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<\/a>Today’s courgettes<\/p><\/div>\n
The plants still have more courgettes coming.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The courgette plant is still producing<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>The other courgette plant<\/p><\/div>\n
I would definitely go for the more compact plants again next year. As I suspected the self seeded courgette plant didn’t produce. There are plenty of flowers forming but the courgettes are very small, butternut squash shaped and rotting away while still tiny.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The self seeded plant with it’s tiny, rotting, courgettes<\/p><\/div>\n
I think perhaps that because it has self seeded it has reverted back to an earlier type of plant. The plant is long and rambling and full of buds but I can tell that they won’t get beyond this stage.<\/p>\n
It was an experiment to leave the plant in and see what it produced and as the veg plot is emptying it fills some space which helps to keep the cats off.<\/p>\n
Once the two producing courgette plants are finished we will empty the plot, dig it over and then fill it with twigs for the winter to keep the cats off. For now the spent plants remain in place to keep it from being bare even though it is rather less than tidy.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see how long the courgette plants keep producing. I will sort of miss them when they are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is, without doubt, our best year ever for courgettes. Our two plants have produced a continued abundance of courgettes and the freezer is full of various courgette dishes while I am still devising ways of using fresh ones several … Continue reading