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Old 24-05-2013, 11:21 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Courgettes poorly
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I brought on a couple of courgettes in the garage, they got rather large
for indoors so I carefully hardened them over a week. However since
planting them out, with this miserable cold weather they have regressed.
While still alive only the very centre of the plants remain green.
should I cut my losses and buy replacements or might they survive?
As an aside the seeds are taking a lot longer this year to germinate, I
suspect the plants have got more sense than us and are staying tucked up!

I think I would have hardened them off for longer, at
least a week outside during the day and in at night,
then similar time frame leaving them out at night,
unless very cold night forecast.

I gave up on courgette seed this year. Planted six
seeds over a month ago indoors (cold bedroom), nothing
germinated, so I bought some last weekend at the Royal
Welsh Spring Fair.

Slugs round here love courgettes, lost them all last
year. This year, they are surrounded by slug pellets,
some of which is under cover, so I'm hoping for
success!

I also have had very slow/poor germination of seeds in
general this year, particularly those left over from
last year. I keep them in the garage, which is an
integral part of the house so never really gets the
frost in. In fact the dahlia's are stored there and
they seem to be shooting well now. I do wonder if it
was the combination of cold and damp (wet car) over
the winter that got the seeds.

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales
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