no courgettes this year

[janeyo]

or pumpkins as the flaming deer has been and eaten them. Munch munch teeth marks left in the stems and vegetables left half chewed.


Rang the 2 local garden centres and they are sold out of plants for replacement.

[chris]

deer?! You must be really rural!

[Creemteez]

Shame Janeyo, I've got about ten volunteer Jack o Lanterns which I could really do without, but haven't the heart to uproot. I'd send you a couple, but as they are about two feet long already I don't think they'd survive the transfer.
Do you garden privately or on a lottie? Maybe one of the local lottie owners could help you out with something?

[ginger ninger]

Mmmm, Bambi with a taste for squash...that's not good Jan. I wish I lived nearer to you. I could let you have a couple of plants. Are there no grapes near that can help you out?

[janeyo]

We are on the edge of a small village. The deer have been fenced out of my garden (we ate one of them last year). I grow on a pathc of wasteland next to my house, which obviously has the deer in there too! It's woodland at the bottom so they hide).

I do have a lottie, but I swear the fairies come and plant stuff in the middle of the night on everyone else's plot as it doesn't matter when or what time I go it's deserted!

I have looked online and all sold out too.

maybe if I rig up some netting they will recoer enough to give me one or 2 at the end of the season (although the deer are quite determined!)

off to look for a photo of the ones that used to come in the garden

[janeyo]

Here ya go

[chris]

That's cool, I bet they taste great!

[Potstubsdustbins]

The remedy would seem to be Muntjac pie.

Colin

[Rabidbun]

Looks like there's a guy selling courgette and pumpkin plants on eBay atm, 2-3" high. Not used them, 99.7 feedback score...

[janeyo]

Hadn't entered his my lil ole head to try ebay!
Problem solved.
And these ones will go in the garden where the broadies have vacated... no deer there

Thanks

[Florence Fennel]

Glad to hear you've got some replacements.

[TallGirl]

Dammit, venison instead?

[AntonyM]

It isn't too late to sow courgettes from seed .... I usually start a couple off about now - they will then be producing nice fresh courgettes through late Aug/Sept, when my first courgette plants are getting a bit tired ......they will keep going the frosts if you are lucky