Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: UrbanGrower on August 12, 2014, 12:34
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Hi
After a few glorious weeks of courgette soup, courgette cake, courgette frittata etc my courgette plants don't look so well. There are new leaves coming through but a lot of them look really poorly. Brown, rotting dry. I wasn't sure if this is just them dying after a few months of greatness or if they are crying out for some food. I normally feed them once a week with tomato food. I have an images attached. Any help or advice is greatly welcome. Thanks again.
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They probably think they've done enough by now!
Take off the old leaves which are contributing nothing to the plant and will encourage mildew, and try a general purpose liquid feed which will contain more nitrogen and possibly other micronutrients which they may be lacking.
That may be enough to give them enough of a kick start to produce a few more fruits.
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Brill thanks for the advice. And fingers crossed. One more thing when cutting off the dead leaves do I cut at the top of the stall near the leaf or the base of the stalk near the main plant stalk. Thanks again
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Near the base - just pull them off, or cut them off if you prefer.