Bruno the ghost rider is turning, gradually. Tinges of orange starting to appear.
Is a Bonny beast. At 4 and a half pound, slightly smaller than expected. But still good! Has four weeks before All Hallows’ eve, before mama curries it.
Category Archives: Squashes
courgette co^pse
Most of the summer squashes have now ceased fruiting, and do nothing but sulk. These were chopped down and taken up today, with the dismembered components but into a raised bed. This was a bed, that this year had contained king edwards potatos. These were grown in horse poop, but the bed had sunk; with the poop decaying. It was very shallow, so in need of topping up. With the daleks quite full, the remnants of the squashes were piled into the bed. Quite bulky at the moment, lots of green material. This, with the leaves should decay down into some growing medium. There is plenty of time over the winter before next years growing season.
Oh, sweetie #3
These are the fruits of the sweet dumpling vine. Seeds that were given away free by http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/ some time ago; and were yet another squash experiment. A success, as they have never been grown before. Have moved from being a beautiful puce green, to pale cream and mottled. Exactly what it looked like on the seed packet.
The picture is deceptive as regards as size goes. They aren’t tiny, like the jack be little. But a nice handful, and very robust.
Bruno 2013
This years Bruno the Ghostrider. A little smaller than perhaps I would have thought at this time of the year. Also, smaller than the previous version of Bruno. Perhaps he needs feeding.
The vine is yet to die off, just a bit weather beaten.
Birmingham butternut
I have one! After Gladys, the butternut that wasn’t; we have a cobnut.
This is a cobnut squash, and it is growing up rather than out. I did this purely because I didn’t want slimers eat them. I did this with Gladys too; with less success.
I counted about 8 fruits, at varying stages of development. The one above; I very nearly missed. I only went into the foliage to double check.
A lovely surprise; as this is a squash that has been largely ignored. Didn’t think anything had been pollinated.
Oh, sweetie
On the turn. The sweet dumpling is starting to become mottled.
The of thsse
Three of these beauties have kept growing. Lovely to see how they have developed.
Triffic triffid
The cobnut, is all very leafy and large. And having lots of babies.
One, I’ve never grown a cobnut. Gladys was close. Two, never had that many babies. Counted at least four. The concern here is that if any of the babies are actually fertilised. Not sure if they are, flowers; both girls and boys are open. The girl ones, only just. The boy ones have no pollen in them, as I found out when looking into one.
Squashed together
This a baby sweet dumpling. The seeds came from GYO mag, and were freebies. Have never grown them before, well not with any success last year. At the moment, there are two babies that look reasonably well. Rather looking forward to seeing them develop.
If you squint hard enough, you will see two yellow smudge like squashes. These would be jack be little pumpkins. One is distinctly larger than the other; but the vine is motoring along quite nicely. In comparison, the hooligan vine is really quite small and developmentally delayed. It is only just starting to sprawl. All of these squashes are being grown up rather than out.
This here beast is a cobnut. A very leafy cobnut. Again, being grown up; as slimers tend to start munching if left to sprawl across the ground. There is a single solitary boy flower that is bright and blooming. I have yet to see any girl flowers. Harks back a little to the butternut squash from a few years ago. This is not as big, comparatively speaking. Would be interesting to see if this actually crops. Given how late it is in the season now; I’m not entirely sure that it will.
Yours in anticipation,
Horticultural Hobbit
Masard and his mystery pumpkins #2
Progress review of Masards experiments. Things are going well. Spotted about four baby fruits.
Alas, poor Yorick
One that was hidden away under foliage and hanging over a bed.
horticultural 'obbit 