Oh gourd, or more precisely oh courgette. We tried growing a round courgette variety this year. As we know, no matter how diligent one is, underneath the elephantine leaves there always lurks a renegade or two of the small variety which one then discovers as a melon sized offering.
Same with the round type which matures into a gourd or pumpkin lookalike. Ours form a seasonal autumnal reminder of the changing season.
Despite a claimed outside temperature of 3 degrees, the windscreen needs to be cleared. 8th…
You know when it’s a good morning’s work when it takes the rest of the…
Or Courgette, a round variety which escaped the polytunnel and prospered in the donkey poo…
If there is food around. The photogenic one. The one which likes a head scratch.…