In the Garden

[grovesy]

I tasted one - it tasted like a raspberry! Disappointing if they're not going to grow any bigger! 😱

They don't look as though they are properly formed to me.

 

[chaoticcar]

They could have been short of water during the dry spell mine are not as juicy as usual (even the ones that chicken left !!!)
Carol

 

[PattiEvans]

You need an acid soil to produce blue ones. So either fork in some ericacious compost, or water it with left over cold tea, (or you can buy stuff, sequestered iron, I think) This is assuming your soil is chalky or limestone, or something else naturally alkaline. (Can you grow rhododendrons in your area? That’s a good test, they will only grow well in acidic soil). If your soil is already acidic, then I’m stumped!

I can't really fork anything around it as it's in the middle of the front lawn. I will try watering it with cold tea! Many thanks for the tip! The soil is a mystery, underlying clay but topsoil was imported when they built the houses.

 

[NotPink]

Last year I pushed some pumpkin seeds into some pots and forgot about them. Now they have leafed and flowered so maybe they will fruit? Who knows. Still excited though just to get the flowers. Beautiful shape and colour.

 

[trophywench]

That's not a sunflower. And sunflowers don't fruit. Look more like courgette/cucumber flowers to me.

 

[grovesy]

That's not a sunflower. And sunflowers don't fruit. Look more like courgette/cucumber flowers to me.

My thought too!

 

[Fagor]

Some pruning required...
There's an apple tree somewhere behind those plants.

 

[trophywench]

Are you sure? 🙄

 

[Leadinglights]

We came back from the allotment yesterday with a bumper crop of peas (no grubs first time ever), French beans, broad beans, courgettes, beetroot, cucumber, redcurrants and tayberries.
It is good to see all the effort rewarded. But the badgers had been at the carrots despite then being under a cage which they pushed out of the way.

 

[Northerner]

Well, I didn't kill it! 😱 🙂

After my savage pruning:



Now:

 

[Drummer]

Last year I pushed some sunflower seeds into some pots and forgot about them. Now they have leafed and flowered so maybe they will fruit? Who knows. Still excited though just to get the flowers. Beautiful shape and colour.View attachment 17939View attachment 17940

Ah - courgette or cucumber - those are the male flowers, you want shorter ones with thicker stems for fruits.

 

[grovesy]

I quite often brutally prune shrubs and plants, mostly without disastrous results.

 

[NotPink]

Ah - courgette or cucumber - those are the male flowers, you want shorter ones with thicker stems for fruits.

Oh dear I only planted pumpkin seeds so what happened?

 

[NotPink]

I quite often brutally prune shrubs and plants, mostly without disastrous results.

Doesn't it make you feel good after a brutal pruning of shrubs?

 

[NotPink]

That's not a sunflower. And sunflowers don't fruit. Look more like courgette/cucumber flowers to me.

They are... I don't know why I said sunflowers they are pumpkins. I was mentally in another place when I posted that. I was thinking about why sunflowers don't thrive in our garden either in post or garden. Silly me.

 

[NotPink]

That's not a sunflower. And sunflowers don't fruit. Look more like courgette/cucumber flowers to me.

Corrected...loopy loo these days. Due to staying in too long.

 

[Drummer]

Oh dear I only planted pumpkin seeds so what happened?

Ah still the same family - cucurbita, so they share the same flower design, I just thought of things I was likely to grow in the garden here - with my experience of courgettes, I would hesitate to allow pumpkins onto the plot - the heaviest courgette I grew was almost 7lb....but it hid itself away very successfully along with one about 5lb which I found on the same day - they became marrow and ginger jam.

 

[Leadinglights]

Ah still the same family - cucurbita, so they share the same flower design, I just thought of things I was likely to grow in the garden here - with my experience of courgettes, I would hesitate to allow pumpkins onto the plot - the heaviest courgette I grew was almost 7lb....but it hid itself away very successfully along with one about 5lb which I found on the same day - they became marrow and ginger jam.

They do have a habit of doing that in you blink your eye. Oversize courgettes usually get turned into soup with added brie.

 

[NotPink]

Ah still the same family - cucurbita, so they share the same flower design, I just thought of things I was likely to grow in the garden here - with my experience of courgettes, I would hesitate to allow pumpkins onto the plot - the heaviest courgette I grew was almost 7lb....but it hid itself away very successfully along with one about 5lb which I found on the same day - they became marrow and ginger jam.

thanks...😡

 

[eggyg]

Our courgettes are doing well, I’m picking them when they’re about 5/6 inches long. We’re having a family BBQ on Sunday and I’m going to experiment BBQing them. Anyone done that? Think I might coat them in something, breadcrumbs maybe, brush with oil? Won’t take long I don’t suppose, or I may just grate them and put them in a cold pasta salad.