What the dickens us going on with my courgettes?

[FreezerBird]

They're TINY. The plants themselves - started off in pots and planted out. Usually they romp off all over the place and end up gigantic.

Not this year. They've barely grown bigger than when I planted them out, but this week have decided to flower.

I don't have a note of when I planted them but if anything possibly on the late side. Certainly I've been vaguely thinking they're a bit small but will catch up, but I am surprised to see the flowers.

Our courgette plants are huge and now covered in flowers so fingers crossed.

DEFINITELY planted too much in greenhouse!!!!

Garlic is very good so far but my courgettes have only in the last few weeks decidedtogrow,only3 and all ayelliw climbing variety.
My french been have barely grown since I planted them our early June but are flowering and I have had two beans.
Tomatoes ,first ones just pollinated so not sure if they'll make ripe/big enough fruit..
Radishes and rochet has been decimated by flea beetle the last get days,the reddish may be ok but the rocket needs pulling out as notedible.
Herbs are doing fantastically but my succession down lettuce is bolting with this stop start weather .
I have more mildew and black fly and myepoers and chillis I have upon.
But I cannot out today and enjoy what has worked.

I've absolutely no idea op, but had to say how much I enjoyed the thread title!

Thank you! "What the dickens" is a favourite phrase, but hard to carry off in speech.

In courgette news, the flowers have fallen off but I think the leaves have put on a bit of growth.

First corvette growing today rather than the earlier ones which rotted and fell off. Also, first cherry tomatoes at last turning orange and red, first sized tomatoes reluctantly doing the same, a decent cucumber, green beans, purple dwarf beans appears overnight and broad beans aplenty!! About bloody time Mother Nature....

My courgettes are doing marvellously but I have a similar problem with squash. Small stunted plants. Huge pumpkins though!!

Lots of ripe toms, cucumbers, french & runner beans, blueberries.

Corn is well in its way.

Strawberries useless this year.

Have got five cucumbers in the fridge and am busily looking up recipes.

butternut squash produced a female flower but no male flower around to pollinate it. Now courgettes are going the same way - each plant has half a dozen female flowers but none has a male flower for pollinating. Just have to hope someone has a courgette within bee-distance.

Peas, french, runner and broad beans all doing well. Radishes dismal but not as dismal as last year. Tomatoes doing splendidly.

On the downside, we're coming to the end of strawberries, raspberries and loganberries and I have hardly any frozen. We've been making pig of ourselves.

The soil would have been drier than usual when they were planted. They will have needed way more watering than you expected. A whole watering can into parched ground can get soaked right up with the plant barely seeing a teaspoonful.

Hot Easter followed by extended cold snap means our tomatoes and other plants in the greenhouse are way behind. Luckily our next door neighbour a green fingered lady is having exactly the same problem. Mother nature has thrown us a curved ball this year.