Hi, Can any one help me identify what this is growing in the allotment? I thought I’d planted a corg

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• neilbradburn Posts: 142

  August 2018

  Hi @purplerallim. I grew them last year (and this, for my sins :-) ). I grew them alongside red onion squashes, and they took a lot longer to reach full size and mature than the latter. For what it's worth, then did eventually store pretty well.

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• purplerallim Posts: 5,287

  August 2018

  Never grown squashes before @neilbradburn so it's all a learning curve for me.😀

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• Molly Bloom Posts: 23

  August 2018

  Yes, I agree with Scroggin. I grew a similar round yellow courgette some years ago. It far out-cropped the standard long green ones and imho had a better flavour and texture. They need to be picked young though - I found to my cost that they go the way of gourds and marrows if you leave them on the plant too long!

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• ZeroZero1 Posts: 577

  August 2018

  I have heard that if a courgette is planted near another member of the same family - e.g. a squash, then the fruits can be unexpected crosses

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• Hampshire Hog Posts: 330

  August 2018

  If they are F1 ball they need cutting when they get to three or four weeks regardless of size or they will go over as Molly said.

  "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  August 2018

  The pointy end makes it look like a "Lemon squash" a heritage variety.
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  August 2018

  ZeroZero1 said:

  I have heard that if a courgette is planted near another member of the same family - e.g. a squash, then the fruits can be unexpected crosses

  
  

  If cross-pollinated the  next generation ... the seed resulting from the cross-pollination ... will be crosses ... but the fruit containing the seed will not be a cross. 

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

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