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one of my courgette plants is definately not a courgette   :(  the leaves are the same but slightly lighter in colour, and it is very fast growing, BUT the fruit is round and green, at the moment the size of two fists and still growing.   has anyone any idea's. hope you can understand this ,it is my first entry as i have only just registered.

Hiya happygnan, welcome to A4A

I'm new and only found out yesterday, that if you send Dan the Admin man £10 (by paypal is easiest), he will set you up so that you can post photos, that makes it alot easier with species ID etc. (and allows the more nosey of us to see other people, their animals and their allotments)

Happy Courgette Growing! :D

So what's wrong with round courgettes??
But use them by tennis ball size - or, perhaps, grapefruit??

I stopped growing round courgettes (tondo ...) because I ended up with so much fruit it was impossible to eat it all ...  :D

Quote from: happygnan on July 07, 2006, 11:20:13
one of my courgette plants is definately not a courgette   :(  the leaves are the same but slightly lighter in colour, and it is very fast growing, BUT the fruit is round and green, at the moment the size of two fists and still growing.   has anyone any idea's. hope you can understand this ,it is my first entry as i have only just registered.

Sounds like the courgette ronde to me too.  I would take one off and cut it open. As Prink says, a photo would be helpful.

Agggh that reminds me, I have one to pick and didn't!  Forgot and I can't get up there today as I am without a car!!  Must not forget tomorrow!!

We were at our plot yesterday and are going to have another glut this year, if things continue as they are doing.  I have somehow ended up with 11 courgette plants: some little round globes ones haven't tried before and got given, which are already fruiting away, some green bush and zucchini ones. It seemed never ending last year and we only had six plants, can't understand myself growing even more this year,  thought some might not survive, but they have! Ah well!! It will be courgettes with everything again.  ;D busy_lizzie

many thanks to you all for answering me, i now have a red face, never knew there were round courgettes, will sort out about dan, paypal, and the photo's, Tim the photo was just what i needed, hope the round ones make soup as well as the long ones, think i may be inundated.

FWIW, I will not grow them again.

sorry tim, please explain fwiw, i may get the hang of these boards one day. :-[

So sorry - I NEVER use these cryptic thingies - just fell for it tonight.

"For what it's worth!"

And BTW, what's a gnan??

gnan=great grandmother

Of COURSE!!

 ;D

'Scuse me...I HAVE A COURGETTE!!!

Ahem, that's it. Very excited, never grown them before. Will get me coat...

;)

Congrats Katy! I hope you are saying that by the end of summer when you have run out of things to do with them. ;D busy_lizzie

How did it taste katy? :P ::)

I've got FOUR!  ;D

Not meaning to brag, and I know I'm going to eat my words by the end of the seaon (not to mention eat more courgettes than I ever wanted to  ;) ), but this is all still quite new to me, you know.  :)

 ;D

Sprout...pan fried (what else would you fry in ??? hate these cheffy terms) with a little butter and some garlic!

Delish! :P

I've only planted two plants this year because the family got so sick of them last year & we've still got some marrow in the freezer!
Katy, if it's the first time you've grown them, make sure you check regularly- they grow VERY quickly once they get started!

Ok i must confess I have FOUR courgette plants and my first MALE flowered today.

All four plants have lots of flowers coming up... when do i feed them?

I have liquid chicken poo and weed tea ready - will that be ok?