On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 05:52:47 GMT, AndWhyNot
wrote:

~On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:21:28 +0100, (sw) wrote:
~
~Last year I grew a 'normal' green courgette (no variety named on the
~label) bought as a seedling from a garden centre. It produced just about
~enough courgettes for our needs. This year I tried a yellow one (again,
~no name on the label) on the grounds that they had no green ones, and a
~yellow one might be pretty. It is, but it's producing very few
~courgettes -- lots of flowers, most on long stalks (male?) and
~relatively few flowers on short stalks that thicken to form courgettes.
~It seems happy enough in itself, lots of dark green leaves heading out
~towards the path and the big, wide world, just isn't producing many
~courgettes. Do yellow ones normally produce fewer fruit, or have I been
~unlucky?
~
~regards
~sarah
~
~I have the same problem as well with 3 plants in a grow bag
~.......... 2 green outsiders with a yellow in the middle.
~
~Green fine and dandy .......... yellow, slow, small, not really
~interested. It is as if they know they will be sliced in the frying
~pand along with some butter and garlic .......... Yum !!
~
~
I grow Gold Rush F1 and have the opposite problem - it's the fastest
growing courgette variety I have (and I have about 8...) - so far I've
had three off one bush, with most of the others still not up to speed.
The only ones looking like they can keep up so far are the spherical
de Nice a fruit Rond.

There is another older yellow variety which is I believe much less
prolific - Golden Zucchini. It is not F1 though and so you can save
seed if you know it's been pollinated by its own males. So the seed is
a lot cheaper and may have been used for the generic pots.

There's also a new T&M new one called Jemmer F1 which is apparently
earlier than Gold Rush. I shall have to try it next year.

(I have learned a singular lesson on generic pots this year - I bought
a 99p cucumber which was labelled 'all-female' without a variety. Darn
thing has got powdery mildew. Next year I go back to getting a more
expensive named but mildew-resistant variety!)


--
jane

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