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First of all I apologise for the length of this posting but I wanted to include a bit of backgroundinformation.
At the moment have a modest little private plot. It's big enough for 8 4ft x 15ft beds with 2ft paths, however one bed got cut down when they had to do works on the drains and foundations of the church, I've got my strawberries in most of what's left of that bed. So down to 7 beds.
In order to put up a blowaway greenhouse, compost bins and a cold frame I took up another bed - 6 beds left.
Realising that a 6ft x 4ft greenhouse isn't going to cope with the tomatoes, peppers, chillies, aubergine, tomatillo, melons, cucamelons and cucumbers I want to grow I'm going to put up another blowaway to share the load - down to 5.5 beds
I'm going to put up three arches at the end of 4 of these beds arching over the paths. The arches are 3ft deep and 4ft wide so I'll end up with 6 vertical 3ft trellis areas, the 3ft x 3ft areas and 4 12ft beds.
I seem to have gotten a bug for squash and their ilk. Last year I grew Costa Romanesco courgette, Marketmore cucumbers and Baby Bear squash and loved them all (suddenly I think I'm developing a pumpkin habit). and since then I have acquired a number of squash, courgette, cucumber and melon seed, which I am planning to grow up the sides o the arches, in the greenhouse, at the end of the strawberries, up wideband in the square bits at the end of the beds an underneath my sweetcorn (which I am under orders to grow because old last year's corn was lush) so now I need to work out which to grow where.
In the greenhouse I plan on growing chameleons, Sweetheart F1 melon, possible honeydew melon and cucumbers. The two varieties I have are Marketmore and ChineseSlangen, both of which are outdoors varieties. Will these be ok in the greenhouse as long as I let pollinatorsin or hand pollinate?
For congregated I have Romanesco, Tondo di Piacenza (both Bush) which may go at the bottom of the strawberry bed. I also have Shooting Star and Black Forest which are both touted as climbers so these will be trained up and tied to two of the arch sides. I also have summer squash F1 Polo Path Pan squash. As it's a summer squash would I be correct in assumingthat this is also a Bush plant?
That leaves me with the squash, four trellis areas, two wigwams and the sweetcorn - 7 grow areas and 12 different varieties, so some will have to go. Ok, the varieties I have are:-
Pumpkin Jack O Lantern
Waltham Butternut Squash
Pumpkin Atlantic Giant
Sweet Dumpling Winter Squash
Small Sugar Pumpkin
Jack Be Little pumpkin
Golden Hubbard Winter Squash
Pumpkin Hundredweight
Cha Cha F1 squash
Vegetable squash
Turks Turban
Miranda winter squash
OK, if I drop the two biggies (Hundredweight and Atlantic Giant) that still leaves 3 extra. Are all of these varieties vining or are any Bush types? Which ones would be best grown up the sides of the arches or up the wigwams? Are there any that would be too big to grow amongst the sweetcorn (thinking pumpkins pushing over the corn as they grow)? Out of these varieties are there any you wouldn't bother with or,conversely, would be a definite for your plot.
At the moment have a modest little private plot. It's big enough for 8 4ft x 15ft beds with 2ft paths, however one bed got cut down when they had to do works on the drains and foundations of the church, I've got my strawberries in most of what's left of that bed. So down to 7 beds.
In order to put up a blowaway greenhouse, compost bins and a cold frame I took up another bed - 6 beds left.
Realising that a 6ft x 4ft greenhouse isn't going to cope with the tomatoes, peppers, chillies, aubergine, tomatillo, melons, cucamelons and cucumbers I want to grow I'm going to put up another blowaway to share the load - down to 5.5 beds
I'm going to put up three arches at the end of 4 of these beds arching over the paths. The arches are 3ft deep and 4ft wide so I'll end up with 6 vertical 3ft trellis areas, the 3ft x 3ft areas and 4 12ft beds.
I seem to have gotten a bug for squash and their ilk. Last year I grew Costa Romanesco courgette, Marketmore cucumbers and Baby Bear squash and loved them all (suddenly I think I'm developing a pumpkin habit). and since then I have acquired a number of squash, courgette, cucumber and melon seed, which I am planning to grow up the sides o the arches, in the greenhouse, at the end of the strawberries, up wideband in the square bits at the end of the beds an underneath my sweetcorn (which I am under orders to grow because old last year's corn was lush) so now I need to work out which to grow where.
In the greenhouse I plan on growing chameleons, Sweetheart F1 melon, possible honeydew melon and cucumbers. The two varieties I have are Marketmore and ChineseSlangen, both of which are outdoors varieties. Will these be ok in the greenhouse as long as I let pollinatorsin or hand pollinate?
For congregated I have Romanesco, Tondo di Piacenza (both Bush) which may go at the bottom of the strawberry bed. I also have Shooting Star and Black Forest which are both touted as climbers so these will be trained up and tied to two of the arch sides. I also have summer squash F1 Polo Path Pan squash. As it's a summer squash would I be correct in assumingthat this is also a Bush plant?
That leaves me with the squash, four trellis areas, two wigwams and the sweetcorn - 7 grow areas and 12 different varieties, so some will have to go. Ok, the varieties I have are:-
Pumpkin Jack O Lantern
Waltham Butternut Squash
Pumpkin Atlantic Giant
Sweet Dumpling Winter Squash
Small Sugar Pumpkin
Jack Be Little pumpkin
Golden Hubbard Winter Squash
Pumpkin Hundredweight
Cha Cha F1 squash
Vegetable squash
Turks Turban
Miranda winter squash
OK, if I drop the two biggies (Hundredweight and Atlantic Giant) that still leaves 3 extra. Are all of these varieties vining or are any Bush types? Which ones would be best grown up the sides of the arches or up the wigwams? Are there any that would be too big to grow amongst the sweetcorn (thinking pumpkins pushing over the corn as they grow)? Out of these varieties are there any you wouldn't bother with or,conversely, would be a definite for your plot.
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