Courgettes, Cucumbers & Aubergines

Fc, my tuppence worth ...
Aubergines - I've tried a few times (in pots in unheated garden room) and the best I could do was a few feeble Frankenstein-like specimens. Never again.
Courgettes - tried once in a big pot on the patio of a previous property when had no proper veg space and the outcome was miserable. Of course, put a couple in fairly good soil in the ground and you could feed a batallion.
Cucumbers - I'm the only eater in this household, so I've grown both 'Mini' and 'Iznik' outdoors with success and a decent harvest in a fair sized pot in the garden room. Perhaps might be good on the patio on a ladder?
I do think patio veg growing is a real challenge in this climate, though maybe it is my lack of skill.

Good luck
GG

 

I'm not much better than that. I grow about 20 plants in the greenhouse (in the border), and reckon to get 2 decent fruits per plant if I am lucky. Thus you need plenty of greenhouse space for a decent crop.

You can cut off the bottom-half of a Cucumber, on the plant, and come back for the other half several days later, so that may be a suitable alternative to growing Mini's (not that there is anything wrong with Mini's per se )

 

Gawd, had no idea you could do that, never thought about it before. But now you say so, seems logical since you can do it quite successfully in the fridge. Might get a bit soggy perhaps if you leave the cut half on the vine too long.

GG

 

Evening
For the past few years I've grown Natsuhikari F1 which is a Japanese hybrid. It is fairly tolerant and disease resistant, but not all female and produces a good crop of well flavoured fruit in my greenhouse when grown in deep pots. It does tend to produce in cycles though. My courgettes (outside in the ground) tend to suffer more from powdery mildew than the cucumbers do.
I gave up on Aubergines some years after to moving Devon from Essex due to the lower sunlight levels and generally cooler summers.
Along with the cucumbers the greenhouse will, hopefully, be home to the usual assorted tomatoes, sweet pepper Californian Wonder, a number of chilli plants, from my own saved seed, quite a lot of basil a couple of melons and I might try coriander again this summer.
Nigel