Two courgette plants - one courgette

Ilovecubbage

You are supposed to pick them up small the more you pick the more they produce. Now you`ve picked up one there should be more comming up. Heds up then. Hope you don`t get sick of them!
I love courgets by the way & never get sick of them, but the kids do.

orchidpepper

haha Wallbash, I don't blame em! Managed to convert one last year though, gave her a couple of plants and this year she has 5 too lol

I'm getting totally obsessed though, spending ages every day poking round the garden making sure everything is ok, nothing needs harvested, everything watered etc

elsien

Giving a high nitrogen feed kickstarted mine into action - up till then I was giving an ordinary plant food, which obviously wasn't quite enough.

wallbash

Off on hols next w/e , leaving the kids to tend the crops!!!
Will be happy just to return to plants that are still alive.

motherkitty

I have a fair few courgettes on my 3 plants which are grown in a large pot. Some of the leaves are turning yellow and also some of the courgettes are turning yellow at the ends and black at the end nearest the plant, and are shrivelling up and not really growing much. I also have some on the same plants that are growing fine.
Any ideas anyone?

Primrose

Pick them small, cut lengthways and griddle or grill them without any oil or butter. They retain their sweetness and are actually edible cooked by this method!

evie451

awww the poor much maligned courgette! pick off any that are going yellow when small, give tomato/seaweed feed as its got more potash to encourage fruit and flowers rather than a Nitrogen feed which will give more leaf........I am battling with peat free compost with my pot grown courgettes and its definitely slowed them up a bit, i am currently only supplying my own house and the neighbours are still talking to me!

irishwexford

I found a lady at my bowls club who said she loves courgettes. She will be so sorry she told me that. I have five large containers of courgette soup in freezer and still they keep coming. Have no more containers so until she starts avoiding me she can share the load.:D

EC12345

We have about 3 courgette plants - and we are getting a courgette every couple of days so we are really pleased. There is a big one on their at the moment which needs picking which we are putting on a homemade pizza tomorrow - there are also about 4 others growing.

We also planted yellow courgette plants this years but they has been a disaster and most of them look rotten and nothing has ever come of them .....

Primrose

I was given a couple of free courgette plants this year in addition to two home sown ones, and didn't like to waste them but four plants is really too many just for two us of us, even when I pick them when they're very tiny to use raw in salads. However, my four cucumber plants are also now cropping prolifically, so we're spoilt for choice in salads. However, cucumbers, especially the mini ones are delicious sliced and used in Chinese stir fries and are not dissimilar in texture to water chestnuts, and a lot cheaper when you've grown them yourself.