Author Topic: Courgette fruit not growing (Read 28538 times)

Fleecewife · « **Reply #30 on:** August 07, 2010, 08:59:45 pm »

<< If any more male show I remove them as soon as I can see they are male>>

Why

They need the male flowers to pollinate the female ones, not like cucumbers where you need to pick off the male flowers.

Mickyork · « **Reply #31 on:** August 08, 2010, 04:03:32 pm »

They obviously don't need them as they are doing real well

Mickyork · « **Reply #32 on:** August 08, 2010, 05:39:00 pm »

And that was an observation. Not a dig in any way

Mo · « **Reply #33 on:** August 09, 2010, 07:48:02 am »

Male flowers.
If your courgettes are stressed, either from being planted to close together, or from poor quality soil you will get a predominance of male flowers.

We lost our first sowing of courgettes to the cold snap but the second sowings are going daft.
We always leave a few later in the season to grow into marrows.

Oh! And you can eat the flowers. Lovely dipped in batter and deep fried, and there are recipes out there for stuffing the flowers.

Mickyork · « **Reply #34 on:** August 10, 2010, 09:18:19 pm »

I love the flowers battered. I was in Italy the first time I had them. They was collected from the hedgerow where they looked like they grew wild.
Where I stayed they would stuff them with chopped prawns & then batter them.

They were amazing.