Courgette time
Summer must be here, despite the rotten weather, because the courgettes have started growing like crazy and producing lots of courgettes. I wish I could say the same for the winter squash but hey, there is still time. I have grown four types this year: two long green and one yellow round and one yellow long type. Interestingly the yellow long is not cropping as well as the others but it is a lovely foliage plant with golden foliage (above). The front of the beds are lined with a red, frilly lettuce and edged with haloragis ‘Wellington Bronze’. There were some mimulus too but the hot, dry weather a month or so ago was too much for them to bear and they either died or were swamped by the haloragis. The green plats dotted around are self-sown wonderberries – I won’t bother with those again for a few years.
I like yellow courgettes and I think they have a finer texture though these round ones need picking before they get too big. Keeping up with courgettes is always a problem! It is really important to pick them when they are small so you do not end up with some big ones. Then you end up having a massive crop of ‘almost marrows’ that are not as tasty as small courgettes and make eating courgettes a bit of a trial.
I really wanted to get a decent crop of peas this year and the mangetout at the back of the bed, in three colours, have done a decent job this year, with some colour from antirrhinums.
I like the idea of colour from white antirrhinums
Thank you! In theory they would not show up much against the pea flowers but the peas have purple flowers. Antirrhinums are really useful for cutting and I tend to prefer the tall kinds. The dwarfs don’t flower for as long.