Squashed

It's the end for all the courgettes and squash plants. Powdery mildew won.

I think they might have been planted out quite late and it's been an extremely wet and cold year. We did get quite a good crop from the normal courgettes and a few Lebanese courgettes too.

Nothing whatsoever from the marrows, butternut squash and other courgette varieties.

We have one tiny pumpkin, just 3in big, which was growing at the end of 18ft of pumpkin plant. Somehow I couldn't see it turning orange in time for halloween, especially as the main part of the plant was dying.

Better luck next year! We like the courgettes so will definitely grow them next year. We probably won't bother with pumpkin or some of other things we planted - maybe one butternut squash, but we'll see.