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dancing_star wrote: »

Crikey, I hope you like courgettes and you have a large family!


I had two courgette plants last year. I live alone.


One week I had eight of the wretched things to eat.



I made courgette chutney (twice), pickled a load of them, and had courgette frittata most days for lunch.


You'll probably be able to hold a market stall!

I do love them, but my kids won't eat them :rotfl: I'm not convinced they'll continue growing (I have even managed to kill cacti) but fingers crossed....I will just keep a couple if they do succeed.

Some lovely tips and links, thanks :) What a nice thread this is

unrecordings

I've never really managed to have a courgette glut - despite my best efforts. Outside the slugs had them, in the greenhouse they just went yellow & rotted. I tried hanging baskets, but also had to pick them small before they went yellow

dancing_star

I found a good load of well rotted farmyard manure brought on my courgette glut a treat.

zafiro1984

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

Not quite sure why but I have never had success with spring onions.

I'm OK with spring onions but I'm having trouble with Leeks. It was exactly the same last year - I fancied Oarsman as they are supposed to have a long white shank but I couldn't get them to germinate and its the same this year

Beautiful warm evening here its almost like summer.

Sowed carrots today, first of the season and set up a watering system using leaky hose (which I've had for years) for the early potatoes. Hopefully it will cut down on my time.
Potted on loads of geraniums all grown from seed, plus begonias, sweet peas and lupins

I reckon I've about a month left in which to catch up with all my jobs I didn't do over the winter - going to be busy

unrecordings

Catch up day here too, back on the higher dose of steroids (yay) and I've half an apple tree to chip before I can get back to repotting, then messing around with my weather station - then chemo tomorrow which may or may not put me out of whack for a couple of days

zafiro1984

unrecordings wrote: »

chemo tomorrow which may or may not put me out of whack for a couple of days

thinking of you

Karmacat

unrecordings wrote: »

chemo tomorrow which may or may not put me out of whack for a couple of days

zafiro1984 wrote: »

thinking of you

Me too - not only for your chemo, but the way you work so hard in the garden in spite of it. Respect, as they say

unrecordings

Karmacat wrote: »

Me too - not only for your chemo, but the way you work so hard in the garden in spite of it. Respect, as they say

Thanks both, it's fairly light chemo, so I'm more in danger from my steroid induced snacking than anything else. I need something to burn off those yellow sticker pain au chocolat - so it's either something useful like gardening or some 'normal' exercise, and I run like a penguin in clogs

Suffolk_lass

unrecordings wrote: »

Thanks both, it's fairly light chemo, so I'm more in danger from my steroid induced snacking than anything else. I need something to burn off those yellow sticker pain au chocolat - so it's either something useful like gardening or some 'normal' exercise, and I run like a penguin in clogs

:rotfl::D close, but no cigar

unrecordings

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

:rotfl::D close, but no cigar

good job I didn't opt for the lycra joke instead