Topic: Not what it said on the tin

[ceres]

I've got 2 imposters growing.

I sowed and planted out what should have been a Black Beauty Courgette.  Well, they are definitely not black!  They are a mottled yellow/green and trumpet-shaped and grow very big very quickly.

The one I'm more cross about is the butternut squash which isn't remotely butternut-squash-ish.  They are currently bright yellow, round and football-sized.  The variety should have been Winter F1.

Both were Wilkinsons seeds so I suppose you get what you pay for.  I'll take some pics next week and post to see if anyone can identify them.  I'll also let Wilko's know.  When I got weeds instead of horseradish, their customer service was very good and they were generous with vouchers, so fingers crossed.  I'd still rather have had the butternuts though  :(

[debster]

that is so annoying isnt it
i have a conondrum i planted white spuds but red ones grew whats that all about

[Pesky Wabbit]

The onset of Alzheimer's ???

[allaboutliverpool]

Curcubits (Marrows, squashes, pumpkins etc) are notoriously promiscuous, and this year I have a Black Beauty that is producing courgettes at a rate that I have never seen before. The fruit are striped and I suspect the influence of a marrow, (the seeds came from T&M).

One of my butternut squash plants has very dark green stripy fruit of the correct shape.

Quite exciting really.

http://allaboutallotments.com/index.html

[tricia]

.....and one of my Harzfeuer plants (seeds from Lidl) has huge beefsteak tomatoes on it whereas the other Harzfeuer plants are the normal size I am used to - not that I'm grumbling, the beefsteaks have a wonderful flavour. I shall save some of the seeds and see what comes up next year.

All my tomato plants are now almost leafless due to blight, but the fruits are still slowly ripening on the stems.

Tricia

[electric landlady]

I know the feeling - my 12 PSB plants which I bought from a plant stall are all going great guns...producing lots of very unpurple late summer calabrese.

Still yummy though!  :) but I will miss the purple stuff next March.

[Barnowl]

I have a Japanese Black Trifele tomato that looks suspiciously like a Nectar cherry tomato. Unfortunately I've only myself to blame  :-[

[Tin Shed]

I have Cherokee Purple tomatoes that definitely are red all the way through ;D

[Ishard]

Some cabbages plants I bought have morphed into swede!

[macmac]

Isn't life exciting  :D
I've got friends who yawn when I tell them we've got an allotment,they don't know what there miising :o
I've also got "black" courgettes that are striped pale green instead of the usual dark green :)

[1066]

my black courgettes failed to germinate - humph!  :-X