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Old 29-07-2010, 02:04 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Bob Hobden Bob Hobden is offline
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Default What a lousy year for veg!



Nick wrote
Bob Hobden 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. I think that I shall give up, as
with potatoes :-(

Sounds like lack of pollination.


Does that cause blossom end rot?

It causes the embryonic fruit to not grow much and rot, which IME it does
from the blossom end.

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Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK