Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Sadgit on July 25, 2007, 15:45
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When will I start to see some fruit? had mine in the ground for months now and all I have if leaves and no sign of fruit yet.....
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Mine has just set fruit, so give it a week.
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Squashes are like melons and need heat and sun. Are you getting lots out your way? If not, then it's unlikely you'll get much this year. I checked my melon plants yesterday and this is the 2nd time I've gotten all male plants - from store bought plants! The duds got ripped out and are now composting. Right beside them I have Sweet Slice cukes thriving so there should have been some cross pollination, but there wasn't. Next year I plant my own seeds in groups of 6 and will thin only when I know what genders I have. With my luck, it'll all be duds again :roll:
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Mine also did nothing for such a long time but there is now one nice fruit forming on it!!! Yey! I have never eaten BNut Squash before!!!
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so there is still hope? as I have about 10 plants (i think)
and Trillium, if you knew Middlesbrough you would know we hardly get sun in the summer, let alone this HORRIBLE damp summer we are getting in the UK :lol:
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last year we had to wait until late september to harvest our butternut squash. I had given up on them. But they did well in the end.
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last year we had to wait until late september to harvest our butternut squash. I had given up on them. But they did well in the end.
Similar experience. In the last couple of weeks I planted a "spare" in my greenhouse soil so that it can wander around the tomatoes without doing any harm
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A question, fellow butternutters. If I let mine wander over the soil do I need to put something under the fruit to protect it from damp and beasties? Never grown anything like this before.
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All my squashes and pumpkins are doing pants so for this year - not much bigger than when I transplanted them out - I think they're still sulking 'cause of all this wet weather and no warmth and no sunshine.
In previous years I've never bothered protecting the developing squashes and pumpkins but as it's so wet this year it may be worth popping a slate or tile or straw or equivalent underneath to try and keep the slimy beasties off.
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Mine are covered in male flowers but I live in hope as the female flowers tend to form when the plants grow longer.I stick a bit ot broken plant pot under ant fruit,curved side up to keep the fruit slightly off the ground and stop ant water pooling round it.