Cucurbit Growing 2018

[veggiechicken]

Basic heated propagator to germinate and after that, window sills - no lights. The cukes and courgettes looked a lot better than the toms sown at the same time and treated identically.

[fon]

These were sown on the 1st of Jan and grown on a windowsill.

Now out in the greenhouse but come in every night.

One plant is up to chest height.

https://imgur.com/a/UOepW8i

Fon

[Small pumpkin]

All 3 varieties of melon, Thelma sanders, Queensland blue have all germinated

[happyhumph]

None sowed yet, will be doing summer crookneck, black beauty courgette, tromboncino, spaghetti squash, and a packet of 50 mystery winter squash, all to be sowed this week. Best get cracking!

[Bren In Pots]

I've sown my courgettes and cucs this afternoon.

[happyhumph]

Oh yes, forgot the cucs

[Small pumpkin]

Galeux D'Eysines & uchiki kuri have germinated

[Chris11]

First courgette germinated

[sparrow100]

Squash selection for this year:
Baby Blue Hubbard
Chirimen
Geraumon Martinique
Lower Salmon River
Noob Taub
Shishigatani
Sibleys
Sweet Dumpling
Thelma Sanders
Ute Indian
Whangaparoa Crown
Zapallito de Tronco (for HSL)

I've lost my North Georgia Candy Roaster seeds, but if I find them in time, a couple will be going in too!

Courgettes: stripey, yellow, green, scallop

Melons: Ogen, watermelon crimson sweet

Something of a mammoth sowing session that!!

[Small pumpkin]

Still waiting for this lot to germinate. But most are coming.
Courgette de nizza ( round ).
Courgette Tuscany.
Pumpkin old boer white
Squash vegetable spaghetti
Squash acorn table Gold
Squash Turks turban
Squash sweet dumpling


This lot I potted on today.
Courgette Tromboncino
Pumpkin small sugar.
Pumpkin Lil' Pump-ke-mom
Squash Queensland blue
Squash Galeux D'Eysines
Squash uchiki kuri
Squash Thelma sanders sweet potato
Squash summer sunburst f1
Melon honeydew
melon gala
melon plum granny
Cucumber femspot

I've added cucamelon to the list. Not germinated yet, but not been in as long as the others.

[veggiechicken]

^^^^ Where's your luffa???

[Small pumpkin]

^^^^ Where's your luffa???

Never going to happen

Mind you, I said I'd never grow cucamelon again

[Thelma Sanders]

I have 2 types of indoor cukes through and one out of 4 Petit Gris melons seems to be making an effort
I haven't even started sowing my squash, no need to hurry with the forecast for cool weather well into May and the greenhouse is already overflowing, without adding more lol

[Bren In Pots]

All the cucs and courgettes I'd sown 5 days ago have germinated and are out of the HP.

Burpless Tasty green cuc.

Courgettes
Romanesco
Black beauty
Di Nizza
Tondo Di piacenza

[HoneyChild]

Sowed Telepathy cucumber seeds in 09/04/18 then when they germinated a few days later I placed them under basic LED lights. On 22/04/18 I then pricked them out into separate pots:



Left - placed on kitchen windowsill. Placed white card behind to reflect light. Kitchen is warm due to range cooker being boiler for central heating system. Window is SW so gets reasonable amount of sun.

Middle - placed in cold greenhouse all day and all night

Right - in warm utility room under basic LED lights for 14 hrs/day.



28/04/18



Left - getting quite leggy but produced a nice true leaf with a second on the way.

Middle - only grown a little

Right - nice and sturdy (no leggyness), good true leaf and another on the way.

It's interesting to see how big a difference there is between the 3 plants in such a short space of time. Ideally I would have about 5 plants in each group but it's a good start.