Why no more new fruit on my zukes?

 Hi All,

I am attempting to grow zucchini this year.  I am a total
beginner and no little of what I am doing.

Problem: on my four producing plants, I have lots of
flowers but no new fruit.  I initially got a very nice
fruit off of each plant.  But, then for the last two weeks,
nothing new.  I have lots of flowers by no new fruit.
The plants seem healthy (well, to me anyway).  I am puzzled.

Do I need to shake the flowers or somethings to make sure they
pollinate?  Any ideas what to do?

Many thanks,
-T

 Todd wrote:

Do you have any bees?

D

 On 08/08/2011 02:54 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:

We see very few.  Had some kind of parasite come through a few
year back and really hurt the bee population.

 Todd wrote:

Then follow Billy's recipe for doing AI for marrows.

D

 

Assuming you have no bees and without bees you need to manually pollinate.
Pick a few male flowers, peel off the petals then dab the stamen onto the
female flower's stigma.  Roll it around well.  It's tedious but the only way
you'll get zukes without bees.

Paul