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Courgette Catastrophe
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:40:58 +0100, "andrewpreece"
wrote: My first attempt at growing courgettes ( in the greenhouse ) is going badly wrong. There is a little bit of white mould on the leaves, though nothing too serious, but every time a courgette gets going, the flower end goes yellow, then brown and soft, then rot proceeds back towards the base, the courgette eventually ending up as a soggy rotten blob covered in grey mould. Is there an effective cure? Two points gleaned from GQT. 1. Don't wet the leaves or flowers when watering as this causes the mould. Water straight to the soil. 2. According to Bob Flowerdew you can take cuttings of the tips of shoots. They will fruit more quickly than new plants would. It might not be too late to try that now and get some plants to put outside. I've not tried it. Not sure if the advice was to take cuttings in the normal way or to layer them on the ground. Pam in Bristol |
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