It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during the day the garden does not get that much sun. This means things will now be wet until the spring time and so I wonder how much more we will get out of the square foot garden [...]
Posts Tagged ‘courgette’
19 Jul
Blackfly on the courgettes
I was pleased to see loads of new flowers appearing on the courgettes, but less so of all the blackfly all over it. A closer look at other plants and it seems like a huge invasion of these things has hit the garden! I notice ants running up and down the beans but they have [...]
19 Jul
A couple of days of wind and rain
After a good month of blue skies, hot weather and sun sun sun… we had two or three days of rain and wind. The result is a sudden growth on everything and a bit of wind damage. The sweetcorn shows no signs of any corn inside, although I’m not fully sure when they are meant [...]
13 Jul
Going to Seed?
We have had a very hot July so far which has meant watering first thing in the morning and in the early evening too which has given steady growth on all plants. Over the weekend we were away so I gave extra water on the Friday and hoped all would be ok. I wonder if [...]
9 Jun
Sweetcorn come out for the sun
It is planned to have all these planted out this weekend and so all this week I have been getting them ready for it by putting them out for the day. We have sweetcorn, a mixture of normal and mini ones, plus the pumpkins and courgettes. I think it is four sweetcorn plants to a [...]
31 May
Seedlings in the Utility Room
From our cookery book for pumpkin tart we had four seeds to make a start (long term cooking!) One seedling rotted due to over watering while another got knocked off the shelf by a bird (just don’t ask) which leaves two left. Both doing well in the utility room. Sweetcorn is something I tried growing [...]
6 Oct
Courgette Goo
I talked about making a chocolate cake with courgette as one of the ingredients back at sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/chocolate-courgettes/ I finally took the plunge and had a go. Here we have the courgette part of it, the rest involved a lot of flour and cocoa powder. The end result was mixed. It made a nice cake that [...]
5 Oct
Monster Courgettes
I like courgettes but sometime you have just a bit too much. It seems that the courgette plant has grown legs and decided to move from the flower bed and take up residence on the patio instead. It is then slowly moving towards the house at which point I only hope we have locked the [...]
26 Jul
Chocolate Courgettes
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now it is certainly courgette time as we have millions of them of various sizes. So many, and this is just from two plants, that I am now pondering about using some in this recipe for chocolate courgette [...]
13 Jun
Courgette Flowers
My belief that courgettes must be one of the easiest plants to grow continues (courgettes and leeks remain my two favorite). Our two plants are now showing flowers and multiple possible courgettes are starting to appear. Just fingers crossed that the cat doesn’t dig them all up!
