[Alex 98]

Like potatoes, I can't resist growing as many as possible, room permitting This weekend I'll sow:-
Butternut
Long Knee (a gift from Heidi)
Rd Kuri
Munchkin
Crown Prince
plus 3  others from Heidi, can't remember the names :?


Plus 4 types of Courgette  
Courgette fritters are great

Hope for a beetr growing year for these than last year!

Alex 98

[compostqueen]

I'm a nutter for growing squashes and courgettes. I just love the different varieties. Lost loads of plants last year due to bad weather    
Jumbo pink banana (just for fun)
Crown Prince (very good eater)
Festival - looks lovely and good eating
Sweet Mama
Delicata Honeyboat
Cinderella
Bon Bon (maybe)
Marina di Chioggia (for looks rather than it's culinary qualities, although I do eat it)
Loads of different courgettes but my faves are Sunburt and this year I'm growing Zephyr. Can't wait  

[courgette]

just butternut to start....1st time-veg-grower!! still waiting for them to germinate as yet too.

[purplebean]

what the heck is jumbo pink banana? I want to grow it just for the name  

[compostqueen]

I ate this. Not all myself I hasten to add  

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[purplebean]

WOW Where do you get the seed from, I want some.

I can just hear my husband saying "Not more seeds"  

[jennyb]

wow thats fab!!

i have seeds i've saved from 4 varieties,  3 of which grew well last year.

the three from last year are butternut



red kabotcha



and this one (acorn?)



and the 4th are seeds from a new zealand that the local PYO farmer gave me that he had bought over to try growing in the UK.

[compostqueen]

the blue NZ ones are good uns

That pretty variegated one looks like Festival or Winter Festival and I really like those. They stay cubed and are lovely fried off and used in a veggie pilaff typa thang  

You get various squashes and they all have different eating qualities. The Crown Prince is great cos it's thin skinned so you gets loads of orange flesh. They keep ages too    It holds its shape so is good in curry.  The Sweet Mama is moshy and tastes like sweet potato so is a good one for mash mixed with spud.  I like to roast my squash off in the oven with red chilli, garlic and drizzled with oil for about 45 mins, cool, whip the skin off and then you can make soup with it or just scoff it if you can't wait

[mrsbaggins]

havent tried to grow ANY veg yet!! I have some squash seeds germinating (hopefully) cant remember name but some smallish patty type. Son also bought me the jumbo banana ones (blesshim) so will have to grow at least a couple of those- at least they should keep the weeds down!  has everyone started theirs off yet then???

[Teen76]

I would like to try to grow Butternut Squash as I tried it as a soup for the first time last year and thought it was really tasty.  I'm afraid I don't know what all the other squashes are and what they taste like.  Now I have a plot I suppose I can experiment a little and try new veg! :oops:

[Yorkie]

I'm trying the small patty pan squashes, and green crooknut (edit: oops, I meant crookneck) squashes this year (from T+M).

Hopefully they'll have more success than last year's plants, which sulked and then died after being planted out  :cry:

Haven't sown them indoors yet.  Sometime later this month or early next, depending on dining room table space  

[Ropster]

Just Butternut for me, is it time to put the seeds in yet as people appear to be doing so

[Stripey_cat]

I've sown a red kuri type (I can't remember the cultivar), and some very elderly butternut sprinter seeds.  If they don't come good within the next fortnight, I reckon I've still got time to buy and plant some new seeds.  Plus a couple of pumpkin varieties (claiming to be good eaters), and courgettes.  Is the pink banana one tasty?

[gus]

I am going to grow squash -Turks Turban, Butternut and Pattison also courgette,- Black beauty,Venus and All green bush. The squash have to tough it out on the allotment  :roll: as do some of the courgettes,  :roll: but i can find space in one of the greenhouse beds to grow one each of the courgettes if i train them up a frame.

[shaun]

just pumkins and butternuts for me,are cucumbers squashes ?