Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: New shoot on June 30, 2011, 08:47
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She's back :D Anyone else seen her yet. Wonder where she goes for the winter :unsure:
(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m198/suec_02/Plot%20pictures/001-3.jpg)
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I know she has been in my little polytunnel for the last six to seven weeks ... nice and snug in there :nowink:
Nice stripy courgette there, Newshoot!
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Do you want me to tell you what size our courgette plants are at the moment? :closedeyes:
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Do you want me to tell you what size our courgette plants are at the moment? :closedeyes:
;)
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Do you want me to tell you what size our courgette plants are at the moment? :closedeyes:
;)
If it doesn't warm up soon, bearing in mind its July tomorrow, they won't get big enough to produce fruit at all. A couple of the plants were producing male flowers like mad a few weeks ago, but that charming - cold and very wet - weather we had last weekend set them back again.
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Do you want me to tell you what size our courgette plants are at the moment? :closedeyes:
;)
If it doesn't warm up soon, bearing in mind its July tomorrow, they won't get big enough to produce fruit at all. A couple of the plants were producing male flowers like mad a few weeks ago, but that charming - cold and very wet - weather we had last weekend set them back again.
I'll leave her a note and ask her to sprinkle some fairy dust your way ;)
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Do you want me to tell you what size our courgette plants are at the moment? :closedeyes:
;)
If it doesn't warm up soon, bearing in mind its July tomorrow, they won't get big enough to produce fruit at all. A couple of the plants were producing male flowers like mad a few weeks ago, but that charming - cold and very wet - weather we had last weekend set them back again.
At a guess - your courgettes plants are about the same size as mine. Big sigh. At least the leeks are doing well.
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Thanks New Shoot! ;) Yes, Springlands *sigh* :(.....
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Ask her to pop in here on the way up would you ! I've remove 1 male flower so far, no sign of anything female.
Mind you it was touch and go for a long time as I thought the plants themselves would curl up their toes.
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Our courgettes have never reached the size they are now (nearly 3' across), without a single male or female flower showing!
They look pretty happy, but wouldn't they be happier if they were producing...;)
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Our courgettes have never reached the size they are now (nearly 3' across), without a single male or female flower showing!
They look pretty happy, but wouldn't they be happier if they were producing...;)
I expect you and I and all growing courgettes would be happier if they were producing fruits!! :)
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we're drowning in courgettes here - 9 plants producing fruit like mad. My freezer is full already and friends are hiding when I call round in case I'm bringing more courgettes ::)
Bloomin fairies :)
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I've never seen striped ones before. Ours are just all green or the gold type. We can get seed for the light green ball ones but I find them harder to serve.
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That looks like the Long Green Bush marrows I grow. They have much tougher skins than "standard" courgettes.
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It's a Striato di Napoli courgette and I'll let you know about whether the skin is tough as it's heading for a pasta bake tonight ;)
9 courgette plants aelf :ohmy: No wonder the fairy has been a bit elusive - she's knackered after getting round your courgette patch :lol:
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I usually grow Striata d'Italia (same thing different label ;) ) but it looks like you found that one a bit late, so it got bigger than I like to pick them.
You could always send me a bit of it to go in my pasta though :wub:
:lol:
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She's visited me too, 8 courgettes from 3 plants, there were none there on Sunday ::)
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my courgette plants are just about getting going im hoping i get some this year for my soup
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I have a couple of set fruit but nothing big enough to eat yet
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You could always send me a bit of it to go in my pasta though :wub:
:lol:
oooopppps too late burp. Got some cold leftovers in the fridge if you want ;)
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No, your alright ;)
I found that the Aubergine fairy had left me a present, hiding away under the leaves, so I had that instead :)
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No, your alright ;)
I found that the Aubergine fairy had left me a present, hiding away under the leaves, so I had that instead :)
Now that is just showing off :lol: :lol: :lol: :tongue2:
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i had a 7 inch by 2 inch courgette before i went on holiday for a week,i told the mother in law to take it of while we were away,i come back its still there and its a piggin marrow about 14 inches by 4 inches,can you still eat it or am i in fairyland :(
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It'll still be edible, yes :D
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my husband bakes them if they accidently get too big. they are lovely.
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i come back its still there and its a piggin marrow about 14 inches by 4 inches
You have to keep picking them or they'll stop producing ;)
I have 3 plants and 2 of them have fruits on that are 1/2" thick by 3" long.
A couple of days and i'll be picking them, first of the season.
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I found my first courgette this morning - sooooo small you can hardly see it but it is there. :D :D
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Best go back tomorrow Springlands or it'll be a marrow ;) :lol:
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Mr Sunny said he'd like some yellow courgettes this year and said he thought three plants would be about right (as well as the green ones of course :ohmy: )
He'll be best friends with that fairy for a while --- then he'll start laying out fairy traps around August :lol: :lol:
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Best go back tomorrow Springlands or it'll be a marrow ;) :lol:
:lol: :lol:
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Had 3 courgettes in dinner over the weekend - as a complete beginner to growing anything at all the courgettes are, without exception, the most extraordinary, fastest growing veg on the patio - it's brilliant :lol: But how long will they continue to fruit? Have 2-3 courgettes on each plant at the moment and 4 plants all together.
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Keep watering them, feed them weekly and they will be yours forever.... well at least until the first frosts :lol:
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Keep feeding and watering and most will go on til first frosts...........a few die from exhaustion a bit before that though :( but you'll be thoroughly fed up with them by then anyway :lol: :lol:
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Keep feeding and watering and most will go on til first frosts...........a few die from exhaustion a bit before that though :( but you'll be thoroughly fed up with them by then anyway :lol: :lol:
Hello MoS :D
Good to see we mostly agreed there :lol:
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oh wow - now I'm really going to have to be creative with them! The family aren't convinced they like them....yet!!
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Keep feeding and watering and most will go on til first frosts...........a few die from exhaustion a bit before that though :( but you'll be thoroughly fed up with them by then anyway :lol: :lol:
Hello MoS :D
Good to see we mostly agreed there :lol:
Yes a very good job!...........sorry for the echo........ I'd already double clicked before I realised :nowink:
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I've not had one courgette yet and no sign of any fruits yet. Mind you I can't think of a year when I've not got any :D
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Our courgette fairy is definitely a girl this year, because all our flowers so far have been female. It's really weird.
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Ours has been a busy fairy this year!
9 down, probably hundreds to go :D
Planted 3 varieties with original plan of 1 of each variety (after reading here last year about courgette gluts!) every seed planted germinated (4 of each) so gave half of them away, then they were planted out a bit early so I thought, "better put two of each out just in case one doesn't make it ....................."
Now have a lovely lush green courgette jungle! ::)
Luckily we love courgettes!
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oh wow - now I'm really going to have to be creative with them! The family aren't convinced they like them....yet!!
Check out the recipes in the button at the top of the page :D :D :D :D
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Whew! At last we've got some boy flowers, and what looks like a very promising ball courgette :)