I've just freecycled my courgettes !

[Two_Sheds]

I just can't bring myself to put them on the compost ... they've been so giving, so voluptuous ... I just can't waste them

[Pies]

good idea,my neighbours get worried when i visit now

[pdblake]

PMSL

Had any takers yet?

[zazen999]

LOL - I cooked down 10 of the buggers the other day and froze them for pasta sauces during the winter. I can't chuck em either

[russell]

cougette and cheese bread yesterday as well as courgette in the spag bol.
Courgette lasagne (used instead of pasta sheets) today
Still got half a huge one left until i go back down the lotty tomorrow!

[Incy]

Courgette chutneys and curries mainly here. More to harvest and no We can't bin them either it would just be wrong!

[Hans Mum]

am i the only one who has had a rubbish year for courgettes? last year i was burried under a mound of them, this year I dont think ive had more than a dozen from 4 plants

[SlugLobber]

Good grief, the mere mention of putting any of my home-grown veg on the compost bring me out in a sweat. You can NEVER have too many curries! Or courgette cake, or chilli/courgette/tomato sauces...

[Incy]

And curries freeeze beautifully too so you can keep eating them all winter!

[salilah]

am i the only one who has had a rubbish year for courgettes? last year i was burried under a mound of them, this year I dont think ive had more than a dozen from 4 plants

Nope, me too - a few early in the year, then almost nothing - they keep producing male flowers but only a few fruit which tend to rot before they've grown enough... Very disappointing as the last 2 years worked so well! But I haven't watered them as much this year, so that might be an issue...

S

[kentvegplot]

Nope, me too - a few early in the year, then almost nothing - they keep producing male flowers but only a few fruit which tend to rot before they've grown enough... Very disappointing as the last 2 years worked so well! But I haven't watered them as much this year, so that might be an issue...

S

Me too - I put it down to the very dry season we have had. By default I don't water those beds, as they 'should' be able to take care of themselves.
Still, made some lovely courgette soup for the freezer.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Me too - I put it down to the very dry season we have had. By default I don't water those beds, as they 'should' be able to take care of themselves.
Still, made some lovely courgette soup for the freezer.

Me three (or is that four), we've had about two courgettes off each of our four plants - that's pathetic!! They've had a healthy dose of chicken manure pellets, the ones at the lottie weren't watered, but the ones at home were, but it hasn't made the slightest bit of difference. Grrrr!! I dream of a courgette glut!!

However, that's inspired of you TS, did you make it a rhyming advert, and will you only give them up to poetic responses al la Ollie?

[Two_Sheds]

And curries freeeze beautifully too so you can keep eating them all winter!

I know.
But both freezers are full of sweetcorn, broad beans, shelly beans, berries and there's even a bag of sprouts in there somewhere too

[SueA]

That's a great idea Two Sheds, better than letting them go to waste. It did make me think of Joe Swift on Gardeners' World the other week when he was going round the allotments offering to swap his courgettes for other peoples produce, they all accepted them but I think it was a bit reluctantly & only because they were on TV.

[Rocketron]

am i the only one who has had a rubbish year for courgettes? last year i was burried under a mound of them, this year I dont think ive had more than a dozen from 4 plants

I'm the same but my one marrow plant has given us 20 marrows.