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