How do I get a courgette glut?

[taff]

I've got four and I thought I was going overbaord with them!!! 28!! that's an awful lot of chocolate muffins

[kingkano]

I'll throw my hat in the ring... 28? geez? at 1 plant per person I often hear recommended you must have a large extended family! lol

[chris]

Just had our first courgette - my wife made carrot, spring onion, cheese and courgette muffins - really tastey savoury snack

Have a few more growing, so fingers crossed.

[Speed Gardener]

Pick 'em small and regularly, that's the secret. I throw them on the heap when they're the size that you buy in the shops. Mind you, by the end of it there's nobody I know who isn't sick of courgettes!
I just like growing lots of different types and with 3 plots, I can do. After all, they only produce for two to three months, and we'll have enough courgette cakes in the freezer to last until next year!

[Bramble_killer]

*sob*

please stop telling me courgette glut stories.

I picked another 1 today.

And there's only one more growing on the five plants

*exits stage left dramatically*

[Alison]

Picked three off the one in the polytunnel today and another one from outside. Plenty more on the go too . All the rain this week seems to have really swelled them.

[zazen999]

We've got 10 plants, I thought it was less but apparently not; so I pulled one saucery one up today as we've got ample with the others....and the yellow one isn't big enough to produce yet.

We are picking 8-10 every 2 days.

[womble]

I've got 7 plants, although I've just pulled one up as it annoyed me

Three days crop made into a huge pot of soup today, 24 courgettes....... hang on, that's not even 3 days crop as we ate some fresh the previous 2 days..........
I am starting to groan a little every day when I walk into the garden and see another courgette ready to be picked, when I swear it was only an inch yesterday.

I haven't watered or fed my plants for weeks, but they seem to be speeding up production, not slowing down!

[glasgowdan]

I plamted my 3 plants in tubs beside the house on the north facing side. I used home-made compost from the bin which was still a bit sweaty but they are producing really well. I think getting them going early, keeping them watered and using a really rich medium are key. Maybe the horse muck isn't what they want

[binley100]

I've got 7 plants, although I've just pulled one up as it annoyed me

lol ....what was it doing to deserve that ?

[bobbin]

Eeh Hello Bramble killer. Just read your post and thinking ..that clay sounds as bad as where I live. Then realised your Burgess Hill. I am Lindfield. Fancy that.Hope your courgettes are flourishing!

[bobbin]

courgette crisis.

Oh dear Bramble Killer just re read your post and they obviously are not flourishing. Hope I haven't depressed you even more. Mine are rubbish too..honest, but my lottie neighbour has ooooodles of the damn things.

[zazen999]

I'm on clay, and currently have 31 courgettes in the stock pot boiling down for freezing later, and 2 in the pot for eating tonight.

sorry.

[Alison]

I'm on clay, and currently have 31 courgettes in the stock pot boiling down for freezing later, and 2 in the pot for eating tonight.

sorry.

Are you just making a vegetable stock with the courgettes or is it something more interesting. At the moment I'm freezing surplus in chunks / slices for use in the winter although my supply is reduced by whoever it was that's been spending time up our plots with a knife cutting up fruit and veg - woman on the plot next to me lost all her apples

[zazen999]

Are you just making a vegetable stock with the courgettes or is it something more interesting. At the moment I'm freezing surplus in chunks / slices for use in the winter although my supply is reduced by whoever it was that's been spending time up our plots with a knife cutting up fruit and veg - woman on the plot next to me lost all her apples

I'm cooking in a little olive oil and pepper, so that the volume reduces by half; and then freezing in small batches for adding to winter stews/soups etc. Not got space for freezing in slices - I'm also giving loads away to neighbours who don't have gardens.