Right now in the greenhouse I have some winter squash ripening on the vine. It’s a bit of a jungle in there as the vines of the squash and those of the various tomato plants are all wrapped round the greenhouse frame and there’s a bumper crop of tomatoes coming along nicely too. Both crops should be ready to pick in the weeks to come. <br />This is the first time I’ve grown squash successfully, and I really wish, with Halloween coming up, I’d tried the more popular squash, the traditional pumpkin, again this year. Last time I tried to grow pumpkins in the ground outdoors, but after they reached flowering stage the slugs devoured them. This time I grew the green kabocha squash from seed in a large window box type planter and just made sure it was kept well watered and fed with seaweed fertiliser. Under the protection of the greenhouse it has thrived and taken over the space. The squashes are ready to harvest when the stem connecting it to the rest of the plant starts to wither and dry up.
