Blimey Zig...that's ridiculous...but know the feeling well...normally well corgetted up by now....Only had 2 marrows aswell and they were nothing to write home about
I've had about half a dozen so far. Unfortunately it looks like my best, most productive plant is finishing now too. Out of about a dozen plants, most are doing most feebly.
Only one plant survived the slugs this year & its only been producing boysey flowers all summer. Just noticed the girly one this morning.
Come back off hols to a marrow, only two spindly courgettes since then. Done better than the squashes which passed on to a better world back in July.
Its not going to get much better in the future i'm afraid. Its looking like solar output will be dropping for the rest of the century, and that will have an effect on where the jet stream is positioned
If its right, we'll just have to adapt wont we. Skin is waterproof, and gardens can be adapted to suit their environment. We can't do much about the reduced sunshine, so maybe the brief spell of being able to grow the likes of tomatoes outdoors in the UK might be over, but other stuff grows. Britain has always been a soggy wet place. Its one of the reasons why we've been invaded so many times times. You can't have a green and pleasant land without rain.
Courgettes have definitely been a bit late this year, even here. Mine usually peak around late July and August and begin to tail off in September. This year the peak has come in September, I've had more this month than I had in July and August combined. Don't think I'll get many more now though, the powdery mildew has arrived.
Have a read of a book called "Who Moved my Cheese" Jenny Its no good having the most sophisticated sensor & data recording systems that Mankind has ever seen if we don't try to interpret the results. Clueless is right, we may just have to adjust the crops we grow, we've had it good for a while with the warmer climate crops, but just look at the losses of the past few winters.
