Why are my courgettes knobbly?!

**womble** · 02-09-2009, 12:43 PM

I had this last year with a yellow courgette, I presumed it had picked up some kind of virus.
It started giving yellow/green, wrong looking courgettes, I still ate them though

**sweetcorn** · 02-09-2009, 06:23 PM

Yes, we've been eating them too, but they're not as big as they should be, or as prolific. They taste fine! The leaves show no viral probs.

**Toby** · 02-09-2009, 08:02 PM

My mum had this problem last year. She was using water that had been through a water softner, when she stoped and used water that had not, the courgettes immediatly returned to normal.

**sweetcorn** · 02-09-2009, 08:30 PM

Do you think water butt water would have the same effect??

**Pies** · 02-09-2009, 08:32 PM

Could do rain water and softened water are very similar

**toastie** · 03-09-2009, 05:16 PM

Have been using rain water (from a water butt) to water ours and haven't had this problem. Ours have been growing like wildfire - pity you weren't closer to the Black Country or you could have had some as been giving quite a lot of them away. Have also been feeding them with tomato feed - they are in the same raised bed as some of the tomatoes (grew them in the same bed last year albeit a different one). Perhaps they've got a virus. Did you grow them from seed or buy them as small plants and transplanted them?

**Luci** · 04-09-2009, 09:23 AM

My courgettes are just beginning to go knobbly.
They've been producing normal ones until the last couple of days.
I just thought that the plant was beginning to run out of steam, and was producing the last of the courgettes!!

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