Fothergill's Courgette Blackstar F1 Vegetable Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Cucurbita pepo, a highly refined, premium hybrid selection within the Courgette genus.
• Plant Class: Half Hardy Annual, establishing with superior speed and stamina to deliver early and consistent kitchen-ready harvests.
• Exceptional Disease Resistance: Bred with advanced modern genetics to boast superb natural resistance against common garden ailments, ensuring the foliage stays healthy, green, and productive deep into autumn.
• Vigorous Open Habit: Naturally forms a tidy, non-trailing bush architecture with an exceptionally open canopy. This minimizes leaf tangles, accelerates early fruit development, and allows for quick, effortless, thorn-free picking.
• Stunning Dark Fruits: Yields beautifully straight, smooth-skinned fruits with a striking dark, glossy green color, firm white flesh, and a rich, sweet flavor that never becomes watery.
• Versatile Growing: Offers outstanding flexibility across the plot; its compact and controlled bush habit means it thrives just as successfully in large patio containers as it does in open garden beds or raised vegetable allotments.
• Culinary Excellence: A dream for the kitchen, holding its firm texture beautifully whether grilled on the barbecue, thinly sliced into stir-fries, roasted with Mediterranean herbs, or grated into baking recipes.

Care Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Start seeds indoors from April to May by sowing individual seeds on their edges 2cm deep in pots of moist compost. Alternatively, sow directly outdoors in late May or June into rich, warm soil once all danger of frost has fully passed. Position in full sun.
• Moisture & Nutrition: Courgettes are incredibly hungry and thirsty plants. Plant them out into soil enriched with plenty of well-rotted manure, and water them deeply and regularly around the base, especially during dry summer spells.
• Harvesting Tip: Use a sharp knife to harvest the courgettes regularly when they reach about 10–15cm (4–6in) in length. Frequent, consistent picking is vital to stimulate the plant into pushing out a non-stop supply of fresh flowers and fruits.