POLLENISING MARROWS
Marrows will soon be bearing flowers plentifully, and often amateur gardeners complain that the flowers are falling off without any fruit setting. This is probably due to faulty pollenising. The only remedy is to pollinate by hand. Two sorts of flowers are produced on the plants, those with an embryo marrow immediately behind them (the females) and those which are backed merely by a stalk (the males). Every morning when the sun is shining pick one or more of the male flowers and strip away the petals and rub its central column against ,the centre of each female flower. In the rubbing, pollen will be transferred from male to female, thus the work of Nature will be assisted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 28 (Supplement)
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120POLLENISING MARROWS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 28 (Supplement)
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