hows your pumpkins and squashes

Hi guys / girls,

Just wondering how your pumpkins and squashes are coping with all this wet weather. We are just seeing the first true fruits forming and beginning to swell.

Click here to see our Summer squashes

How are yours doing? bigger? smaller? not planted yet? harvesting squashes?

We are also worried that the broad beans which are close to them have have chocolate spot and was wondering if this can affcted pumpkins

Also from down the plot this week, a bumper harvest of broad beans, potatoes, rhubarb, gooseberries, and raspberries. However with this rain comes the dreaded weeds and the possibility of blight.

Regards
Lottieblogs

 

Sounds like you've been busy, just off to read your blog now !

 

Very slow growing. Need some warmth to get them growing.

 

Here is something to give you all a laugh. I bought 2 yellow courgettes this year, one week apart from the same place and look what the first/bigger one is producing -



- if that isn't a pumpkin! Hubby thinks that the other one is heading the same way. Now, that would be a pity to not have any yummy yellow courgettes this year but it gets worse. I also bought a pumpkin plant which is now doing well after the initial slug attack. Had a few seeds from last year and plonked them in a planter with some other things and they are doing well too. Our next-door neighbour gave us 2 pumpkin plants, one from S. Africa and the other is a Butternut (?). We will be overrun with pumpkins if they all do well.

 

could be a round courgette? lol

 

There are some round yellow courgettes so you may get your courgettes after all.

 

Didn't know that Geoff, so I guess now we just wait and see. I'll let you know what comes of it and thanks for telling me.