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my courgettes have a lote of male flowers and no female ones. Should I pick off all the male flowers?

shari

By Shari

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  • Question asked on 20 Jul, 2009

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nickyt08
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Its probably best to leave them on incase you get a female flower and have prematurely removed a male.

20 Jul, 2009

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