courgettes

[mogs]

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?

[Polly]

So are mine. It's too wet & too cold..... pray to whatever god you might believe in that our weather warms up and dries out!!

[g8vkv]

Doing fine here, just about to harvest some little ones.

[Gardengirl]

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!

[Gardener]

Could they need pollinating?

http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/news/back-to-basics-courgettes

[Joe]

Mine are growing here in 56 its slugs and snails that are the problem.I have had to use pellets.Weather has improved over the last few days.

[suein56]

[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

[Jako]

'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.

[mogs]

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.