The cucurbits family includes the various cucumbers that are available as well as courgettes and pumpkins and the non edible ornamental gourds. They are certainly tender plants that would definitely suffer if they were exposed to a degree of frost. However, if you have some horticultural fleece close to hand, you should be able to harvest some lovely ripe fruit from the end of June onwards.
Growing Parsnips
25th July 2007 I am often asked what is the best method of growing both long carrots and parsnips for the show