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    My pathetic courgettes

    Well the failure continues with my only 3 courgettes that are thin, wispy with no forming fruit. One of the main centre stems has been chewed off by slugs so pretty much another one to tick off as a write off or do they still have time ?


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    Still loads of time. It may help to get an old plastic bottle and cut it into 3 rings of plastic about 2 inches thick, then cut down them so you can fit them round the stems. Get some copper tape (Wilko is probably the cheapest if they have it) and put a band round the plastic making sure there are no gaps. This should help to keep the slugs off. The rings can be reused in future - I use them for courgettes, brassicas and lettuces, and sometimes for young bean plants.
    Last edited by Penellype; 04-08-2017, 01:19 PM.
    A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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    • #3
      I have sheep wool pellets but so far not very effective.

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      • #4
        Courgettes are hungry things. I dig a hole in the autumn and fill it with stuff that would normally go on the compost heap. In the early spring I cover it with soil and come May I plant the courgettes on the top of the mound. This gives them something to feed on and helps to retain the water.
        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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        • #5
          The courgettes came in the end and still getting good sizes. 2 out of 3 plants producing so not bad. For future reference I will not give up hope if they are still small and spindly late in the season. Fed with comfrey.
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          Last edited by Marb67; 17-10-2017, 11:18 AM.

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          • #6
            Congratulations, Marb. Mine have long since given up the ghost!

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            • #7
              Nice one Marb, mine too are long gone
              Location ... Nottingham

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              • #8
                Mine too... does anyone ever remember to sow another a bit later in the season?
                He-Pep!

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                • #9
                  ^^ I meant to...

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by bario1 View Post
                    Mine too... does anyone ever remember to sow another a bit later in the season?
                    Is it too late now?
                    My courgettes are just starting to crop - weird year! Next year, I'll be sowing a couple of seeds every month - to see how that works. Actually, I'm not going to wait - I'll sow some now (I'm nuts!)

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                    • #11
                      I think it's a bit late now.
                      And yes successional sowing works well with courgettes, mine seem to burn out after a time.
                      Also they hate wind, if you can put up some wind breaks around them they will love it.
                      Plus I prefer yellow ones, less watery.
                      Jimmy
                      Expect the worst in life and you will probably have under estimated!

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                      • #12
                        I've just sown 6 seeds - and they're All green ones. I have hundreds of courgette seeds so I won't lose any sleep when they die - I mean IF they die

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                        • #13
                          I picked what I think were my last ones the other day, there's a few that are an inch long so I'll give them a bit longer before pulling up the plants.
                          Location....East Midlands.

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                          • #14
                            Well done, Marb, and thanks for letting us know.

                            Mine were still producing last week... then visited the plot yesterday and the plants had all but disappeared... weird!

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                            • #15
                              One of mine seemed to stop before all the others, I was a bit disappointed. Now that they've all died back, I can see there's a zeppelin sized marrow attached to the early finisher.... how did I miss that??
                              He-Pep!

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