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  • Sowing all things Cucurbit - 2020

    Cucurbits - members of the Gourd family - includes cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, courgettes, melons and more that I can't remember!!

    How many are you sowing & growing in 2020?

    Please share your progress.

    2019 thread at https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...9-a_98727.html
    Last edited by veggiechicken; 26-01-2020, 09:26 PM. Reason: MBE spotted my deliberate error ;)

  • #2
    Seeds in the box...
    Sweetmax Butternut, Thelma Sanders, High Sugar Mix (Acorn squashes), Uchiki Kuri and Blue Kuri, Autumn Crown and Flat White Boer - Oh! can't find my Queensland Blue seeds so may have to buy some more as they did well for me last year!
    Never sure if it more a squash or a courgette but Tromba d'Albenga of course
    Courgette Golden Griller, Partenon and Green Bush.
    Cucumbers La Diva, Socrates and Beth Alpha.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
      How many are you sowing & growing in 2019?
      Well, that was last year but I grew those Beth Alpha cucumbers you recommended and I did quite nicely out of them thank you. I got enough to make the cucumber pickle I wanted, plus extras. Which was great until Viki discovered she really likes my cucumber pickle.
      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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      • #4
        Top marks MBE for spotting my deliberate error.
        Beth Alpha are great and you'll have to grow lots more this year.

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        • #5
          Just the 4 this year.

          Courgette Tromboncino d'albenga
          Pumpkin small sugar
          squash scallop mix
          cucumber Beth alpha

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          • #6
            Quite a few this year:

            Courgette - Defender
            Cucumber - La Diva
            Winter Squash - Marina di Chioggia, Galeux D'Eysines, Jumbo Pink Banana and whatever seeds I bring back from Japan
            Melon - Collective Farm Woman
            Water melon - a small-fruited, yellow-fleshed variety the name of which I forget

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            • #7
              Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?
              I live in a part of the UK with very mild winters. Please take this into account before thinking "if he is sowing those now...."
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              • #8
                Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?
                I live in a part of the UK with very mild winters. Please take this into account before thinking "if he is sowing those now...."
                ∃

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                • #9
                  Cucumber - La Diva, Burpless - grew last year and worked well
                  Courgette - Soleil - I like yellow ones! First time with this one.
                  Squash - Trying for the first time: Uchiki Kuri, Brown Prince. Doing again, Scallop Mixed, and Turks Turban and Tombocino if I have room.
                  Pumpkin - Jack O Lantern
                  Melon - If have some seeds, might try some

                  Going to to more squash and less courgettes this year - just one courgette plant is enough for us, maybe one extra in case the first one fails.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by quanglewangle View Post
                    Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?
                    Only planned (and I already have the seeds). Far too early to sow even cucumbers and melons, much less the others.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by quanglewangle View Post
                      Ameno and small pumpkin - are your lists planned sowings or are they already on the go?
                      I’m also just at the planning stage ( story of my bl**dy life ) and already have seeds. Won’t be starting till March/ April.

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                      • #12
                        Cucumber - Crystal Apple - love this one
                        Cucumber baby - Beth Aplha - first time growing, (sown early all VCs fault if I go wrong)
                        Cucumber baby - Socrates f1
                        Cucumber - La Diva f1 - a firm favourite
                        Cucumber - Telephathy f1, back up for La Diva in case of failure

                        First time trying to grow...
                        Aubergine - early long purple
                        Courgette - zuchhini
                        Pumpkin - Jack o'lantern
                        Squash - butternut
                        Squash - Patty Pan

                        Undecided
                        Melons - finally cropped 3 single melons last year after trying for 3 years, maybe space be better for other stuff - have lots of seed left

                        Have seeds for Cucamelon and Cuc White Wonder, but both were very bitter in 2018, wondering if that was my fault for growing too close together in GH?
                        Last edited by Mamzie; 27-01-2020, 06:23 PM.
                        Anything is possible with the right attitude, a hammer
                        and a roll of duct tape.

                        Weeds have mastered the art of survival, if they are not in your way, let them feed bees

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                        • #13
                          I will beetle off to make my list, but meantime...has anyone grown Carosello cucumbers. I noticed there were some seeds in the curcubit vsp but not sure if that’s happening this year? At any rate, I’d be interested in any advice on whether is worth shelling out to buy seed for them. (Think they are called Carosello Mezzo Lungo Barese, or similar)
                          Last edited by muckdiva; 27-01-2020, 08:13 PM.
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                          And time just slips away
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                          • #14
                            IMO they need a warmer climate than we can give them, the vsp ones didn't do well for me, even in the greenhouse.
                            Though they may grow better in a large polytunnel where the conditions are more stable, than in a small greenhouse like mine.

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                            • #15
                              Thanks Thelma, good to know
                              All at once I hear your voice
                              And time just slips away
                              Bonnie Raitt

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