zuchinni Help!

I am getting great blossoms on my zuchinni but they keep falling off. My yard has been saturated since I planted them. They are growing bigger but no starts. Is it the wet or is it something else?

Thanks,

Karen

Probably both, wet weather can keep insects form coming around and pollinating the flowers. If that is the case you can pollinate them yourself.
Go out in the morning with a Q tip and put the pollen from the male flower on the female.
The female flower has a little squash already showing right behind it.
The male flower has just a short stem.
I have done that sometimes and it works.
Josephine.

Josephine,

Thanks, I thought it might be pollenation. I will try that. I have lots of butterflies but they aren't going to the zuchinni. No bees that I have seen.

Karen

I've had luck pollinating them with a qtip as well.

I'm sorry to say that with all the rain we've had, thy are just susceptible to root rot and mildew. They're really meticulous little buggers. I always lose a few each year to the humidity and rain so I plant about 10 and pray. For me, they don't ever seem to make it past mid-June. Try as I may.