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Title: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: debster on April 04, 2010, 17:45:02
i would like 1 or 2 seeds of non standard green courgettes anything considered, and one or 2 outdoor cucumber seeds of any description
have loads of swaps but mostly basic though quite a few types of chilli
many thanks
debbie
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: manicscousers on April 04, 2010, 17:52:04
got some courgette de nice a fruit rond (round green) or black beauty if you'd like them, debster  :)
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: Hector on April 04, 2010, 17:53:02
I've got a small amount of a yellow one :) Think it's one ball
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: asbean on April 04, 2010, 17:54:47
Got a few Tondo di Piacenza (round green Franchi ones), pm me if you'd like them.
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: Georgie on April 04, 2010, 21:08:24
I can spare a few crystal lemon cucumbers if you'd like them.   :)

G x
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: Le-y on April 04, 2010, 21:38:51
not sure if these are what you mean but i got some courgette seeds from the dig in set and i;'m not touching them with a barge pole so they're yours with no return if you want them. just pm me if you do.,
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: Dirty Digger on April 05, 2010, 10:12:02
As far as I know, Butternut Squash seeds will actually grow as Courgettes as they start to revert back to their origin.

I'm only saying this because my parents thought they'd grow some Squash but ended up with Courgette.
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: tomatoada on April 05, 2010, 10:30:28
Quote from: Le-y on April 04, 2010, 21:38:51
not sure if these are what you mean but i got some courgette seeds from the dig in set and i;'m not touching them with a barge pole so they're yours with no return if you want them. just pm me if you do.,
[attachment=1]Can I ask why you would not use them?  My carrots and butternut squash from them last year did very well.
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: tomatoada on April 06, 2010, 09:42:52
I don't know how my question got into the quote box.
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: Digeroo on April 06, 2010, 10:11:46
QuoteButternut Squash seeds will actually grow as Courgettes
I have grown BNS seeds from supermarket fruits and they were definitely BNS.,  actually some of the best I have ever grown.  Maybe if you saved seed it got crossed with a courgette.  I would suggest a bit of hand pollination.

Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: keepondiggin on April 06, 2010, 13:03:32
Hi Debster
Not sure if you're already sorted but I have

Courgette-Black Beauty,All Green Bush,Cocozello di Napoli,El Greco,Lebanese
Cucumber-Bush Crop

Please pm me if you'd like anything
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: Dirty Digger on April 07, 2010, 20:00:49
Quote from: Digeroo on April 06, 2010, 10:11:46
QuoteButternut Squash seeds will actually grow as Courgettes
I have grown BNS seeds from supermarket fruits and they were definitely BNS.,  actually some of the best I have ever grown.  Maybe if you saved seed it got crossed with a courgette.  I would suggest a bit of hand pollination.



The seed came from a BNS I gave to my mother from the veg farm I used to work at, so no pollination was involved by myself, however, the farm does grow everything, so could easily have happened on site.
Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: galina on April 08, 2010, 10:56:11
Quote from: Dirty Digger on April 07, 2010, 20:00:49
Quote from: Digeroo on April 06, 2010, 10:11:46
QuoteButternut Squash seeds will actually grow as Courgettes
I have grown BNS seeds from supermarket fruits and they were definitely BNS.,  actually some of the best I have ever grown.  Maybe if you saved seed it got crossed with a courgette.  I would suggest a bit of hand pollination.




The seed came from a BNS I gave to my mother from the veg farm I used to work at, so no pollination was involved by myself, however, the farm does grow everything, so could easily have happened on site.
No worries on that account.  Courgettes are cucurbita pepo and butternuts are cucurbita moschata, different from each other and they don't cross.  Courgettes cross with halloween pumpkins, acorn squashes, bitter tasting decorative squashes and a whole lot more.  Butternuts cross with long snake like tromboncino squashes, the round types like Tancheese or elongated Sucrine du Berry.

Anybody can eat immature butternuts as courgettes or mature courgettes (marrows) fully grown.

Title: Re: anyone got courgette or cucumber seeds please
Post by: galina on April 08, 2010, 10:58:42
debbie

I have cucumber Dekah, if you'd like to try them.