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Patty Pan squashes.

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shysal Fri 28-Aug-26 10:22:35
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I have 3 plants of this vegetable, grown from seed of mixed colours. It is one of the few things that I have kept watered so it is quite rampant and covered with dozens of flowers. However, I have harvested one solitary squash and all the remaining flowers appear to be female. Is it something I am doing wrong or just the luck of the draw?
I love these flying saucer-shaped veg. They are firmer than courgettes and lovely sliced and roasted with a sprinkling of Parmesan.

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Lathyrus3 Fri 28-Aug-26 12:20:54

I grew the yellow ones for the first time this year from a free packet of seed that came with something else I ordered.

They were rampant in July ti the extent that Id given them to everyone I could think of and resorted to putting them in the compost!

Then August just the odd one or two, no flowers and I decided they'd finished. Luckily I didn’t pull them up because they're off again with lots of babies.

I think it just got too hot and dry. Hopefully yours will have a second grow as well.🙂

(Did you mean only male flowers?)

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shysal Fri 28-Aug-26 12:36:59

Sorry, of course I meant only male flowers! Senior moment!

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