Easton Walled Gardens joins race for giant marrow

Gorgeous Grantham garden competes for the prize

I thought I’d send you an update on the marrows in the gardens.

Our outdoor sown courgette took a week longer to germinate than our indoor sown, but didn’t have to cope with becoming re-established in the veg bed. It has grown larger and fruited before the indoor sown plants, all plants are now producing fruit, but the outdoor sown was first cropped about a week ago.

The attached pictures were taken on the 4th and 7th July with the outdoor sown plant in the foreground. It isn’t a perspective thing, it really is bigger.

Ollie Ryan-Moore (Head Gardener)

Easton Walled Gardens

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Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.

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