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How are everyone's squashes doing?
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My turban pumpkins are doing a runner and are heading for some onions traveling past a marrow on the way.
Plenty of fruits have set and begun swelling.
I harvested another supermarket sized marrow too.
My camera just about survived the wet.
Near Worksop on heavy clay soil
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This is a great thread - I’m growing squash for the first time this year after succumbing to the kids nagging that they want to grow their own Halloween pumpkins. (As if I’m gonna waste compost on giant inedible pumpkins...) it’s great to see how everyone’s squash are doing.
I’ve got two types of edible, carvable pumpkins going and one lone uchkiri winter squash. All are setting fruit fine (in my inexperienced opinion...) are rambling all over the place but some of the leaves in one bed are a little pale and yellow. Used liquid tomato feed for the first time to try to help them out.
There are slug trails on them, but I don’t see any damage. I have trimmed off some of the early leaves which look a bit battered now to discourage the slugs/snails.
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Originally posted by Plot70 View PostI have got two butternuts in the same bed as the marrows and turbans. The flowers remain tightly closed.
If they don't set soon there will be no time for them to ripen.
I know from experience that were I am any winter squash which sets fruit before mid-August will definitely ripen in time, and any squash which sets before the end of August has maybe a 50:50 chance of ripening in time (one year I even had one which flowered on the 7th September which managed to grow to 5kg and ripen before the plants died).
But, I don't grow butternut and I know they take longer to mature than other winter squash, plus you're further north than me. I think end of July is still reasonable, though.Last edited by ameno; 11-07-2020, 04:08 PM.
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An update on mine.
Here are the plants taking over the plot:
https://i.imgur.com/ZSOMYkq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Ho1RMGI.jpg
And here are my developing squashes:
https://i.imgur.com/MfvrLbg.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JBCmWxg.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xBnYIo4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hv7ZmHK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bzEdjSs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/qMjukd4.jpg
That last one is actually starting to ripen already (you can see it's changing from yellow to a salmon pink).
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Originally posted by ameno View PostAn update on mine.
Here are the plants taking over the plot:
https://i.imgur.com/ZSOMYkq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Ho1RMGI.jpg
And here are my developing squashes:
https://i.imgur.com/MfvrLbg.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JBCmWxg.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xBnYIo4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hv7ZmHK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bzEdjSs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/qMjukd4.jpg
That last one is actually starting to ripen already (you can see it's changing from yellow to a salmon pink).
I cheated with an active rotting manure heater under the bed.
Near Worksop on heavy clay soil
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Originally posted by Plot70 View Post
Those are doing as well as mine all be it a lot further south than me.
I cheated with an active rotting manure heater under the bed.
Well, they were spare plants, anyway, so as long as I get at least one decent sized fruit each from them I'll be happy.
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My raised bed is quite substantial. There are small air gaps in the clay walls so that allow the heat to escape. The clay blocks were full of couch grass roots and in there heat shield roll have shaded the compost from drying winds and solar heating unlike a formal compost bin.
The couch grass roots took the full solar heat and very few have sprouted again.
Now that I have got more leaf cover the compost is retaining the moisture better.
Once the manure layer is gone there is the pickled couch grass roots below.
The leaves are nice and green and there are plenty of fruits.
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My squashes are only just starting to form buds. I'm feeling a little behind, again.Nestled somewhere in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Good soil, strong winds and 4 Giant Puffballs!
Always aim for the best result possible not the best possible result
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