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Courgette

FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
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Evening! I think I know the answer but hoping someone will prove me wrong! I am going to grow 2 types of courgette this year, Burpees Golden and Striato Di Napoli. I have a container that’s 60cmx35 deep... can I get away with one of each in there, or best stick to one? I don’t need them to be super prolific as the rest of my family swear blind they are allergic to fruit and veg!😆
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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Only one in a pot that size. Personally I think it will need something bigger.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Thanks. I would if I could. I’m going to struggle this year with one raised bed as more building works in the garden! So I’m just trying to use what I have..:)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The Courgette plants I’ve grown grow to about three feet diameter. They sometimes trail even more than that.  It may say on the packet to plant them 3’ apart.  They’ll struggle in those size pots. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I usually allow 1m x 1m for each courgette plant.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I think they'll be fine in that pot, well one of them anyway, yes they may not make it as big as one in open ground, but you probably don't want two huge prolific plants anyway if it is just you eating them!
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Thanks everyone. One it is. I would love to pander to it, but I can’t, I don’t have the space. I’m growing everything close together this year, caution to the wind, stretching the boundaries, going where lots of people have probably gone before and had successes and failures, but that is gardening! I don’t need prize veg, or especially big veg, carrots and beetroot are sprouting in buckets on the patio and I have 1 bed of 1m90x1.2 to grow everything... and I really am growing a lot but just small quantities of fast crops in successive sowings... that’s the plan anyway, my head is spinning to plan it lol!!!
  • veggie fingersveggie fingers Posts: 28
    I saw a really good idea in a children's veg patch last year they had stacked four old tyres and filled them with compost and grown courgette's and the plant looked very healthy and had loads of fruit on it. Its a good way of saving space and recycling 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Veggi fingers, Is that YOU Bob Flowerdew!!! Last year I grew Mr Fothergills, Courettes "Zuccini", in those black plastic tubs that that pretein shake stuff comes in, placed in metal planters to keep them away from the slugs, one in each, grown firstly from seed in greenhouses, to give them a start, planted in half compost half manure.  Now the punpkins, thats another story, they took over the veg plot by about 12 feet.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Why not grow trailing courgettes rather than the bush type, and grow them up a frame?
    You'll have room for more plants ... the problem with only growing one courgette plant is the possibility of a lack of flowers for pollination.

    https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/vegging-out/courgettes-up-pole_17412.html 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Thanks Dovefromabove! Didn’t know there were trailers, already have my seed for this year, hey ho! I will grow more than one plant....somewhere lol! I’m not too bothered about it this year. My future veg garden is currently a rubble mountain and we have paths and other structures to do in the rest of the garden, diggers are moving into the front in 3 weeks and I have tadpoles to watch - they are very distracting lol!
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