Back in the spring 🌱🌱🌱 planted lots of seeds - mostly tomatoes - in little pots and kept them in the Futility Room on a sunny sill. I kept them moist, spoke encouragingly when I passed, and waited for little green shoots.🌱🌱🌱 Nothing happened .
After a couple of months I decided I'd done something wrong. I tipped all the compost into a nearby bowl, then used it to top up the dip in the soil in Row 10 of the raised bed [depleted after I'd harvested all the radishes] And I acquired replacement tomato plants 🍅🍅🍅from a couple of neighbours which went into the greenhouse.
And now the end of Row 10 is blessed with four large tomato plants, laden with cherry tomatoes which are slowly ripening. 🍅🍅🍅
But mysteriously, in Row 9 and also a pot in the back garden I have two large "volunteer" plants.🌱🌱 Their leaves are as big as my handspan. I do not think they are weeds, but as yet have neither flowers nor fruit of any kind.
Does anyone recognize what these are?
They look like they ought to produce courgettes or squashes or something. Or are they just enthusiastic weeds? Advice please. Thankyou!!
And a huge thank you to everyone who shared such lovely fishy memories yesterday. Our parents and grandparents seem to have eaten much more shellfish [from British waters] than we do now. Perhaps it was affected by wartime rationing...Sue, you are our current expert on WW2 food , are you into cockles and mussels on your new regime? 
Courgettes I reckon although probably too late now for fruit
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Deleteyoure going to be the proud owner of cucumbers or squash ...did the same thing tossed the used unsprouted pots onto the garden and now have random beetroot popping up allover
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DeleteDefinitely some sort of squash. A wait and see plant!
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DeleteYour volunteer plants look very much like some type of squash, although I don't know what types. Maybe let them grow and see what happens?
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DeleteThe leaves look like some type of courgette or pumpkin, but until they flower you won't know for sure ! Hope this helps !
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DeleteI'd say courgettes were the mystery plant. Take ages to flower then vegetise (that might be a new word I just invented!?).Cucomelons are very similar too.
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ReplyDeleteAgree wih all, probably a courgette, but a bit late for it to do anything now. Tomatoes are very good at suddenly appearing when you least expect them. Every year I find tiny seedling in the greenhouse, from last year's plants!
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DeleteI agree with everyone else, definitely courgette plants. We have them coming out of our ears and OH missed one, so it became a marrow and ended up in soup! Gill Xx
ReplyDeleteOh what a shame there are no courgettes...the leaves are green and luscious!!
DeleteIs there anywhere like a cold frame where you could keep the pot when the cold weather comes, to try to encourage some fruit?
ReplyDeleteYes it could go in the mini greenhouse
DeleteThe leaves do look like courgette and pumpkin. There can be a problem with cross pollinated, self-seeded courgettes. The fruit can be toxic, tasting very bitter and causing painful stomach cramps.
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DeleteI've just looked it up, it's called Toxic Squash Syndrome. Perhaps it's a good thing I have no fruit, just leaves
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