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I've planted them all out today, it doesn't seem very many.
I have 2 - there's only so many courgettes a man can eat ;D
Only 4 plants for us and we love ratatooi! ;D Cheers, Tony.
just wondered. . .
Are you supplying the city of Birmingham?? ;D ;D
I've got 1 grown out of 3 seeds planted so may be adventurous and plant 2 more seeds!!
Debs
24 :o..I'm doing 4 and its only me who is eating them in our house.. ::)
I've put in 6 but there's a spare asking to be planted ;)
I make courgette soup with roasted garlic so need plenty for that ,but my neighbours (a lovely family) get a steady supply from us when they start cropping.
We have got 4 courgette plants
5 pumpkin plants and...
35 squash plants......
** courgette free zone **
I think so.....
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I grow two plants but I grow ones that auto set fruit regardless of pollination (Parthenon)
24!!! ???
The slugs might dine on one or two,plants - and as a careful gardener you had that eventuality covered!?! .... naturally ....... ;D
As a certain well known tennis player used to say...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_KIzbktgJk
I grow 1 Parthenon, 1 Cavili, 1 Climbing Black Forest and 1 Rugosa Friulana. The harvest from those 4 plants feed me, my neighbours and my friends till we are sick of them, but 24! Betty, I think you may have planted a very big problem there! ;D ::).
Tricia
You can always give any surplus away, and make new friends. A think the slugs have got mine, so may not have many this year. :( :(
:o Wow i put 12 plants in one year....... NEVER again just didnot know what to do with them all and nobody wanted them as they were all growing there own,
Only got one plant this year ;)
When I saw you today I thought you were planting out your squash because there were so many. Thought I was going some putting 6 out. Don't think I'm gonna bother now. I will just have yours. ;D
NUTTER! :o ::)
Oh blimey - we are having a torrential downpour now, I bet they have all been washed away.
I was thinking how restrained I'd been this year, I usually plant over 30.
Squash what do you do with all the courgettes? Or is that a silly question!
Quote from: Squash64 on May 30, 2012, 17:19:04
Oh blimey - we are having a torrential downpour now, I bet they have all been washed away.
I was thinking how restrained I'd been this year, I usually plant over 30.
Would like a bit of rain here pls
Quote from: Flighty on May 30, 2012, 17:27:34
Squash what do you do with all the courgettes? Or is that a silly question!
I bet she just picks all the flowers into vase.. ;) ;D Well..they are quite showy and does 'smell' nice too.. ;D
Only 2 here, and I use the excess in mustard pickle ;D
We had torrents here in Birmingham a couple of hours ago. I just hope the site wasn't flooded!
I have 3 plants as per usual, and the neighbours shut their doors when they see me arriving with armloads of courgettes! ;D
Romanesco and Tondo, 2 of each to go in at the plot. Stuff 'em with rice, mince, cheese, add them to curries, soups, stews, or anything then forget about them until next year ;D
I've tried pickling, chutneying, freezing, using in cakes and it just doesn't bite the biscuit in our household now somehow. :(
Ninny
Maybe this should be in the recipe section but variations on courgette gluts are always handy. I like a sicilian dish that cooks courgette chunks in some olive oil then adding a bit of brown sugar, wine vinegar and cinnamon to the pan. It's also handy grated into rissotos and my daughter in Spain grates it into scrambled eggs. I can recommend that. Herbs are always good with them, tarragon especially.
Quote from: Flighty on May 30, 2012, 17:27:34
Squash what do you do with all the courgettes? Or is that a silly question!
We do love courgettes! I use them in various ways, one way is to cut them into small chunks and fry in butter together with onion and garlic. They are lovely with pasta too. I also pack them into little containers and freeze them (cooked) I give them away too, and get the same reaction as Doris Pinks. ;)
I'm growing White Volunteer, Rugosa and Defender this year. At least, I hope I am - the rain here in Birmingham yesterday was so heavy it might have flattened them all. :'(
Just got back from the early shift at the lottie and everything has survived the downpour we had yesterday.
Oh, and I made a mistake about how many courgettes - it's 26, not 24! :o
That's just mad, Betty! I have put in 4 courgettes - a black beauty bog-standard courgette, a Striata d'iTalia which was so nice last year, a yellow variety and a mini-squash, which I like, those patty pan ones. And I probably will have too many!!
We have 9 cougette, 10 butternut squash, 8 sunburst squash (seeds were a freebie) and 6 pumpkin ;D
I think it might just be enough, now you've had a recount ;D
Wow, I thought I'd over done it with 4, Leprechaun (round type), White volunteer, Zepher F1 and Rugosa Friulana. Oh and a Cousa type x.
Quote from: Borlotti on May 30, 2012, 15:37:40
You can always give any surplus away, and make new friends. A think the slugs have got mine, so may not have many this year. :( :(
Or loose old ones ;) ;) ;)
This morning a plot neighbour asked me what courgettes I'm growing this year and I replied none.
Later on he came back and gave me a Nero di Milano plant, so now I'm growing one which will be plenty!
I've planted two out, a green and a yellow. My mouth is watering already! :P
I usually do 4 plants at the lottie and a couple in pots at home which I pick at a really small size and keep on top of. This year it is pumpkins I've gone a bit mad on: I have a new bit of plot to sort so will cover it and plant the pumpkins through a mulch this year.
Quote from: Deb P on June 01, 2012, 00:12:54
I usually do 4 plants at the lottie and a couple in pots at home which I pick at a really small size and keep on top of. This year it is pumpkins I've gone a bit mad on: I have a new bit of plot to sort so will cover it and plant the pumpkins through a mulch this year.
That's what we have kind of done to. Dandytown from here gave us some giant pumpkin seeds amongst others and they are going great guns
Hope you like courgette soup, chutney, fried, baked, boiled, garnished, grated, stir-fried... Oh and you can make piccalilli with them also.. ;D
Quote from: gavinjconway on June 01, 2012, 09:19:29
Hope you like courgette soup, chutney, fried, baked, boiled, garnished, grated, stir-fried... Oh and you can make piccalilli with them also.. ;D
And marrow curd!!!
I'm back to growing none as I arrived at the plot this morning to find that the one I was given, and planted, yesterday has been eaten by slugs! :(
Quote from: Flighty on June 01, 2012, 12:41:06
I'm back to growing none as I arrived at the plot this morning to find that the one I was given, and planted, yesterday has been eaten by slugs! :(
Oh man, I hate that. :o My lovely lady and I practice 'Snailwatch' at sundown every evening, torch in one hand and a trowel in the other. It's the best time to catch the little buggers, and their sluggy cousins! Whatever we catch end up taking flying lessons, way out onto the nearby road. ;D It works fantastic for us, but I know it's so much more difficult to do when you're not close to your allotment.
MIne are still in the growhouse!
I shall probably plant them out next week. We had all the taps knicked down the lottie - so no water!!!!!! >:( they should be replaced soon so I can water again! It's delayed me planting lots of things - i'd sooner keep them at home and be able to water them. No rain here for ages!!!!!! BUT it is raining this morning - not much - but it'll help!
"Whatever we catch end up taking flying lessons, way out onto the nearby road."
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Erm, I read once they return to their home area ;D It may be an urban myth but.......
Quote from: Toshofthe Wuffingas on June 02, 2012, 13:05:12
"Whatever we catch end up taking flying lessons, way out onto the nearby road."
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Erm, I read once they return to their home area ;D It may be an urban myth but.......
Homing snails? ;) :o
I hear the racing of homing snails will soon be on Sky Sports.
Hope this link works....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10856523
Very interesting. I'm on a hill, above my neighbour's garden. I often have to knock 'returning' snails off our dividing wall, easily 9 ft high. It certainly makes me wonder if they are actually the ones I sent flying the previous night. :o
They proably are as they do return to the same spot. When I was about four I was always chucking them over the wall, and couldn't understand why there were always just as many as the previous day! You need to murder them.
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on June 03, 2012, 17:24:19
They proably are as they do return to the same spot. When I was about four I was always chucking them over the wall, and couldn't understand why there were always just as many as the previous day! You need to murder them.
Not much of a bowling arm then Robert ;D. You need to launch them far and wide and they will find something more interesting before they bother to come back.
Ninny
Quote from: Ninnyscrops. on June 05, 2012, 23:45:09
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on June 03, 2012, 17:24:19
They proably are as they do return to the same spot. When I was about four I was always chucking them over the wall, and couldn't understand why there were always just as many as the previous day! You need to murder them.
Not much of a bowling arm then Robert ;D. You need to launch them far and wide and they will find something more interesting before they bother to come back.
He needs make a little hand sling like kids used to play with and that should send the bleeders flying far.. ;D
Now other night I picked half a bucketfull of snails for my chickens and as it was too much for them to eat in one go..I put lid on to save them for next couple of meals...only to discover day later that most of them managed to escape.. :-X The lid was bit too loose.. ::) And the hunt is back on... ::)