Posted: Mon Jul 25, 05 8:33 am Post subject: Strange courgette fruit
My courgettes are starting to fruit now and most of the fruit is fine. However about a third starts to grow normally but then the top half stops growing and the bottom half swells to produce a spherical fruit. i.e. it ends up as a spherical fruit about 4 / 5 cm diameter with a 1 / 1.5 cm diameter tail. Most of these are hard and not particularly usable but the rest are perfectly acceptable.
Any ideas why this should be?
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 05 9:17 am Post subject:
I get those sometimes too. My Gold Rush courgettes seem particularly prone - they are normally a darker yellow than the good ones. Could be a pollination thing, or not enough water perhaps?
Now I just chop them off when I spot them as they tend to be too bitter to be edible.
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