Courgettes or Cucumbers?
Orchid Lady
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in Fruit & veg
Ok, muppet me has lost the labels, I think this is courgette but please can someone confirm for me.
Hopefully the cucumbers are the ones I've put in the GH today, they have more jagged type leaves?
Thank you from Tracey the Muppet 
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http://www.rivercottage.net/users/LittleFoxley/blog/ten-top-courgette-recipes/
I think they are courgettes, this pic form River Cottage looks the same. All my books (3!) only show them fully grown
Courgette and cucumber seedlings look pretty similar in my experience - they both get the jagged leaves after the seed leaves.
I won't laugh Tracey, I wouldn't have a clue.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Oh....so it's not just me then?? Nightmare! Now I don't know which ones should be in the GH and which ones I'm hard fine off for outside!
That brings me to another questions, Dove mentioned 'seed leaves' so when it says 'when 2 true leaves are formed' does that mean 2 of the jagged leaves and not the round ones?
Yes
I think there'll be a difference by the time the jagged ones come round, But not much. I won't know the difference
. Veggie growers will 
In the sticks near Peterborough
Having done this in the past I now use different colour pots ie Cu in green, courgettes in brown, squash in black- you can write on green and brown pots too. Same system for all the different tomatoes...saves the poor old brain.
There's no real way of telling until they are quite large plants, unfortunately. Kudos to anyone who can identify which of these are squash (4 types), cucumber (1 type), courgettes (1 type) & pumpkins (1 type) The pots are labelled so I can give answers to anyone who wants to give it a go!
The poor old brain. every year I have several plants that seem to have escaped the labelling process. This year it's 3 lots of digitalis from last year and only one labelled.
Good idea you have there Lottie but I'll have to think of something else, too many different things. I must be more efficient
In the sticks near Peterborough