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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: DD. on September 15, 2012, 12:54

Title: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: DD. on September 15, 2012, 12:54
Or this could happen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/19601368
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: LilacSandy on September 15, 2012, 13:10
Thats one ugly baby
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: DD. on September 15, 2012, 13:11
D'you know, I think that's what my mother said 60 years ago.
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: plum crumble on September 15, 2012, 13:18
 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ::)
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: gazza975526570 on September 15, 2012, 13:28
OMG!!!!!  :ohmy:
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: arugula on September 15, 2012, 13:35
It looks as if it will move unexpectedly, as though it is in a sci-fi film.   :D
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: mumofstig on September 15, 2012, 13:54
Tis horrid :ohmy:
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: DD. on September 15, 2012, 14:01
D'you know, I think that's what.........

Sorry, already done that line.
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: mumofstig on September 15, 2012, 14:25
I have no choice, I can't harvest any more, the recent cold nights have done for'em :(
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: GrannieAnnie on September 15, 2012, 15:10
I know one of mine was big, but not THAT big!   

It does look like something out of a syfy film.  What was the film with those big ugly pods in?  I keep thinking of Day of the Triffids, but it wasn't that one was it?

That was the film that inspired the road sign, 'Danger' Heavy Plant Crossing!!!    :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: Growster... on September 15, 2012, 16:45
Call that a marrow...?

Paaah!

That's just a courgette down here, we usually chuck those back, as it makes sense to keep the proper big ones...;0)
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: DD. on September 15, 2012, 16:51
As big as that wooden nose of yours?  :lol:
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: Growster... on September 15, 2012, 17:06
As big as that wooden nose of yours?  :lol:

Ha ha ha DD!

It goes dark when we bring home courgettes, and there's usually a traffic jam outside, while the lorry reverses into the drive!

I heard that they're going to hold a concert inside one of the smaller courgettes we've grown, not for many people mind you, just a couple of hundred...;0)
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: DD. on September 15, 2012, 17:13
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/14773b2971c73b-43-Pinocchio-300x291.jpg)
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: Growster... on September 15, 2012, 17:18
It's no use showing pictures like that DD, because the cinema showing the film has just rung up to ask if they could use one of the larger ones for an all-night concert, with seating for five hundred!

They were showing 'Pinnochio' last week, and nobody turned up, because it was taking too long to get round the traffic jam outside Growster Turrets, while the various wheelbarrows were being trundled in...;0)
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: DD. on September 15, 2012, 17:33
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/2011-02-23-10-54-01-10-although-pinocchio-was-not-a-financial-success-whe.jpg)
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: arugula on September 15, 2012, 19:47
It looks as if it will move unexpectedly, as though it is in a sci-fi film.   :D

I know one of mine was big, but not THAT big!   

It does look like something out of a syfy film.

Invaders from Mars? I think it might have been... Really old B&W American film where there were vegetable like pods appearing in the desert and human like creatures appearing in the local town (which were "hatching" out of these pods....).

 :lol:
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: GrannieAnnie on September 15, 2012, 22:07
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the one I was thinking of!

Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: Growster... on September 16, 2012, 06:24
It looks as if it will move unexpectedly, as though it is in a sci-fi film.   :D

I know one of mine was big, but not THAT big!   

It does look like something out of a syfy film.

Invaders from Mars? I think it might have been... Really old B&W American film where there were vegetable like pods appearing in the desert and human like creatures appearing in the local town (which were "hatching" out of these pods....).

 :lol:

Surely you mean 'Dynasty', Arugula...;0)
Title: Re: Keep harvesting those courgettes
Post by: arugula on September 16, 2012, 12:53
 :lol: Or the new Dallas, if some of the reports are to be believed!  ::) :lol: