How's everyone squash doing

[treepixie]

Normally by this time I have quite a few squash, but this year hardly anything, butter nuts are very small as are all my squash.

I think it's down to the cold start to the growing season, how are yours doing.

[Lumpy]

Well, I have leaves if that counts. No sign of flowers but I live in hope.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Plenty of courgettes, but the plants are dying back now.

[sparrow100]

Mine all seem to be fine. I sowed most a bit later due to the cold and they are really taking off now.

[1Bee]

I've got two courgette plants who have provided ten or so very small courgettes, but now are are slowing down. I've got two squash plants that are doing okay, but no fruit yet. Then there's two courgettes and one pumpkin which are small, yellow, and putting on no growth, so they're a gonner, I think.

*sighs* Apart from that brief heat wave it's been rarely over 16C here, sadly.

[Stan79]

Courgettes are fine but a bit slow. Squash died this year and they've been good in the past two years!

[Jay-ell]

I've got a couple of courgettes which are giving me a couple of fruit each visit.

I've a couple of yellow climbing courgettes which have no inclination to climb but now have a couple of embryonic courgettes on them.

Sweet Dumplings aren't wanting to climb or flower yet, same as my trombones.

My Hubbard squash, jack o lanterns and jack be little are going slowly but not flowering yet.

Cha Cha and Waltham butternut are growing but not flowering.

Summer Squash Polo has good growth but needs to get it's flowers out.

One of my Atlantic Giant's got female flowers ready to open, its males have been open for a while.

The other Atlantic Giant has been throttled by a hundredweight pumpkin so I pulled it as it wasn't going to do well.

The hundredweight in question is romping away and has a couple of female flowers which I've just tickled today.

The other hundredweight has four ickle pumpkins about the size of a chocolate orange (I know it's customary to compare sizes to sports balls bit I have no idea how big a cricket ball is - I do know how big a chocolate orange is)

[veggiechicken]

What courgettes?
What squash?
What Pumpkins?

All decimated by summat! I do have some tromboncino waiting to be planted out but I'm a bit afraid to do so in case they disappear overnight like the others.

[Jay-ell]

Just remembered that I've got two more trombones and a couple of marrows in the shack. No space to put them though.

Wonder if they'd grow in a morrisons bucket?

[skeggijon]

All but one courgette committed suicide. Jack o Lanterns never showed up. Butternuts stuck their heads up then went back underground.

My one remaining Atlantic Giant is going great guns though. with several pumpkins on it - the largest is about football sized

[ESBkevin]

Started with 4 yellow courgettes off two plants last week but the two green plants are not yet properly in flower. Squash - they look healthy plants but no fruit yet. Did lose one squash and one courgette plant early on though (just as well as there is insufficient space anyway).
I even have outdoor cucumbers developing fruit this year, that's a first!

[Ovce dom�c�]

Got 3 Piacenza Courgettes giving about 3-5 palm sized fruits a week. Also got about 6 Hokkaido pumpkin plants which after an early battle to fend off the slugs which looked like they were going to kill them are threatening to take over half the plot, crowding out the leeks and beans. Only a few small pumpkins so far, not to eat.

[vixylix]

Started with 4 yellow courgettes off two plants last week but the two green plants are not yet properly in flower. Squash - they look healthy plants but no fruit yet. Did lose one squash and one courgette plant early on though (just as well as there is insufficient space anyway).
I even have outdoor cucumbers developing fruit this year, that's a first!

think it must be a good year for outdoor cucumbers - people keep telling me they've never managed to get anything from them - but I've had 5 decent sized cuces already and more still coming through.

The courgettes (the only squash I have room for unfortunately - I desperately want to grow some turk's turbans) have produced maybe 3 small courgettes and aren't being overly productive - everyone told me with 5 courgette plants I'd have them coming out of my ears!

Nice to know that even people with many year's experience can be thrown off by mother nature!!

[WPG]

I lost a few courgette plants to the cold and wind about a month ago. From the survivors I've only harvested a measly 4 courgettes so far, which is a fraction of what I'd picked this time last year.

Only one butternut squash plant has survived and so far it hasn't even flowered, so very unlikely to get any good sized squash (unless we have a really sunny autumn)

[muddled]

Sweet dumplings munched by slimies.
Hasta la pasta munched but grimly clinging to life....just.
One Japanese Black Kuso munched....NOOOOOOOOO!
Second Black Jap dug up and rushed back home to the greenhouse where it's getting big and bushy and hard enough to repel the bu99ers! (I am determined to grow at least one Black pumpkin)
2 Loufas munched...one holding on.
2 Butternuts growing but slowly and no flowers yet.

one custard white summer squash just started fruiting...slowly
ditto one 'eight ball' type
3 more custard whites and 2 more eight balls alive and healthy but barely growing
Yellow summer crookneck, one munched one growing slowly.

Potatoes have been fantastic this year though....it's all swings and roundabouts this gardening lark innit?