Vegetable Courgette seeds
Courgettes (Vegetable Marrow)
(Cucurbita
maxima)
Sow from
April to early June 18-21°C singly, edge on, 1.25cm deep, in pots. Plant out
after last frost. Space plants up to 1m apart. Feed weekly and keep well
watered. Can be grown early or late under glass to extend the growing period.
Courgette flowers are also widely used.
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Courgette Best of British
A hybrid British bred courgette and one of the earliest
to set fruit. Best of British has an open habit allowing plenty of
sunlight encouraging quicker than average fruit development. Spine free
plants produce a bumper crop of dark green tasty fruits whatever the
weather. Good disease resistance.
£1.65 Av 10 seeds
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Courgette Patio Star NEW
A very compact courgette ideal for
containers or grow bags. Patio star is half the size of normal plants and
is the perfect for growing on patios or for the kids vegetable plot,
producing tasty dark green fruits on spine free plants.
£1.65 Av 10 seeds
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Courgette Siesta seeds
A new spineless variety, bushy habit with vibrant
yellow fruits that have distinctive white stripes, leaves also have golden
yellow splashes. Produces multiples of fruit on each plant
£1.49 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette
seeds 'Tromboncino'
AKA Tromba D'Albenga
Italian courgette from Liguria that is both ornamental and vegetable,
Tromboncino is a climbing courgette ideal for trellis, archways and even
hanging baskets. Fruits have a long meaty neck that is all flesh and
bulbous shape at the end containing the seeds. Fruits are best harvested
at approx 30cm long, but larger fruits still taste as good. Sow from March
to July.
£1.25 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette Midnight
seeds
British bred F1 variety, spine free compact plants, this courgette is ideal for containers. High yields of dark green glossy fruits.
£1.65 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette Defender Organic Sourced
An excellent very early maturing F1 variety, producing a heavy crop of dark
fruits all summer long. Open habit making harvesting easier. Resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus. RHS Award of Garden Merit
£1.90 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette Green Bush
Early maturing courgette, produces masses of small tender fruits on
compact bushy plants. Left to grow they will produce tasty marrows.
£1.50 Av
20 seeds
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Courgette Piccolo
A dual
purpose hybrid variety producing an abundance of almost round green
stripped courgettes that are ideal for kebabs. Courgette Piccolo can be left to
mature into small round marrows which are perfect for stuffing. Compact
bush, spine free variety that is easy to grow, ideal for the younger
growers and perfect for containers and could be harvested young for baby veg.
£1.95 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette Safari
A new and unique hybrid courgette producing striking green stripped fruits.
Plant produces an abundance of tasty cylindrical fruits that are great
sliced. Plants are spine free bush habit – a real contrast to standard
courgettes.
£1.95 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette One Ball
Produces bright yellow
round fruits of excellent flavour, a hybrid courgette variety. Works well
in combination with F1 Eight Ball. Bush habit with high yields of round
courgettes that are good for both roasting and stuffing. Harvest young for baby veg.
£2.15 Av 10 seeds
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Courgette
Eight Ball
Baby veg
F1 variety, high yields of small dark green pool ball size rounded uniform fruits,
compact, bush habit. Best harvested when approx 5cm, round courgettes that are good for both stuffing or steaming. RHS Award of Garden Merit
£1.55 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette
Taxi
A very high yielding F1 variety, easy to pick yellow fruits of high quality. Harvest when fruits are young for best flavour. Leave them to grow for marrows when they are ideal for stuffing.
£1.75 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette
Parthenon
A high quality courgette F1 Parthenon of excellent flavour, it is early maturing and does not
require pollinating by bees, suitable for greenhouse or tunnels, can be
grown outdoors.
£3.35 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette
Nero di Milano Organic Sourced
Sow April to June Harvest July
onwards
Medium early dark green cylindrical fruit of about 18-20cm in length.
Erect open plant habit for easy picking. A main crop bush vegetable for
the outdoor plot. Early sowings under glass @ 16C, May sowings in cold
frames or cloches, outdoor early June.
£1.35 Av 15 seeds
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Courgette Ambassador
Early High Quality F1 Zucchini type maturing in approx 50 days. Fruits
10-20cm long with beautiful waxy appearance containing crisp white flesh.
Very high yielding excellent flavour.
£1.65 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette Arlesa
Hybrid courgette, Arlesa can be harvested at the young stage for baby veg
or young zucchini. A successor to the popular variety Aphrodite. Arlesa offers high yields of long, straight, mid to dark green
fruits. Excellent storage capabilities. Tolerant of Cucumber Mosaic Virus,
Melon Mosaic Virus and Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus. Perfect for steaming.
£1.95 Av
10 seeds
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Courgette Bambino
Courgette Bambino a baby veg F1 variety produces heavy yields of dark green baby fruits over a long
period. The use of courgette flowers is becoming more popular in many
restaurants, and this variety can be harvested with the flower on, or the
flower detached to be used separately. Sow April to early June, harvest
from July onwards, the season can be extended by growing under cover. RHS Award of Garden Merit
£1.95 Av
10 seeds
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Marrow that can be harvested young as
courgette
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Marrow
Sunbeam
seeds
Cucurbita pepo
Hybrid,
Sunbeam makes a striking addition to the vegetable patch, producing an
abundance of delicious golden yellow striped marrows which can also be
picked young as courgettes.
£1.95 Av
10 seeds
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The cultural
information should be used as a guide only, I have found a number of different
sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem
to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only,
you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a
rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed
like Lobelia Begonia etc requires no cover.
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