any veggie that eventually I haven't been able to grow to a harvest. Some have more failures along the way than others but eventually, success happens.

The one veggie that defied me for years but finally successfully produced was celery. It is typical of a class of veggies that are difficult to grow here because they each require well over 100 days of cool weather...not freezing at any time. Celery took me 140 days to maturity but finally made it using large containers that could be easily moved to protection.

Another one as mentioned by @Tundra20 is Brussels Sprouts. They require about 130 days to maturity with cool temps not falling below about 15 deg F. One polar vortex event can end a season for them. It is hit or miss with them, but I always plant some...and some years hit and some years miss. This year is still a possible hit depending on how they recover from the recent polar vortex.

The old saying "where there is a will, there is a way" is applicable here.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I said "And failed", not "and always failed". That's the really interesting part, finring out why you failed and learning to give the plant the conditions it needs, not always easy.

 

[GFTL]

I always have a problem ripening peppers. They do fine turning green but before they can do a total color change they rot.

 

[Tundra20]

I always have a problem ripening peppers. They do fine turning green but before they can do a total color change they rot.

i had a issue with that as well put some oyster shell around them and cleared up idk mabe coinkydink

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

i had a issue with that as well put some oyster shell around them and cleared up idk mabe coinkydink

You have calcium deficiency that bad? We've done similar for blossom end rot on tomatoes but never with peppers

It's hard for me to get sweet peppers to turn red they often sunburn first especially when the plants are young, but i like em green anyway. Hot peppers i haven't had trouble with, but i will say in Ky, peppers just grow and 300 miles north, i have to work for them, so Michigan maybe gets too cold at night

 

[Ruderunner]

Onions and garlic are my nemesis. Start from seed, start from bulbs fail every time.

To the poster complaining about beets, I had that problem but figured out the birds were eating the seeds. I now make a few shallow troughs, place seeds in trough and rake dirt over. I'm doing that with spinach this year too.

 

[Tundra20]

You have calcium deficiency that bad? We've done similar for blossom end rot on tomatoes but never with peppers

It's hard for me to get sweet peppers to turn red they often sunburn first especially when the plants are young, but i like em green anyway. Hot peppers i haven't had trouble with, but i will say in Ky, peppers just grow and 300 miles north, i have to work for them, so Michigan maybe gets too cold at night

ya well it wasnt reall badd but as urs they would get a bad spot guess it could have been blossom rot right before they turned not all of them did this only 3-4 outta 12 plants
but crushed some oyster shell mixed up with water and poured straight on cleared up

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Onions and garlic are my nemesis. Start from seed, start from bulbs fail every time.

To the poster complaining about beets, I had that problem but figured out the birds were eating the seeds. I now make a few shallow troughs, place seeds in trough and rake dirt over. I'm doing that with spinach this year too.

I got a garlic that's hard to fail with, it persists almost wild here with total neglect, and it's a decent culinary garlic.

As for onions, try bunching onions because bulbed onions don't like it here

 

[Sheal]

I don't know anything about growing peppers but I wonder if the issues with them colour ripening could be similar to tomatoes? Have any of you tried hanging bananas amongst them to see if that has any effect?

 

[PGB1]

I've an ublemished failure record with snow peas & sugar snap peas. Every year, year after year.