"Broadback" wrote in message
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I brought on a couple of courgettes in the garage, they got rather large
for indoors so I carefully hardened them over a week. However since
planting them out, with this miserable cold weather they have regressed.
While still alive only the very centre of the plants remain green. should I
cut my losses and buy replacements or might they survive?

They might survive, but you probably planted them too early. It's not too
late to sow another few. They are horribly tender.
I only sowed mine a couple of weeks ago and they are still in the
greenhouse.

I did very well with them last year. I could hardly keep up with the crop.

Looking at my diary for last year, I planted them out on 15th June on a heap
of chicken muck and they went crazy. I filled my freezer with them and my
neighbours started to avoid me. One or two got away and grew into marrows
so I left them on the doorstep of a friend with a recipe for stuffed
marrow..