Here's the thing fellow veggie-pop-pickers. I have been growing cucumbers for about three seasons now in the greehouse. I can't be a doing with these 'ere all female cucumber plants, all a bit too sapphic for me. I reckon I get 10 boys to every girl. Same really with the courgettes. I pick off the male flowers on t' cucumbers, but let the male courgettes be (ahhh - what a brave new world that has such gods, innit?).
Whadja reckon? Good strategy or no? As much as I have longevity on my side, I am entirely without coaching on the gardening front. I also brush my tomato flowers gently with a paintbrush, what with them also being greenhouse bound.
Advice?
Odd thing here:
PS, what's 6 + 11? I'm gunna guess with 17...
Just look at his great ears flapping about.
Someone (I think it might have been ToffeeApple) had a batch of courgette plants which were completely male. I have planted some courgettes from a variety of sources (including the same ones TA used) and one of the plants so far had only produced male flowers too. Normally I get a roughly 50:50 split, or possibly biased more towards male flowers, but never noticed anything as much as 10x as many.
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Me too, only males flowers on all my courgettes, squash & cucumbers but I am having another go this year.
I belong to a forum in the USA & lots of gardeners were complaining of the same thing so it is not just happening in this country.
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from Les Miserables
I must just ask...are they wearing earings when the appear..cus if so I am sincerely worried...
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Terrier said:
No earings that I can see, but they seem to have a pretty garish eyeshadow on...
In that case...nuke 'em....
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Toffeeapple said:
I wonder what the reason for that is? I'd be interested to find out, only if it is not global warming!
You may be onto something , it's certainly possible to alter the sex ratio from eggs by minute variations of temperature never did it but some years seemed to be cock years and some hen. Remember seeing a wild life programme and crocodile eggs do it as well.
Seed catalogues are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than the web and playboy combined . (after Michael Perry)
Ruth, you must try them as they are delicious. In Italy they sell them in the markets. They are a great starter for a meal. You can add various things to the basic stuffing mixture¦..I love chopped anchovy, just a little as you don't want to take away from the delicate taste of the flower itself.
Mmmmmmm¦.!
PS....by the way the breadcrumbs should be from day-old bread , not dried, crispy ones.
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