Ingredients
Plant in a meter square box
Seeds for
– Squash
– Sweet Corn – Ready when you poke a kernel and it leaks Sugar starts to turn to starch immediately, so eat now
– Beans – Haricot vert – young beans
Instructions Beans put nitrogen into the soil
Corn provides a place for the beans to climb
Squash leaves help soil retain the moisture
Special Steps Squash options:
– marrow is a striped summer squash
– zucchini
– courgette
– summer squash
– sunset squash stays small
– pumpkins (ready in October) mildew on leaves is OK
– Ghost pumpkin – skin is white, green inside, tough skin, keeps long
Variations Plant in April, and harvest through October
Plant seeds along side of soil covered with burlap sack (hessian sack)
When leaf dries out, and melon sounds hollow, it is ready to eat
Notes Courgette is a small summer squash – the leaves are edible
Firm and fresh blossoms that are only slightly open are cooked to be eaten, with pistils removed from female flowers, and stamens removed from male flowers.
