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Old 29-07-2010, 12:35 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default What a lousy year for veg!

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Martin Brown wrote:

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.


They aren't chlorotic, and I have done the latter, anyway :-(
A failure to fertilise could be right, so I shall plant out next
to my Little Gem, and see how long it is before it succumbs to
CMV ...


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.