Pollinating courgette flower by hand
In wet weather conditions your courgettes might not get fertilised due to the lack of insects to pollinate the flowers.
Courgette blossom end rot with spores
If so, your courgette fruits won’t mature or worse develop blossom end rot.
Courgette flower male and female
It’s possible to hand pollinate the flowers by brushing the pollen from the male courgette flower on to the stigma of the female flower.
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