Hello all, please be gentle with me cos I've been very stupid....for the first time ever I've grown courgettes and butternut squash. Only when I was transplanting them I just put them in my garden borders anywhere there was room. Yep, just chucked 'em in. You more experienced peeps are probably laughing as you can see where this is going....
Basically they all look the same!! :o I appear to have what looks like courgettes on every plant, though one was slightly more bulbous than the others. So, have aliens stolen my butternuts or do they all start off dark green and courgette like?
Help! ???
You'll just have to wait and see :) That's the fun of this growing thing we all love. I have a couple of butternuts (well I think I do). I have labelled one of them but no fruit on it yet. EJ will know for sure and she'll probably tell you. I thought I'd got a Marina di Chioggia squash but it turns out just to be a bog standard courgette. Tasty though :) Must improve on my labelling ;D
What variety are these? I have no idea but they taste fab ;D
I've only grown butternut a couple of times, and yes, they do look like courgettes when they start so don't worry - but if they are like mine they will take off and grow like crazy - very vigorous, trailing triffids, outstrip courgettes by miles and will probably smother your borders! You have been warned ;D ;D ;D
I have found (and I am NO expert) that most of the squashes seem to start green, with the exception of the bright yellow courgettes and some varieties of pumpkin and pattypans. I thought I had butternuts, and still might somewhere in my squash jungle, but haven't spotted any yet! :-\ Labelling, well what's that?
LOL! Thanks everyone, at least I don't feel so daft now! We are doing very well eating courgettes, and I think I've identified one butternut plant..... either that or I'm going to have fatty courgettes! :o
The difference I have noticed is that the leaves of my butternut are quite round and all my courgettes leaves are more raggedy. Although don't take this as gospel, I have planted a rogue courgette amongst my squash it seems ops ;)
Lots of us seem to have mixed our squashes with our courgettes and labels in the process ;D Oh well, all good eating. I have labelled most of mine but they get pulled out by birds or just obscured in all that foliage :)