Courgettes

I'm growing courgettes for the first time this year and seem to have a problem with the flowers. Today (really hot and sunny!) the flowers came out in the morning and had closed up and started to shrivel by lunchtime.

Is that normal? I am wondering whether they may have had too much sun but i thought they would have liked that! I also made sure they had plenty of water so can't work out what else it could be??

 

Ni Nathan, nope i didn't water the flowers, i did water the soil the night before though.

Thanks
James

 

The male flowers (without the baby) often appear before the females (with the baby). Did the flowers have a long stalk, or a shortish stalk with a baby courgette behind the flower? :rolleyes:

[ 17. June 2006, 07:45 AM: Message edited by: supersprout ]

 

The flowers have got a long stalk! Great, that answers that question then, thanks! Do you know if the male flowers are eadible?

I had some pasta on holiday recently with courgette flowers in.....really nice!