On 14/08/2020 16:53, David wrote:
I am having limited success growing fertilised courgettes.
Some get fertilised, but most not.

At the moment I have some male flowers and some female flowers but all the
flowers appear to be closed.
If they are closed all day, how do the insects fertilise them?

Baffled as usual


Dave R


When I was young we used to pick the male flower, remoe the pewtals and
insert it into the middle of the female flower.