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Bob Hobden · 29-07-2010, 02:04 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

29-07-2010, 02:57 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

Martin Brown wrote:
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.

There are very few bits of my allotment which don't have stray tatties
growing on them at this time of year ...
Or, in fact, the garden.

[email protected] · 29-07-2010, 04:25 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In article ,
kay wrote:
In article ,
Bob Hobden wrote:-

Sounds like lack of pollination.-

Does that cause blossom end rot?

It causes them to start rotting from the blossom end before they've
grown much. If yours get big before rotting, then it won't be lack of
pollination.

This is the first time that I have grown only one, and the first
time indoors! I live and learn.

For me, it's been a really bad year for broad beans - no pollination.
OK for French and Runner, and sugar snap peas.

My broad were OK, though not brilliant. I have started getting
French now that I am watering frequently, but runner are still
useless, and the peas haven't even grown properly (but I am now
getting a few). I have had to water my strawberries just to keep
the plants alive!

My sandy soil has had perhaps 1/4" in over 2 months :-(

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Janet · 29-07-2010, 05:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In article ,
says...

In article , wrote:
alan.holmes 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.

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

Just to cheer you up, our courgettes and potatoes have been fantastic
this year, despite a very cool dry start. Great year for shallotts
basil, parsley and pick-and come-again salad too. On the downside I
don't think the outside tomatoes are ever going to set fruit though they
are tall, healthy and have been in flower for weeks.

Janet

kay · 29-07-2010, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by

I
But every
time I grow courgettes outside, I get 2-3 and they they get mosaic
virus so badly they have to be destroyed. This was an attempt to
grow them inside, to avoid that.

If you're growing them inside, you could try a parthenogenetic variety.

29-07-2010, 11:04 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

Janet wrote:
Just to cheer you up, our courgettes and potatoes have been fantastic
this year, despite a very cool dry start. Great year for shallotts
basil, parsley and pick-and come-again salad too. On the downside I

I tried salad this year to feed to the chickens, but it all just goes to
seed on me. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, other than perhaps not watering
it enough

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