No flowers on courgette or pumpkins

[HermioneWeasley]

The plants are green and healthy with big leaves (size of dinner plates on the pumpkins) but nothing happening with the flowers

I’ve been feeding them - is there anything else I can do and is there any hope for them?

Thanks

I wouldn’t feed until there’s signs of flowers and fruit.
Plants produce flowers/ fruit when they need to reproduce, usually when they’re feeling ‘ stressed’ and think their life is ending.
Sorry to make it sound dramatic! I’m sure there’s an explanation using biological terminology.
Stop feeding just water.

Are you sure nothing is eating the flowers?

Thanks for the replies

There are little flower “buds” so I don’t think anything is eating them, they’re just not doing anything

What are you feeding them with? I've always found tomato food is good for encouraging plants to flower (works for houseplants too).

An all purpose plant food?

My non expert (but with massive pumpkins ripening in my garden) understanding is that general food will encourage general growth (ie leaves) but you need less nitrogen and more potash (which is sold as tomato food) to encourage flowers and fruits.

Yes, agree with Olaf. The fact you say you have huge leaves suggests over-feeding.

I feed my courgettes, but that's because they're in tubs in my slug-free zone. If they were in the open ground, I wouldn't feed them. But in containers I feed them with tomato fertiliser (or rose fertiliser if I can't get tomato fertiliser).