Well, surprisingly after the incessant rain of last week, not only have I achieved my 10,000 steps around Clumber Park (so much easier when there are baby goslings & manic squirrels to look at, instead of pavements & dog poo), but the sun was STILL SHINING when we got home, so I have potted up my Guatemalan Blue Squash plants.
I've never grown these before. The seeds were a gift from a gardening friend, saved from her crop last year.
I sowed 4 seeds & all of them germinated, unlike this year's wretched courgettes, which have done nothing but snivel & mess about since the moment the first seeds went into the compost. Guatemalan Blue would appear to be a storable autumn/winter squash, & they apparently look like this!
Pretty aren't they? Am hoping I can raise at least a couple to try out stuffed or roasted this autumn, & if they come true, I'll be sure to save some seed to pass on to other gardening friends - I don't think I know any gardeners who don't love to swap things. I think our favourite horticultural word is 'free!'
Till tomorrow,
C x
Those squash look fun! I'll be interested to see how you do with them. I'm trying some Golden Apple squash this year but only 2 out of 10 seeds germinated and the plants are sickly little things. I only got 2 round courgettes to germinate too and they're also faffing about and not growing much. The bog-standard yellow courgettes I sowed three weeks later have way overtaken them.
ReplyDeleteI never usually have problems with courgette germination, but this year, only half my first sowing germinated. I bought a new packet of seed & sowed 6 more. None of those germinated at all! Most odd as did everything the same as usual.
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