Tag: Courgette

  • Sowing Courgettes in April (Not May) is your ticket to an Earlier Harvest

    Sowing Courgettes in April (Not May) is your ticket to an Earlier Harvest

    Learn why sowing courgettes in April gives earlier, stronger crops in the UK. Discover when, how, and where to sow for the best results.

  • Yellow Leaves & White Spot Leaf Problems for Courgettes and Pumpkins

    Yellow Leaves & White Spot Leaf Problems for Courgettes and Pumpkins

    Courgettes, Squash and Pumpkins have giant leaves, which unfortunately makes them vulnerable to a range of leaf diseases. If leaf symptoms are spotted early, you might be able to save the plant. Quick Signs to Look for: Here’s some of the Leaf Diseases that I’ve had this year: 1.Yellowing Leaves Yellowing leaves range from yellowing…

  • Cooking with Yellow Ball Courgettes – Beef & Rice

    Cooking with Yellow Ball Courgettes – Beef & Rice

    I love cooking and I admit I never follow a recipe properly. I always think it needs more of that or less of this. I’ve not always been good at cooking, when I was teenager, I used to burn everything and my mother use to say you’ll have to marry a man that can cook…

  • Oh Balls! I’m Growing Courgette Balls

    Oh Balls! I’m Growing Courgette Balls

    I grow Ball Courgettes every year, they are round instead of the normal long shaped courgettes. I love the ball round courgettes as they form on compact plants and they look stunningly unusual in the vegetable garden. A Ball courgette plant can form up to 3 or 4 courgette balls on one plant at one…

  • 1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..

    1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..

    It’s certainly been a bumper year for courgettes, I thought I’d never say this but when do they stop?! I thought that 3 ball courgettes per plant on two plants were just enough to deal with, my husband decided to give the plants a feed with Tomato-rite and two weeks later, we have more to…

  • August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.

    August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.

    The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…

  • Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Recipes for Vegetable Gluts

    Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Recipes for Vegetable Gluts

    Welcome to Sow, Grow, Harvest’s weekly digital and social media great finds. I’ve been on the hunt for some great recipes to use up the vegetable harvest gluts in my vegetable garden at the moment and other recipes for vegetables I’ve not eaten before. Petty Pan (baby) Squash Recipes Oven Recipe Ginger spiced stuffed Petty…

  • Early July Progress in the Vegetable Garden

    Early July Progress in the Vegetable Garden

    July is the month for filling the gaps in your vegetable beds, waiting for harvests and buying seed for sowing July to August for Autumn and winter vegetables. This year we are having a mild summer in the UK, with periods of rain and very short periods of heat up to 30 degrees centigrade. We…

  • Interesting Vegetables: Growing Ball Courgettes – Green Striped Ball – Piccolo F1

    Interesting Vegetables: Growing Ball Courgettes – Green Striped Ball – Piccolo F1

    The shape of these courgettes fascinates me and how they grow on the courgette plant. One of the best things about growing your own vegetables is the wide variety of shapes and different varieties you can grow yourself and not find in the shops. Why grow normal courgettes, when you can grow ball courgettes? A…