Losing my touch!

A few plants have committed suicide overnight, presumably I put too much blood fish and bone onto them.

My petunias weren't great to start with, so I reckon I am just going to have to buy some this year, but my real problem is tomatoes and sunflowers - again, they weren't exactly excelling themselves in the first place, but of those I did have, a good number of them have turned their toes up. Am I too late to re-sow?

 

Aye, that follows what I was thinking - what a pain in the bum

 

We have only just sown our sunflowers so you haven't missed the boat on those. Last year I sowed them direct on 8th May and they did very well.
I agree with blacktulip about tomatoes, its too late to sow any now for a worthwhile crop.

 

Thanks all. I am pretty fed up with myself to be honest - nothing is really getting going this year, and the odd thing that has, I have pretty much killed stone dead.

Begonias hate me (they always did), to the point that some of the ones I received have died in my care, my tomatoes have barely got out of the starting blocks (even Maskotka which are usually bullet proof!), marigolds have only just germinated, and now I have assassinated a couple of trays of petunias and a couple of fuschias into the bargain! The only things that are looking semi-healthy is dahlias, but even they are only just getting their first true leaves.

Maybe it is time to plant shrubs and forget about flowers and gardening.

 

I bought a 10 petunias, 10 geraniums and 10 trailing lobelia in the supermarket on the way home, then got home to an email from T&M offering a 72 plant lucky dip of summer annuals for £1.99, so I ordered three of those (it would have been rude not to), got a free hanging basket collection (15 plants), and then 72 petunia pictoee edged for £9.99.

I might just be back in the game!

I think next year, I will start to move over to bulbs though - less hassle, and easier on my old body.

 

J Arthur Bowers MPC - pretty rubbish to be honest; the first bag was OK, but every bag thereafter has been very poor. I wouldn't say it was woody, but I am considering using it as chimnea fuel later in the year

It appears that my 'emergency' re-potting has worked, as some stuff has perked up today. A couple of fucshias still look a bit huffy, but I shall bear with them and see how they get on. I had a look at some of the tomatoes too - although small, they might just take a spurt when the temperatures increase (particularly the night temperatures). I have the heating set to 10ºC, so only just keeping the chill off things really, and still too low for vigorous growth too I reckon?

@pete - definitely not overwatering, I have been very careful about watering this year. I have also put slightly opaque plastic sheeting on the inside of the roof to attenuate the light a wee bit - my prior problem was stuff drying out far too quickly.

Of course, I bought 30 plants yesterday and ordered another couple of hundred, so I may end up over-run with plants now that I have saved a load.