Pumpkin and courgettes- do you plant in same bed?

[Maggiethecat]

read somewhere that they shouldn’t be planted together as they compete for the same nutrients.

has anyone planted them together and were there any issues?

Yes, always together. I have 4 beds so can roatate the veg I plant each year.

(They don't really care where they go, it's others that are more important to rotate really, but it's easiest to rotate the whole thing)

https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/crop-rotation

I do. Along with corn and sunflowers. It’s a big bed.

Ok, I’ll bung them together.

@Youthinkyoureuniqueyourejustastatistic - was thinking of beans and sweetcorn too as the 3 are supposed to work well together. Not sure about the sweetcorn though as it’s an exposed, windy plot.

Depends on the soil, size of bed, sunlight, water....etc.

Yep, I always do. Ideally you'd dig in a bag of manure per plant, but probably do about half a bag. It's a bit early to be putting them in the ground though.

Someone’s raised question on Veg patch thread about whether too early.

the plants are about 5 weeks and look ready to be planted out

It's still quite cold at night though? IME if I plant this early, they just sit there sulking for a few weeks, and you get more losses.

It depends on where you live.

I planted courgettes and butternut squash in the same bed once,
I got a very interesting variety of squashes due to cross pollination.
No actual courgettes or butternut squash though.

You mean from saved seed the next year?

I grew them from ordinary seeds, separately. (I am no gardener, just followed the instructions on the packets), then when the seedlings were ready to go out, I planted the courgettes in one row and the squash in the next row. All flowered and looked very healthy.
Then when the fruits started growing, they were all different shapes and sizes and colours. Mostly round, green striped squashes, but firm and orange inside.
Nothing that looked like a courgette or a butternut squash. Same on all the plants.

I have no idea what happened. Thinking about it I am not even sure cross pollination is the right word. It was really strange.

They sound like butternut squash? They can be quite greenish outside, and they're not always the classic pear shape you see in supermarkets. Either that, or you got sold the wrong seeds. It wouldn't have anything to do with the proximity of plants - cross-pollination would only come into play if you'd saved the seeds and planted them next year (and often, those seeds end up sterile crosses anyway).

Yes, what you say makes complete sense. If I had thought back to my biology lessons I would have worked that out.
It was really strange though because they were perfectly round, green/stripy and orange inside.
As I said though, I am a complete amateur and I was expecting something that looked like a butternut squash.
I haven't planted any this year because I have been ill, but maybe next year I will try again.

It is weird, for sure.

Because I can imagine butternut seeds might produce a green, striped, round-ish fruit. But why would courgettes do that?! I think it must have been mis-labelled seed.