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Courgette plants have given up
Howzit_China
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in Fruit & veg
Hi all,
Looking for some advice on what might be wrong with my courgette plants. I have two and they are both in the sorry state like the one in the photo.
I have been removing the old, dead leaves as the plants grow, and have noticed the new leaves are just not getting as big.
Also, I have not had a courgette off of either in them for about four weeks.
Any ideas?
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They look hungry and thirsty to me - mine get fed with tomato feed every 10 days or so. They also need lots of watering otherwise the leaves get powdery mildew.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That is what I think as well. Mine are in the ground, have been fed and regularly watered, they are huge. I don't think those pots are big enough either.
Thanks for the replies
I water them every second day, maybe it needs to be every day as they are in pots.
Interesting re the size of the pots. They are 30 litres, you think that's too small?
Hard to tell from the photos, but to me they look a lot smaller than that!
hi every one courgettes are very greedy plants and need constant watering and feeding. i also feed mine on comfrey feed which is liquid gold and has an awful smell but gets great results.
i have mine planted on raised beds from clearing the top of my allotment with also giant pumpkins and they are prolific, cannot keep up with the harvest so my friends and family are all conjuring up recipes to devour them
happy gardening
@ Chris: very nice
@ Busy-Lizzie: they are definitely 30L. It's a close up shot.
OK more water it is. Thanks everybody.
Do you mean 3 litres? That's what they look like! I grew mine in the compost heap again and have had some beauties. They have plenty of space to ramble and it has been quite moist despite the drought this summer.
I once tried growing courgettes in 30 litre tubs - they really struggled.
At the moment I have three plants - each of them has a 1 metre x 1 metre x 0.5 metre raised bed , in a mixture of 50:50 good topsoil and well rotted organic farm manure on bare soil - they're not as good as they've been when I've grown them direct in good veg plot soil.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No they are definitely 30 litres, it says so on the side.
Pots are very economical on space, which I am short of. Perhaps next summer I will get some 40 litre pots for courgettes.
Get them in the ground if you possibly can. If they do well (which they will if you follow the advice above) you'll only need one or two plants.