Nasturtiums

Anyone know why this year has been such a poor year for them? I thought it was just in my garden but it seems quite widespread that this is a particularly bad year for them.
Cheers

Andrew

 

That's a surprise to me Andrew because I've grown a few varieties and they have been really good especially "Banana Split" which has romped away.

 

Bought a couple of packets of Dayglo mix and they've done really well all year, too well infact so I had to cut them right back. It's all down to the weather I guess.

 

Last year and the year before my nasturtiums were rampant, the blessed things were everywhere but this year they've been very poor, maybe my local slugs have developed a taste for them

 

My nasturtiums too were awful, I thought it was perhaps because I bought the seeds on ebay!!

Val

 

Clueless ate all mine.

 

Mine have done miserably too. I always rave about nasturtiums because they're usually brilliant, but not this year.

I think its just purely down to the weather. Nasturtium is not fussy, but it does ask for two things. Warmth and availability of water. This year got off to a late start, which the nasturtiums wont have liked. Then once it did get started its been hot and dry.

I've seen loads of struggling nasturtiums all around, so its not down to bad seeds, local microclimates, care regimes or anything. The only thing in common is the weather that they'll have all had to endure.

 

I commented else where on the forum, that I have not bothered with 'stirtiums, this year. Glad I havn't with the amount of Cabbage White butterflies there has been.

Not sure what the problem has been, but whenever I have had them they always do well.

 

Well I'll swap the nasturtiums for a nice summer any day

 

im not sure what to say about mine tbh as mine both did & didn't do well some put on a great show & are still going strong with next to no greenfly or caterpillar damage whilst others were covered head to toe in black fly & munched to within' an inch of their life by caterpillars...i binned the ones that were struggling a week or so ago (i just couldn't look at those black aphids any longer ) its odd how some thrived but others didn't