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Hi there everyone. Hoping someone can help me with a problem with my butternut squash. I'm getting lots of female babies, but most of them are going soft and yellow, then dropping off, even before the flower buds open, so it can't be non pollination. However, for the few that have made it to flower, even when I hand pollinate, a few days later they go yellow and soft.
The soil is warm, moist and well fertilised, BUT they are growing right next to a whole load of pink fir apple potatoes - so could this be my problem? Any ideas how I can rescue my squash?
The soil is warm, moist and well fertilised, BUT they are growing right next to a whole load of pink fir apple potatoes - so could this be my problem? Any ideas how I can rescue my squash?
The good news is that on my return, I now seem to have one viable squash. (all the rest dropped off). The one good one is only about the size of a cricket ball, so I'm not holding out much hope that it will get to maturity, given the change in the weather. A lady up the road from me (who has dozens of great looking squashes - and grows them in her nice warm compost heap) insists that my soil can't be warm enough.
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