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Martin Brown · 29-07-2010, 12:29 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 28/07/2010 23:57, wrote:
In ,usenet@c omps.org wrote:
wrote:
Is it because of the lack of rain, but very little has come from seed, and
as I am on a water meter, I have not watered as much as I used to.

Rainwater butt on the downpipes makes a useful addition.

I have to say, my courgettes seem to be doing particularly well this year.
And I know they're not vegetables, but my redcurrants and blackcurrants are
stunning.

Well, they definitely aren't animals or minerals :-)

My courgette is a disaster, YET AGAIN. I have avoided mosaic virus,
but it has something that causes blossom end rot before it is big
enough to make even a nibble.

Possible magnesium deficiency. Sprayign with Epsom salts and/or a
general fertiliser might help.

Mine are just about ready now and will soon become give away/swap glut
of courgettes that grow to truncheon size overnight when you are not
looking. Never had any trouble growing them outdoors even in N Yorks -
they are just slower to come into crop.

I think that I shall give up, as
with potatoes :-(

I have heavy clay soil and they grow like a pernicious weed. But for the
fact that the tubers are edible and tasty it would be a weed in the same
class as ground elder in my neck of the woods.

Regards,
Martin Brown