Going Potty On The Lotty

After a week out of action, owing to recovery from an operation, I went down to the allotment today. One word, carnage. Squashes, fairly recently planted are yellowing and getting nibbled. All early potatoes have blight and were dug up. It's been the most pathetic yield ever on these, which is a real disappointment given all the new varieties I was hoping to try. Only the Amorosa yielded anything sizeable - thanks for the recommendation Zazen999 - I should listen to you more often! It's one for my list next year. Beetroot was bolting, most of it pulled and cooking as we speak. Leek seedlings look to have rust and they are not even planted into final position yet. Time to pull most of them out and go and buy some...sigh! The broadies that still had lots of life left in them last time I looked, all black and dead. They were pulled out and composted, so no more broadies. The peas are fattening and we should have a fair number of those to go at. The runner beans look thoroughly miserable and boy do I know how they feel. My blackcurrants that I had asked Mr VVG to harvest for me, hadn't been and had fallen off and rotted. The raspberry canes are so high and yet very little yield. What there is has no flavour or has gone mouldy. I don't know whether to laugh hysterically or cry. All my heritage varieties and synodic sowing has faired badly this year. I may resort to biodynamic for 2013 and mix some modern varieties with my heritage, just for back up.
I have pulled the last of the kale. I have weeded four beds out of six. I will be buying large bales of compost I think and mulching everywhere before planting anything else. It's quite obvious that any nutrient is just being washed totally from my soil, which is sandy loam. Nothing else will grow in such dreadful weather conditions, so I give up for now.

PS. I have reported my blight to blightwatch in order to warn others in the area.