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Title: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: ceres on August 21, 2009, 23:07:39

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 :(

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: debster on August 22, 2009, 00:21:10

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

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: Pesky Wabbit on August 22, 2009, 02:12:35

The onset of Alzheimer's ???

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: allaboutliverpool on August 22, 2009, 08:47:22

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.

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Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: tricia on August 22, 2009, 13:38:32

.....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

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: electric landlady on August 22, 2009, 20:52:38

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.

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: Barnowl on August 24, 2009, 17:17:49

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

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: Tin Shed on August 24, 2009, 20:56:54

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

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: Ishard on August 25, 2009, 16:18:44

Some cabbages plants I bought have morphed into swede!

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: macmac on August 26, 2009, 10:07:48

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 :)

Title: Re: Not what it said on the tin
Post by: 1066 on August 26, 2009, 10:50:23

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

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