Cultivated summer squash, also known as a courgette.
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How to stop my courgettes (zucchini) rotting?
I've tried growing courgettes (zucchini) for the first time this year and the plants have been delightfully easy to grow. (For reference, I'm in NE England, UK, btw.) However, many of the fruits ...
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Enormous courgettes, puny pumpkins … I want them the other way round
Typically in August/September I get vigourous courgette plants but if I don't catch and harvest the fruits quickly I end up with enormous useless marrows.
At the same time my pumpkins are doing the ...
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What variety is this curvy courgette / zucchini with a bulge at the flower end?
This is a picture of courgette/zucchini from a plant I bought but no longer have the tag for. The shape shown is the same as every other courgette from the plant. They look like a coat hook to me!
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What steps can I use to encourage pollination?
I have some plants that have many flowers but not very many vegetables being produced; sometimes it seems as if I'm growing the plants for the pretty flowers and not for the vegetables that may ...
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What's the best way to kill cucumber beetles after I've started harvesting?
My yellow squash and zucchini are infested with both striped and spotted cucumber beetles. I don't think I can use Sevin Dust anymore because I've already started harvesting them. I tried food grade ...
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Zucchini leaves yellowing - but not powdery mildew
I have about 8 zucchini plants, about 6- 8 weeks along, which are starting to show signs of disease on the leaves.
It's definitely not powdery mildew, but the end result is quite similar. Leaves are ...
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Is something wrong with my zucchini plant?
I have three large zucchini plants in my garden, and all three have been producing nice fruits for a few weeks. The last couple days, one of them has started to turn yellow and sickly:
I've never ...
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Why do some of my zucchini shrivel and turn yellow at the blossom end?
Every year, I grow a zucchini plant, and every year a few of the zucchini stop growing once they reach a few inches in length, then turn yellow from the blossom end:
Left to themselves, they will ...
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Mange Tout/Peas & Courgettes/Marrows
Is a mange tout merely an immature pea and there's nothing more to it than that? And while we're at it, is a courgette (zucchino for Americans & Italians) just an immature marrow and that's all?
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