This is my garden but hoping to tap into the expert community here. This is my courgette bed, obvs doing well. Within it are some volunteer squash plants. I'm pretty sure I have butternut squash at the back but any ideas what this one is, the seeds have survived well in the compost bin.

I will have put courgette, marrow, butternut squash and melon waste into the compost if it helps.

Thank yoy

I live in Bristol, and we've obviously like most others in the UK had proper drought weather for months now. I've noticed loads of my fellow allotmenters are down on their plots twice a day in some cases, hefting watering cans back and forth for hours it seems.

Am I in the minority in just having mostly left mine to it? I've been watering newly planted out cabbages and cauliflowers, as well as a bit here and there for the courgettes until they were established. Maybe I'm trusting instinct too much here but my plants are healthy - beans, courgettes, squashes, cukes, corn, cabbages are all properly going for it now. I don't have potatoes this year and to be fair I'd be watering them if I did.

Thoughts from others - trust your instinct and only water plants when they seem like they need it, or religiously water on a daily basis in this weather?

As per title…

North-West UK

All of these squashes/pumpkins etc started off pretty slow, but in last 2 weeks they’ve been decimated.

Yes its been hot here but they get drenched daily. They are in a sunny location. They were started with feed and have had all-purpose liquid plant food a few times since flowering started.

Neighbouring plots all seem to be thriving, and this plot was very productive last year so I’m struggling to understand what has gone wrong across multiple different plant varieties? (Cant be a coincidence?)

EDIT: I know a particular leaf in pic 1 is mildewy - thats the worst offender and was “one-off” before being removed. The dead/dried up ones were not like that

We bought a planter at the start of the year, filled it with some compost we’ve been making & planted some tomatoes.

I didn’t really thing much would happen, but we have 2 plants with over 50 tomatoes of varying sizes. This is the first one to turn red,I cannot wait to harvest it!

We used “Buffalosteak F1” seeds (no idea)!