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Could anyone suggest how i can encourage my marrow plants to grow marrows, I have three plants and so far have harvested two fruits and lost one, all three were/are grown on old compost heaps and all are producing plenty of foliage and flowers, thanks for your help. mirita.
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Sounds like there is an excess of nitrogen and a shortage of potassium. A general potash based liquid tomato food might be the answer? Wondering how & why you lost one though?My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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The one I lost grew to a small courgette size, and as I touched it, it just fell away off the stem.Comment
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Hungry it sounds like. If the small one which fell off was there at the same time as a bigger/successful fruit it could definately be that there wasn't enough to sustain both.Originally posted by mirita View Post
Can't be starving if they're on a compost heap. I reckon Snadgers right and it's in the mix.Comment
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Thanks to Snadger and pickledtink, I'm afraid that leads now to another question, how do I check that the mix is right in future should I wish to grow marrows on a compost heap again? Plus, are there any other crops suitable for growing on compost heaps? Thanks, mirita.Comment
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Usually the initial growth exhausts the soil after a month. This is no exact science though so don't quote me!
After that if you want more leaf and/or growth you feed with fish blood and bone or general purpose plant food.Miracle grow, Growmore etc
Once you're fruit has set ( first flowers off and small swelling in place) you change the feed to seaweed base or tomato food which has less Nitrogen to encourage leaf.
Hope that helps but the weather has been a bugger this year so a lot of your problems could simply be down to that.Comment
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Marrows
My allotment neighbour gave me two courgette plants which I too were doing nothing, what with flowers dropping off, etc.
I ignored them for a while (apart from watering) and all of a sudden my courgettes had transformed into sizeable marrows
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