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I tried to find the garden’s best side to take today but there wasn’t one ! The sky was on low wattage and the plants are only a few leaves short of being sadder than a needleless, tinsel- stripped Christmas Tree on Twelfth Night. And if that wasn’t injury enough, I had to garden in a cagoule…. hood up !
But through the gloom, the gifts keep coming, 6kg this week – and one courgette ! There maybe another on the way but then, that maybe that. I will need to take a courgette masterclass next year if ratatouille is ever to be part of my repertoire !
There are still some ‘big’ varieties yet to ripen but this week Snowberry joined the ripe roll call.
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Wow, they look fabby. I’ve heard wonderful things about ‘Snowberry’ and look forward to your comments on it. I’m glad your plants are still providing you with yummy fruits; they seem to have forgiven you for their ‘haircut’.
My plants are still producing good fruits, although they’re ripening more slowly than yours. I have a lovely, knobbly and rudely-shaped ‘Gold Medal’ , probably a result of fasciation (fruits becoming fused). Edward Weston would have been proud if it!
Courgettes are as easy as tomatoes; start them early (March or April), plant out after last frost and keep them well-watered during dry spells. They like to get their roots down, so you’ll want large containers or grow in soil. If you leave them to mature, they’ll turn into marrows. Mine seem to have a white mildew-type fungus that turns the leaves grey, but the fruits have been good so I haven’t worried about it.
Here’s the BBC’s Guide to growing courgettes, which i hope you’ll find useful.
I’ve taken some photos of Snowberry and put them on today’s post. I think pale coloured fruit have to overcome a psychological hurdle in that somehow I think their taste will be insipid. However this one would do well in any taste test – a nice tomato !
I wasn’t aware of the fasciation phenomenon ! Now I do it explains the weird shaped Carbons from last year. And I think I have a Purple Cherokee fusion going on this year ! Thanks for the links.
Thank you as well for the courgette info and links. Funnily enough I have the white fungus and the grey leaves – but not the courgettes to go with it ! Mine are in growbags – as are some along my road in a front garden – and they look just as sad – so I blame the grow bags !