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I have been looking for the right place to join so I can learn more about crosspollination and such. Last year I grew courgettes, marrow and pattypan squash, I also attempted butternut squash but for some reason they did very poorly. Anyway, the ones which did not sell and started to rot, I just put them into one of my compost bins, I gues that was around this time last year.
This year I wanted some home made compost and used that which had last years veg scraps in, well, I used this to grow my potatoes in, this year I have Pink Fir apple and Pentland javelin, just to see how they turned out. Well, there were some self set seed come up on one of the rows which I removed and planted in my next "allotment" area. I am lucky to have around one acre on the back of my tiny little cottage.
Well, they started to grow very well and had an abudance of flowers, when the fruit started to grow, I initially thought, courgettes, ok, that's fine but last weekend I went to check and found something I had never actually seen before, a Yellow Bush Marrow, well, not a normal yellow, but that of the yellow pattypan squash., I thought it must be a fluke somehow, but earlier today I have only found a White Bush Marrow grwoing in amongst them.
So obviosuly, some how they have joined together to make such colourful marrows, here is the other thought, I wonder if they shall be like a marrow inside or a squash?.. I have yet to try, but they are starting to grow large almost at a Pumpkin rate, I cannot wait to see just how large they actually become.
I would sincerely love anybodys input on this because I have been gardening here 8 years now and never come across something so strange, I shall be taking photos of them shortly.
I have been looking for the right place to join so I can learn more about crosspollination and such. Last year I grew courgettes, marrow and pattypan squash, I also attempted butternut squash but for some reason they did very poorly. Anyway, the ones which did not sell and started to rot, I just put them into one of my compost bins, I gues that was around this time last year.
This year I wanted some home made compost and used that which had last years veg scraps in, well, I used this to grow my potatoes in, this year I have Pink Fir apple and Pentland javelin, just to see how they turned out. Well, there were some self set seed come up on one of the rows which I removed and planted in my next "allotment" area. I am lucky to have around one acre on the back of my tiny little cottage.
Well, they started to grow very well and had an abudance of flowers, when the fruit started to grow, I initially thought, courgettes, ok, that's fine but last weekend I went to check and found something I had never actually seen before, a Yellow Bush Marrow, well, not a normal yellow, but that of the yellow pattypan squash., I thought it must be a fluke somehow, but earlier today I have only found a White Bush Marrow grwoing in amongst them.
So obviosuly, some how they have joined together to make such colourful marrows, here is the other thought, I wonder if they shall be like a marrow inside or a squash?.. I have yet to try, but they are starting to grow large almost at a Pumpkin rate, I cannot wait to see just how large they actually become.
I would sincerely love anybodys input on this because I have been gardening here 8 years now and never come across something so strange, I shall be taking photos of them shortly.
, I shall definitely go and do that just to see what I get next year, sorry to seem overly excited, but to me, it is! Thank you for replying! my own organic F1.. yayyy! I shall take some photos tomorrow
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