Can anyone advise on good varieties of these?
We recently bought some that were around the size of a tennis ball, medium green with lots of small orange flecks all over them. They tasted great - any ideas of equivalent ones we could grow in the UK?
Round courgettes
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Evening Colin,
There are several examples in Tucker's catalogue.I can't recommend any of them because I hate eating courgettes but will grow them for others to eat if asked.
There are several examples in Tucker's catalogue.I can't recommend any of them because I hate eating courgettes but will grow them for others to eat if asked.
Regards snooky
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I don't know why but I find it difficult to get my head round the concept of round courgettes. I'm quite happy to grow yellow tomatoes and purple beans and carrots but somehow round courgettes don't excite me. I think it may possibly be the way I cut vegetables for cooking - round things somehow just seem more awkward to cut into nice equal sized pieces.
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Primrose wrote:I don't know why but I find it difficult to get my head round the concept of round courgettes. I'm quite happy to grow yellow tomatoes and purple beans and carrots but somehow round courgettes don't excite me. I think it may possibly be the way I cut vegetables for cooking - round things somehow just seem more awkward to cut into nice equal sized pieces.
You could always stuff it
We shall be growing Eight Ball (from Medwyn Williams) for the first time this year, mainly for the village show in September. I am just hoping that the judge will see them as courgettes because, some years ago, when I entered a round marrow, it was disqualified as "not according to schedule" because the judge did not recognise it as a marrow!