How are everyones squashes doing

[lottiedolly]

Yaay, i finally have a little 2" diameter pattypan on a plant. I have 1 butternut squash fruited bigger than a tennis ball and my 2 uchi kuri plants seem to be fruiting away Merrily. My crookneck squash is laden.

my queensland blue is romping away and is all flower, my other 2 butternuts are all flower, my winter bush squash, winter festival, delicata and 4 other squashes that my mind has gone blank on are all flower no fruit, I hopes that they would have started by now, they are watered and fed, oh well, i suppose patience is a virtue and i have never been a particularly virtuous woman 

How are you guys getting on?

I think that the drought that we have had in the south east has really affected my clay soil, i am fighting it to stop it from hardening around my plants

Kxx 

[manicscousers]

Hiya, lottiedolly, exciting, isn't it 
our uchi kuri and potimarron have huge fruits on, hooligan, one large and a couple of small ones, the hunter butternut are fruiting now, must say, I'm giving them a pollination boost if I see a flower open, next year, I have oodles of new ones to try, courtesy of Jeannine, I can't wait to try them 

[lottiedolly]

Oh dont start me off on next year, i am blaming Jeannine and Chris for my latest squash obsession   My husband is scratching his head on where he can grow his normal crops as i have taken over with my squashes, I have suggested that he builds a frame over one of the paths on our plot and then they can climb up and over a bit like a bangladeshi frame. I am still waiting for him to start talking to me again!!!!  

[Jeannine]

Oh good, you can save me some squash stories for my squash book that is half done, it needs a bit of light relief XX Jeannine

[Wilder]

I'm a bit disappointed my courgettes are giving small fruits, but not very many. The most successful is grisette de provence. The yellow ones are TINY!

I have a delicata where there is one 3inch fruit and only a few flowers. The crown prince and hooligan are only flowering now. I water regularly so maybe I'm not feeding enough??

[Nikita]

My courgettes on my allotment are not doing too well but i have a couple in pots in the back garden, massive plants and covered in fruit.

[antipodes]

The yellow Parador courgettes are really amazing, I have already had at least a dozen fruit from each plant! Much better than the green ones!
Also getting green paty pan squash.
The pumpkins: the Trident have a few fruit, and the butternuts have at least 4 on each plant and are in full flower! I can see at least 2 Hooligans and they are starting to branch out  now too!  The Qld Blue has nothing for now but it is just starting to flower....
Lots of wonderful squash in view this year!

[GrannieAnnie]

Lots of squash covering everything even an arbor that was for clematis.
Found some worms burrowing on underside of delicata when I picked them yesterday
Butternuts seem to be immune to that fortunately.

[lottie lou]

Is it all right to just use home made comfrey and/or seaweed fertilizer and if so how often

[manicscousers]

Is it all right to just use home made comfrey and/or seaweed fertilizer and if so how often

Ray uses ours once a week 

[tricia]

I have five huge green hubbard on one plant, 1 jarrahdale and one crown prince all growing on a trellis and two winter butternuts (more to come) and six or seven black futsu on frames.

Looks like I'll be eating squash in one form or another every day this coming winter!

Tricia

[Allotment-junkie]

I tried the 3 sisters this year BUT after only putting in the Sweetcorn and the jack O Lantern im not bothering with the 3rd sister as the Pumpkins are being Bullies and have gone wild at least 25 fruits on ech plant and I put 7 in , only hope the sweetcorn can grow through them .

[kypfer]

My courgettes are being especially prolific this year, I'm picking 2-3 1lb fruit from each plant each week ... running out of people to give them away to 

I'm trying "Vegetable Spaghetti" for the first time, the gourds are egg-shaped, about a foot or so long. Not sure how to tell when they're ripe, think I'll wait 'till the plant starts to die back in the autumn then take the fruit into store ... should be fun 

[GrannieAnnie]

Can hardly open the gate with a butternut hanging right at the door and engulphing the arbor.

[kippers garden]

Is it all right to just use home made comfrey and/or seaweed fertilizer and if so how often

I use comfrey tea once a week on my squashes

[gwynnethmary]

butternuts are putting growth on, but as yet have no flowers- too far North I guess!

[sawfish]

a couple of wee flowers on my Crown Prince. Quite a bit behind last year though.

[bison1947]

Well ive tried Butternut  squash 3 years on the run & only
had 1 fruit in 3 years.
I tried them in the greenhouse this year but getting
the same results , fruits start to set and grow then they
just shrivle up & die any ideas?

Bison.............

[GrannieAnnie]

Well ive tried Butternut  squash 3 years on the run & only
had 1 fruit in 3 years.
I tried them in the greenhouse this year but getting
the same results , fruits start to set and grow then they
just shrivle up & die any ideas?

Bison.............

That's frustrating! 
Could it be they didn't get pollinated by insects? Or is was raining too hard when they needed pollination.
I've had to hand pollinate things in greenhouse sometimes like eggplants or the flowers die.

[PurpleHeather]

Well I am over run with courgettes/marrows.

Have planted butternuts, indoors and out. They all look to me
l 7 years of age













 but from last years results, they harvest, very late. Patience here


Finding plants that would suit a small, raised area.

Iis going to be dependant on the new plot holder