Climbing courgette ?? is there such a plant ??

smk77

As requested...

2 of the courgette plants can be seen on the first photo. The courgette you can see top right has come from the plant on the far plant...you can see it running along the wire...





This one is looking up at the plant. You can see at the top of the cane where is starts to grow horizontally. Next year I really need to get a decent frame - I wasn't expecting the plants to grow quite like this! The courgettes with the flowers are growing from the other plant (near one on the first pic). That plant has started its horizontal growth but need supporting now.





This one shows closer the horizontal growth. 2 courgette have been picked on the horizontal, 1 ready to be picked and another in 3 or 4 days.

Lotus-eater

That's really interesting smk77, how many fruits have you had off the whole thing?

smk77

Lotus-eater wrote: »

That's really interesting smk77, how many fruits have you had off the whole thing?

Just been out to count (in the pouring rain!) and there are 15 stubs in total on the 3 plants where the fruit has been picked off.

Each plant has 3 courgettes growing at the moment.

As I said in an earlier post, I'm in SE scotland. When the temperatures in the south were mid to late 20s in June / early July, we were struggling to get to 20c! We've not had a great amount of sun all summer either! And of course, the fruits will start appearing later here than further south. My tomatoes are still very green!

The most important thing though is that they're doing slightly better than those in my raised vegetable bed and will no doubt be producing fruit for longer.

Lotus-eater

smk77 wrote: »

Just been out to count (in the pouring rain!) and there are 15 stubs in total on the 3 plants where the fruit has been picked off.

:rotfl: Thanks for that, an estimation would have been fine

smk77 wrote: »

Each plant has 3 courgettes growing at the moment.

As I said in an earlier post, I'm in SE scotland. When the temperatures in the south were mid to late 20s in June / early July, we were struggling to get to 20c! We've not had a great amount of sun all summer either! And of course, the fruits will start appearing later here than further south. My tomatoes are still very green!

The most important thing though is that they're doing slightly better than those in my raised vegetable bed and will no doubt be producing fruit for longer.

Well they are in a greenhouse which will make them earlier and more productive.

I might try one next year, I thought I'd tried them this year, I got given some seeds, they weren't vining and eventually I worked out, I had Black Beauty, not Black Forest Numnuts

smk77

Lotus-eater wrote: »

:rotfl: Thanks for that, an estimation would have been fine

My freezer is full of chopped up courgettes from both the greenhouse and outdoor plants. I really wouldn't have liked to have guess.
:rotfl:

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Well they are in a greenhouse which will make them earlier and more productive.

I might try one next year, I thought I'd tried them this year, I got given some seeds, they weren't vining and eventually I worked out, I had Black Beauty, not Black Forest Numnuts

Definitely give on a go. Just think about how you can train it. You need to make sure that you keep tying it up as it grows as they'll flop and snap...

s4lvatore

Thnanks ever so much for this.

Was thinking of trialing square foot gardening next year so by looking at the photos I think these will need to go at the back as they will be my tallest plant and I think no more than one per square foot, hehe.

beckstrous

We have another type of climbing courgette, called a tromboncino. If you click this link you will be able to see the pic - it's on Facebook but the link is public. I cannot work out how to embed (the button doesn't work), sorry.


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6764489&l=0437e83a37&id=663585357

kiwimama

Tee Hee beckstrous those are really funny looking courgettes, made me snigger like a school girl! How do you not blush when eating them LOL or wince when slicing them off the vine!!! Well done tho looks to be a heathly plant and great crop