Author Topic: Doing a sweep on squash varieties being grown (Read 20895 times)

froglets · « **Reply #60 on:** April 18, 2007, 12:39:22 »

Just Butternut Hunter. My first ever attempt - I'd never even have got this far without all the encouragement from A4A

hearsalcommon · « **Reply #61 on:** April 19, 2007, 17:49:31 »

SUMMER: ZUCCHINI, DEFENDER F1, GOLDRUSH F1

WINTER: BUTTERNUT - WALTHAM, LITTLE GEM, CROWN PRINCE

PUMPKINS: ATLANTIC GIANT, JACK O'LANTERN, GHOSTRIDER

I'm going Native American this year Sweetcorn with climbing dwarf beans and mangetout up stems and squash across the ground. Pumpkins at top of slop around all the rasberry stems.

Happy Halloween!

SueSteve · « **Reply #62 on:** April 19, 2007, 18:23:32 »

Courgettes
Black Beauty
De Nice a rond
Gold Rush
Patty Pan (lime green one)
Lebanese
Yellow scallop
Green bush
Custard marrow

Squash
Turks cap
Jumbo Pink Banana
Butternut (from organic squash)

Jeannine · « **Reply #63 on:** April 20, 2007, 21:51:40 »

Wow, what a super response, I take back my comment that almost everyone just grow courgettes and Butternuts.Fabulous selection here. I am going to print this off and figure out the top ten. XX Jeannine

legless · « **Reply #64 on:** April 21, 2007, 08:29:27 »

uchiki kuri (this is the third year i've grown it, its great)
sweet dumpling

courgette - eight ball.

Grandma · « **Reply #65 on:** April 21, 2007, 08:53:48 »

Quote from: Jeannine on April 20, 2007, 21:51:40

Wow, what a super response, I take back my comment that almost everyone just grow courgettes and Butternuts.Fabulous selection here. I am going to print this off and figure out the top ten. XX Jeannine

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Just a couple of courgettes - (all green bush, I think) - and my first-ever squash. (Butternut - bought just the one little plant!) I only have a microscopic veg patch! :) Oh and Petita cucumbers in the greenhouse.

Andy H · « **Reply #66 on:** April 21, 2007, 10:01:34 »

Planted out yesterday near Gatwick my Atlantic Giant
Not a giant yet though

grawrc · « **Reply #67 on:** April 21, 2007, 15:43:20 »

courgette: Genovese
Winter squash/ pumpkin: Potimarron and Marina di chioggia

Tin Shed · « **Reply #68 on:** April 21, 2007, 17:23:29 »

Add another two to my list
Yellow patty pan - sunburst
Pumpkin - SC4-15 F1 Hybrid- has yet to have a name. Got it from Thompson and Morgan, seed originates in Japan.

Planning to try the Three sisters system - which are the best type of squash to use?

Jeannine · « **Reply #69 on:** April 21, 2007, 19:28:28 »

It doesn't really matter which one you use as long as it is a winter squash and not a bush type.I also wouldn't use any of the Acorns as many of them are semi bush.
I would probably choose something with a fruit that weighs about 3-5 pounds. That way it is not so small as to get lost in the corn,and big enough to grow between you corn spacing without being squashed.

Please take pictures. I have never done the full 3 sisters thing,only the corn and squash part. I did intend to do so this year with the original varieties but somehow I didn't get the original squash from the Us in time.

XX Jeannine

mc55 · « **Reply #70 on:** April 21, 2007, 20:06:53 »

not much space left so:

pumpkins / sqash:

Atlantic Dill's Giant
Jack be Little
Baby Bear
Sunshine
Butternut
Winter Festival
Turks Turbans (home saved seed, goodness knows what I'll get)

Courgettes:

Tri-coloured balls ... had to plant all 8 to try and establish which are which ::) definitely not keeping them all though.

Would have loved to have grown Queenland Blue, have heard very good things about it, oh well, there's always next season ;D ;D

dandelion · « **Reply #71 on:** April 21, 2007, 20:27:24 »

Quote from: Jeannine on April 21, 2007, 19:28:28

I have never done the full 3 sisters thing,only the corn and squash part. I did intend to do so this year with the original varieties but somehow I didn't get the original squash from the Us in time.

Which squash is that Jeannine?

glow777 · « **Reply #72 on:** April 21, 2007, 20:29:20 »

Quote from: mc55 on April 21, 2007, 20:06:53

Would have loved to have grown Queenland Blue, have heard very good things about it, oh well, there's always next season ;D ;D

came across a photo of one left behind on an old camera card.

for those of you yet to grow them this is a smallish child 12 with a small QB

taste amazing

redimp · « **Reply #73 on:** April 21, 2007, 20:32:19 »

Summer:
Black Beauty Courgette
All Green Bush Courgette
Sebring Courgette
Pattinson Patty Pan
Snakes (to eat as courgettes)

Winter:
Butternut (variety a mystery)
Anna Schwartz Hubbard
Burgess Buttercup
Jack o' Lantern Pumpkin
Snake Gourd (to get one as long as possible)
SS Special Roadside Pumpkin :)

Also:
Marketmore Cucumbers.

barkingdog · « **Reply #74 on:** April 22, 2007, 07:42:45 »

Courgette - Defender & Tricolour

Pumpkin - Jack be little

Squash - Sunshine, Table King (SuperSprout Seed), Rolet Gem, Honey Boat Delicata, Cobnut (more SS seed) and Red Kuri (my favourite!)

barkingdog

Raisedbed · « **Reply #75 on:** April 22, 2007, 19:30:52 »

Just a mere strapling compared with some of you but I am growing:

Summer squash: Orelia and some round ones which have 3 different colours in the packet
Winter: Cobnut - growing for the first time. Hoping to grow 2 plants up a rose arch. I've seen it growing up loads of people's wire fences in Greece so thought I would give it a go.

Thanks for your knowledge on squashes Jeannine. You can't help but want to grow all those amazing varieties just for fun.

Jeannine · « **Reply #76 on:** April 22, 2007, 19:55:21 »

You hit it right on the head...fun...it is a fun veggie and fascinating,I know of no other veggie that has so many differences. I just have got to have em all..........XX Jeannine

redimp · « **Reply #77 on:** April 22, 2007, 20:17:47 »

Ooops - forgot

Winter:
Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash

calamityjayneuk · « **Reply #78 on:** April 22, 2007, 22:23:28 »

after growing far too many courgettes last year (defender) I am planning to grow just one or two of a few things this year.

I have courgette katia which I sowed this weekend in pots in the gh. Butternut squash, pumpkin Halloween (sowed a couple of weeks ago but yet to show) I plan to try growing in between some sweetcorn.

I enjoyed a squash from asda so much I saved some seeds from it, variety marked was dumpling - I some six and they popped up straight away! If anyone has any tips on growing this variety I would be grateful as I am just winging it.

What's three sisters? Is that where you grow beans, sweetcorn and squash together?

Jeannine · « **Reply #79 on:** April 22, 2007, 23:07:53 »

Just treat your dumpling as you do your courgettes until planting out time,Your corgettes will remain a bush, your dumpling will grow a very long vine,and it will weave through corn,there is only one problem there is a variety of dumpling that is a compact bush and is the seeds are store saved you won't know. I would plant it in a place where you can let it vine if it wants to, but if if remains a bush it won't matter.

Three sisters is the hill method of growing corn,squash and beans together, you are right. 24 inch diameter mound about a foot high, 6 corn seeds in the middle about 8 inches apart, followed by 6 beans seeds further out and 6 squash seeds at the outside, like a bicycle wheel.Should be sowed at weeklt intervals.The beans go up the corn stalks and the squash weave around the bottom. The theory is the corn acts as support for the beans, who give nitrogen and the squash cover the ground and smother weeds.

Good Luck. XX Jeannine

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