It doesn't always go to plan

[Geordie_Rob]

Ok you're right. Maybe not screwed. Just a month behind while I had to re-sow everything & go again, if I was going to. Which I'm not. I'll fill the areas with direct sown lettuces, radishes & other quick growing crops so it's not sitting empty.

I've no idea what killed them. Filled the root area with exactly the same compost as used to grow them from seed (all from the same batch anyway). No frosts or anything recently. Not sure if maybe slugs/snails or birds may have had them as a few of my pea plants look well nibbled, but that seems to happen every year.