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Cucumber (1 plant )12
courgettes (5 plants +1 self seeded) 1 cake, several meals, 9 in the fridge and 6 half marrows.

My courgette plants have finally started to 'take off' but the squash are a bit of a washout.

Picked my first courgette today, couldn't tell you what one

Actually checking my list it is All green bush

My 2021 harvest

Cucumbers 4 plants
3. Beth Alpha...20+4+24
1. Masterpiece..1

Courgettes 6 plants in all
1. Romanesco...5+1=6
2. All green bush...4+1=5
2. Black Beauty.....17+3=20
1. Tondo di Piacemaza..1+1=2

One Squash
Patisson Gagat..one's growing

Cucumber Beth alpha (2 plants) = 15
Courgette tromboncino (1 plant) = 1
Courgette zucchini (2 plants) = 3
Courgette black beauty dark fog (1 plant) = 2
Squash vegetable spaghetti (1 plant) =

Picked to date:-
Cucumber - Beth Alpha (7 plants) - = 5
Courgette (? plants)- 13 + 2 = 15

Does anybody grow gherkins ?, my wife bought seeds and I grew some, getting these monsters. No idea what to do with them. Should they get to this size and turn yellow or have I left them on the plant to long ?

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You should have picked them green. Once they turn yellow they're setting seed.

Re gherkins, the Americans sweet pickle them with dill. I remember being amazed in the 60s as a child going to a corner store in Maine and finding a huge barrel of pickled gherkins (almost as big as me) for customers to PYO, also facinated by the ice machine