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my round courgettes are flowering nicely and forming nice little baby courgettes, but, they're sort of going a brownish colour and dropping off before forming into nice, edible courgettes.

Is it the wet weather? An insect? Any other suggestions please what might be wrong?
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Unfortunately they often do that when it's cold and wet. Fingers crossed for better weather - it seems to be improving around here after some bad days. After hearing about good weather in Uk I'm hoping for a good crop of courgettes and tomatoes, but I had to plant them 5 weeks ago before coming out here - so they might have curled up and died of cold; they were only babes when I planted them in the cold clay soil!
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[quote user="Joe"]Mine are growing here in 56 its slugs and snails that are the problem.[/quote]

Here, a bit lower in 56 than Joe, the courgettes have grown well but the beasties have gone for the strawberries with a vengeance this year.

Sue

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'ordinary' courgettes have to be pollinated. So you need good weather, some friendly insects and a compatible plant nearby. If not, they turn brown and die.

Better use F1 Hybrid courgettes that do not need pollination.

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All I know is that they are getting lovely big flowers and you can see the small round courgette appearing nicely.

It's only after a few days (in between the showers) that you realise the nice flower and plant have gone brown and dropped off.

Fingers crossed for some sunshine then.
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