It seems to be a rotten year for courgett plants. There were none available to buy in my local garden centres in April or May (due I was told to the growers not being able to germinate the seeds and grow on due to the weather in March) and even hard to find up to June.
My plants were put under cloches in the veg. plot in early June and even now with the warm weather, they are lethargic and not producing the number of flowers as in previous years. I suppose we will just have to try again next year!
bigolob. There did appear to be less on sale, here too. I look at GC's stock to guage how well mine are growing and their's were similar to mine this year, which is unusual, GC's one's are normally romping away.
If you sow back up plants, a couple of weeks after the first lot have germinated and don't plant all out at the same time, you have a wider window for success. Your later sowing will also go on producing more veg when the first on'e have been exhausted.
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It seems to be a rotten year for courgett plants. There were none available to buy in my local garden centres in April or May (due I was told to the growers not being able to germinate the seeds and grow on due to the weather in March) and even hard to find up to June.
My plants were put under cloches in the veg. plot in early June and even now with the warm weather, they are lethargic and not producing the number of flowers as in previous years. I suppose we will just have to try again next year!
bigolob. There did appear to be less on sale, here too. I look at GC's stock to guage how well mine are growing and their's were similar to mine this year, which is unusual, GC's one's are normally romping away.
If you sow back up plants, a couple of weeks after the first lot have germinated and don't plant all out at the same time, you have a wider window for success. Your later sowing will also go on producing more veg when the first on'e have been exhausted.
thanks everyone for the advice