Meanwhile here’s the know-how you need to grow tasty courgettes!
Courgettes are one of the easiest and most productive crops you can grow yourself. They are extremely fast – from sowing you can be eating your own within six weeks!!
What you’ll need…
- Courgette seeds (from the Seed Bags ^.^)
- Multi-purpose compost
- Hand trowel
- Plastic pots
- Seed trays
Step 1. For early crops, sow in seeds trays on a windowsill. Sow one seed per cell into moist multi-purpose compost.
Step 2. Transplant you strongest seedlings into individual plastic potsIf you do not have soil area, change the pot to a bigger one and add compost.
Step 3. Choose a sunny, sheltered spot and if you have soil area dig a hole, adding a trowel of compost to the soil. Plant out your courgette plants 90cm apart. Place a layer of 5cm of compost to help the soil hold moisture.
Step 4. Keep your plants healthy by adding compost or liquid feed (organic ;)) when required. Harvest regularly when they reach 10cm long.
Tips
- Courgettes need plenty of water, but take care always to water at the base of the plant only or they’ll rot.
- Keeping the soil permanently moist is ideal.
- The large fleshy flowers can be eaten, but fewer courgettes will develop if you harvest too many.
- Remember that courgettes are young marrows, so you can get two different crops on one plant if you let some develop into marrows.
