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Janet · 11-05-2012, 12:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In article ,
says...

If you want a near-guaranteed
success, get Green Bush. The others all sound so much more exciting, but I
have found that they are very hit and miss, but the green bush ones will just
keep going until first frost.

I agree. Yellow ones are particularly mean with their fruit.

Cut them small and they will just keep coming.
(watch out for accidentally missing one and it grows into a giant, which
will slow down production of new ones)

Have you done that thing with your boys, let them scratch their name
with a nail on a small one, then watch it grow into a huge personalised
marrow?

The main veggie beds show no sign of slugs or snails as there is a huge
expanse of bare soil around them so nowhere to hide.
It would be a brave slug or snail that attempted the journey to my lettuces
(famous last words)

*says nothing*

They are just forming up into legions before they set out on the route
march. Like antelopes travelling in huge herds across the plains, so that
most of them escape the lion attacks.

Janet.