Courgettes anyone planted out yet

A TOTAL failure, June was just too cold and wet

 

We are drowning in courgettes! I've had almost 3kgs of pretty big ones off of 2 plants in a large container on our patio. Can't believe it and the plants are huge, and they taste great.

Our garden (more of a yard) is pretty sheltered so think we've had just the right conditions. I gave loads of our seedlings away earlier in the year:

• 2 to my parents which haven't been very successful
• 1 to my FIL no success
• 2 to my brother who has also been suffering from courgette overload!

Since the wet weather returned the slugs/snails have been going hell for leather on the foliage. The plants are big enough they can easily reach the leaves without going near the pellets near the base

 

Im getting 1 or 2 a day, & loosing about the same number to the damp, slugs & snails. Ive got six, huge plants so Im expecting a glut at some point..

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One of my best crops this year!

 

Both the slugs & I missed this one hidden at the back of the plant - Im tempted to enter it in the Pumpkin growing comp ..
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This is the sum of mine....no girlie flowers but one must have hung around

 

Yup, mine are producing well now too ... v.late though :( I think I will sow a couple early next year; I've been telling everyone not to start too early because they hate the cool nights at end of May (and even early in June), but I think I need to try to find a way to get SOME production earlier in any year that turns out to be lousy, like this one.

Maybe plant in greenhouse and hoof-out when the outdoor ones are up to speed?

Half my greenhouse crops have been hoofed-out in favour of pots of hedging plants to get them to sprint on a bit into the Autumn, I'll then overwinter them in the greenhouse and plant out in the Spring. They are comfortable 12-18" taller (Holm oaks and Holly) that the ones that were planted straight out last Autumn [and the wet season has been perfect growing for hedges, so the outdoor ones are as good as it gets ...)