Sowing all things Cucurbit - 2020

[veggiechicken]

Cucurbits - members of the Gourd family - includes cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, courgettes, melons and more that I can't remember!!

How many are you sowing & growing in 2020?

Please share your progress.

2019 thread at https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...9-a_98727.html

[Thelma Sanders]

Seeds in the box...
Sweetmax Butternut, Thelma Sanders, High Sugar Mix (Acorn squashes), Uchiki Kuri and Blue Kuri, Autumn Crown and Flat White Boer - Oh! can't find my Queensland Blue seeds so may have to buy some more as they did well for me last year!
Never sure if it more a squash or a courgette but Tromba d'Albenga of course
Courgette Golden Griller, Partenon and Green Bush.
Cucumbers La Diva, Socrates and Beth Alpha.

[mrbadexample]

How many are you sowing & growing in 2019?

Well, that was last year but I grew those Beth Alpha cucumbers you recommended and I did quite nicely out of them thank you. I got enough to make the cucumber pickle I wanted, plus extras. Which was great until Viki discovered she really likes my cucumber pickle.

[veggiechicken]

Top marks MBE for spotting my deliberate error.
Beth Alpha are great and you'll have to grow lots more this year.

[Small pumpkin]

Just the 4 this year.

Courgette Tromboncino d'albenga
Pumpkin small sugar
squash scallop mix
cucumber Beth alpha

[ameno]

Quite a few this year:

Courgette - Defender
Cucumber - La Diva
Winter Squash - Marina di Chioggia, Galeux D'Eysines, Jumbo Pink Banana and whatever seeds I bring back from Japan
Melon - Collective Farm Woman
Water melon - a small-fruited, yellow-fleshed variety the name of which I forget

[quanglewangle]

Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?

[quanglewangle]

Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?

[OakR]

Cucumber - La Diva, Burpless - grew last year and worked well
Courgette - Soleil - I like yellow ones! First time with this one.
Squash - Trying for the first time: Uchiki Kuri, Brown Prince. Doing again, Scallop Mixed, and Turks Turban and Tombocino if I have room.
Pumpkin - Jack O Lantern
Melon - If have some seeds, might try some

Going to to more squash and less courgettes this year - just one courgette plant is enough for us, maybe one extra in case the first one fails.

[ameno]

Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?

Only planned (and I already have the seeds). Far too early to sow even cucumbers and melons, much less the others.

[Small pumpkin]

Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?

I’m also just at the planning stage ( story of my bl**dy life ) and already have seeds. Won’t be starting till March/ April.

[Mamzie]

Cucumber - Crystal Apple - love this one
Cucumber baby - Beth Aplha - first time growing, (sown early all VCs fault if I go wrong)
Cucumber baby - Socrates f1
Cucumber - La Diva f1 - a firm favourite
Cucumber - Telephathy f1, back up for La Diva in case of failure

First time trying to grow...
Aubergine - early long purple
Courgette - zuchhini
Pumpkin - Jack o'lantern
Squash - butternut
Squash - Patty Pan

Undecided
Melons - finally cropped 3 single melons last year after trying for 3 years, maybe space be better for other stuff - have lots of seed left

Have seeds for Cucamelon and Cuc White Wonder, but both were very bitter in 2018, wondering if that was my fault for growing too close together in GH?

[muckdiva]

I will beetle off to make my list, but meantime...has anyone grown Carosello cucumbers. I noticed there were some seeds in the curcubit vsp but not sure if that’s happening this year? At any rate, I’d be interested in any advice on whether is worth shelling out to buy seed for them. (Think they are called Carosello Mezzo Lungo Barese, or similar)

[Thelma Sanders]

IMO they need a warmer climate than we can give them, the vsp ones didn't do well for me, even in the greenhouse.
Though they may grow better in a large polytunnel where the conditions are more stable, than in a small greenhouse like mine.

[muckdiva]

Thanks Thelma, good to know