How's everyone squash doing

[Guest]

Mine are getting there I just don't know if they will be ready in time

[poly]

White Volunteer courgette are going really well, can't keep up with them.
Mixed results from the winter squash, Potimarron are doing well also Autumn Crown. Some of the butternuts have fruit but mostly quite small. They are all a bit over grow now, not so easy to spot fruit!

[Ovce dom�c�]

Harvested about ten Hokkaidos today, we have been eating a few recently too. Hoping for another late crop. Here they are behind an onion selfie:

[Jay-ell]

Well, I'm still playing with my laptop so here is an update video

And of course boys love their toys so here it s in 3D

[treepixie]

Well my large squash have a least 2 fruits on them, and the smaller squash are also doing ok, had to harvest the uchiki Kuri as the plant died.


Galeux d'eysines and a tonda padana

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[Thelma Sanders]

A P poor year for squash here.
Only 2 Celebration have set, no Sweet Lightning at all, 4 very small Hunter butternuts, 1 small Burgess Buttercup (although the vine is enormous) and 1 Uchiki Kuri.

Another 2 huge plants at home, I think they are Pink Banana and a different variety of Butternut, have no fruit on at all

They've had the same feed and watering as last year - but they haven't been really happy this year!

[sparrow100]

As long as they all mature and none of them fall off I will have:
4 small black futsus, 1 shishigatani (off 2 plants!), 1 berretina piacentina, 2 sweet dumpling, 2 flat whites, 1 jarrahdale (again, 2 plants), 2 geraumon martinique, 1 marina di chioggia, 1 tiny & not worth it burgess buttercup, 2 trombas, 3 potimarron, 3 not so small small sugars.

Most of them are much smaller than they should be, there is only usually one per plant (22 plants!) and no butternuts at all. It's been a dismal year for them, I've had umpteen aborted fruits. I was hoping to be giving lots away, but that's just enough for us over winter.

[datz]

We have 3 enormous pottimaron on 2 plants, and have already picked about 8 "Sunburst" patty pans off one plant and it's still going strong. They are great as you don't need to peel! However they do seem to have hybridised with the pottimaron into larger squash! Unless the Lidl seeds were mislabeled.

[sparrow100]

They don't look like patty pans...but that won't be the result of a cross this season, if it is, but from when the seeds you sowed were grown.

Potimarron and pattypans won't cross though. The first is a c.maxima and the second is a c.pepo. They will all cross within their families, but not outside. What you might have is a cross between a patty pan and a summer crookneck, which is warty. Or it might be a mislabelling and you have something entirely different - I've not seen a yellow warty squash like that before though so wouldn't be able to tell you which it is.

[veggiechicken]

What squash?
All plants have disappeared.
Almost the same with the courgettes - I've only had 5. Last year I was rolling in them.
Been a really poor year for squashy things

[Penellype]

I have huge numbers of courgettes. Some of the (bush) plants are so big that I have had to grow them upwards using canes, and for the first time ever they have started to branch and form more courgettes near the bottom of the stem. I picked 5 courgettes the day before yesterday and 4 yesterday, and there are more...

The cucumbers are another matter. There are 2 plants outside and they are huge, healthy looking and covered in flowers. Until today all of the flowers were female, and all attempts to pollinate them with male flowers brought from my friend's greenhouse have failed. Today I found a single male flower. Hopefully the bees will find him too.

The melons are a complete write-off. Sick looking plants with no flowers, brown and curled up leaves and a generally suicidal air about them.

[rosiepumpkin]

I have one pumpkin that is an inch wide, so we'll see if that is worth bothering with at this time of year.

[datz]

Thanks Sparrow100, that's very interesting. They make good eating so not too bothered.

They don't look like patty pans...but that won't be the result of a cross this season, if it is, but from when the seeds you sowed were grown.

Potimarron and pattypans won't cross though. The first is a c.maxima and the second is a c.pepo. They will all cross within their families, but not outside. What you might have is a cross between a patty pan and a summer crookneck, which is warty. Or it might be a mislabelling and you have something entirely different - I've not seen a yellow warty squash like that before though so wouldn't be able to tell you which it is.

[bario1]

I've got 3 Crown Prince about the size of softballs - really hoping they'll fatten up and turn that gorgeous grey blue colour, as I've never grown them before.

[Lumpy]

I chose Table King variety as they are a compact bush type and are small enough to go into an oven whole.

Well.........I think I only need a very small, less than Hobbit size oven to fit them All in and have space for a whopping great fruit crumble.