The problem with the courgette

... is that a plant carries both male flowers and female flowers, but that often, both sexes do not bloom at the same time. Here is a female flower : its bears a mini-courgette that will only transform into a true courgette if it is pollinated from a male flower. In my garden this year, all male flowers bloomed first and disappeared, and now I have plenty of female flowers that can not be pollinated anymore. So, plenty of nice yellow flowers, but no courgettes at all so far 😥😥😥

[Diana]

Such a sorry state, what happened to the male flowers?

[KV]

Interesting... excellent detail.

[Ethel]

Even nature is in disarray.

[Clare Gadsby]

eeeek we are growing courgettes for the first time and i had no idea of the trauma ahead of us! we have no flowers yet so things are still calm ...

[Etienne]

@ludwigsdiana Hi Diana, thanks for your comment. At the beginning, the first male flowers faded after a couple of days, and I have no idea why no new male flowers have come up since then, only female flowers are coming up now.