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Courgette

jim10jim10 Posts: 17
in Fruit & veg
Hi all,

I have 4 courgette plants. Only 1 seems to be thriving. The other 3 are very pale green and don't look healthy. Any ideas on how to rescue them? Or will they pull round?


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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Ours sulked for many weeks. We planted out 2 in an old compost heap...sulked even more!. 2 were planted out into the polytunnel and are going great guns....but no flowers etc yet. So maybe yours are still too young.
  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812
    What is different from that one to the other three? Work that out and there is your answer.
    You're the man on the job......
  • jim10jim10 Posts: 17
    MikeOxgreen said:
    What is different from that one to the other three? Work that out and there is your answer.
    You're the man on the job......
    All treated the same way
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The bigger one probably germinated before the others but you pricked out and potted up all at the same time? 
    The nights are still too cold for them to be outside, or is that just me,  never above 8° here.   They need double figures. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Mine have been out for a little while - couple of weeks, but were undercover until they were a good size, and they're in a sheltered site. It's also been very hot and dry here so they grew quickly. In a more normal year, mine would have been slower. We've only had one night that was double figures since they were planted out, which was two nights ago, and several at frost level, but it can also depend on variety as to how quickly they grow.
    Your smaller ones do look a bit small to be out, so they've probably just gone out too soon, whereas the other one has come on quicker. That often happens with plants of all kinds, regardless of them being sown at the same time and in the same medium and conditions, so it's not necessarily a huge problem.  :)
    Perhaps it's worth bringing those ones inside at night again for a couple of weeks or so until they're a bit bigger and sturdier  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Each new leaf should be much bigger than the last.  None of yours are.  I don't know the answer; they probably all received a check.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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