TheScullster writes

A few small courgettes have formed behind flowers, but then disappeared.
Are they being snaffled by some local sneak thief or is there something that
needs to be done to make these "set"?

You could aid pollination by taking a male flower (no courgette behind
it) and inserting it into the female flower. Shouldn't need to, though.
Possibly air is too dry?

Why do tomatoes do so much better in grow bags? I have planted some in open
ground, but with at least a 50% local addition of seed compost.
So I was
expecting a similar result to the grow bags - but no, much slower and less
convincing foliar growth.

Seed compost has very little in the way of food in it (seedlings don't
need much).


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Kay