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Butternut Squash growing
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 8 Oct 2010 08:54 |
Oh Gwen I am so pleased for you. A baby at last!! |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 7 Oct 2010 17:19 |
Guess what?..... There is a squash forming.! |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 Sep 2010 22:13 |
Ah...Thank you..maybe that's the answer...! |
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Thelma | Report | 16 Sep 2010 21:35 |
My hubby picks the male flower and rubs it all over the female. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 Sep 2010 19:54 |
Thank you for all the great replies....and recipe! |
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Julia | Report | 16 Sep 2010 17:21 |
Wend. Good luck with entertaining the troops, and thanks for the recipe. Will give this version a try on Saturday when I do all my cooking for the freezer. |
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Wend | Report | 16 Sep 2010 17:17 |
Thanks, Julia. I haven't been to my allotment this afternoon, as had to prepare for my daughter coming down to stay for a few days with the kiddiwinks. Other types of beds to deal with, etc. They've just arrived, so I'm off to get into 'Nana' mode now, playing hide 'n' seek, doing puzzles, reading stories, changing nappies etc. - all good fun! |
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Wend | Report | 16 Sep 2010 17:09 |
For anyone interested, this is quite a tasty soup recipe. Don't know if it can be frozen though. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 16 Sep 2010 14:31 |
My beans (runner and french) were not good this year, but my carrots have been great! My pak choi got nibbled by something - not sure what, just loads of tiny pinprick holes in the leaves. |
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Julia | Report | 16 Sep 2010 14:24 |
Hello Wend, this is for you when you get back from the allotment. |
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Wend | Report | 16 Sep 2010 13:52 |
Morning all - I'm here! Julia, I can't remember for the life of me what advice I gave about butternut squash, because I'm not really an expert. I think you're a far more experienced veggie grower than me. However, I have tried growing them in my garden in the past and didn't have much success - just a couple of fruit per plant. This year, having acquired an allotment, I decided to try them there and planted seeds taken from a supermarket squash in a raised bed filled with good compost and manure and covered with that black membrane stuff, and the results have been outstanding. Loads of large fruit, which at the moment are pale green, but slowly turning yellow. I guess the proof of the pudding will be in the eating, as they say. Having read Mel's advice, I shall have to see. Meanwhile, I'd better get over to my allotment to pick a few I think and hope for some sunshine to ripen them up. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 16 Sep 2010 11:30 |
I always grow mine from packet of seed - they are not that easy, and I normally only get about 2 to germinate out of a packet of 6 seeds.Two plants went in this year and I've got several fruits. Once they are established, they do quite well. It does sound like your plant may have been grown from 'duff' seed. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 16 Sep 2010 11:10 |
Where did you buy the plant? is my first question. |
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Julia | Report | 16 Sep 2010 10:55 |
Morning Gwen in Kent. The person you need to speak to is Wend. She gave advice on here earlier in the year when I asked a similar question to yourself. I planted one, which has one fruit on. A gallon of soup this will not make LOL |
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Uggers | Report | 16 Sep 2010 10:32 |
Hello Gwyn, my cousin stuck four plants in (in the South East) and pretty much left them alone. They now cover a huge area and there is so much of the damned things we all keep getting given them. So that's no help to you at all really is it - probably luck or perhaps you need two of them? |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 Sep 2010 09:09 |
Does anyone know the secret of growing these, or is it just luck? |