Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book

Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-

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There are many types and courgette varieties that you can try to grow. Have you tried them all? Why not try a new variety this year? Let us know which ones you grow in the comments below.

• All Green Bush Courgette – These give high crops of delicious dark green fruits that should be cut when they are around about 10cm long. These crops for a long period as long as they are picked regularly.
• Ambassador F1 Courgette – These are an early variety which have dark green fruits.
• Atena Polka F1 Courgette- Have you tried this variety they will add colour to your dish with this amazing yellow fruited variety. They are excellent flavoured courgettes and produce great fruits.
• Battani F1 Courgette –  Are an early courgette with a high yielding crop variety which produce large quantities of very dark green small fruits.
• Clarion F1 Courgette – These courgettes produce a very early fruit. Harvest them when they are around 12 cm long.
• Defender F1 Courgette – The defender courgette is a heavy yielding crop which like its name is a defender and resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus. They are deep green fruits which are produced all summer long if cropped regularly
• Early Gem F1 Courgette -Very early crop of dark green fruits with a lighter green stripe. Dual purpose as the fruits can be left to form good shaped marrows.
• Floridor F1 Courgette – These courgettes are in a shape of spheres. They are very productive with golden yellow fruit. Don’t mix them up with melons
• Midnight F1 Courgette This courgette is a slightly speckled courgette with a great flavour, the plant is compact and bushy. These courgettes are Ideal for growing in containers. Completely spineless and so easier to pick without getting prickled.
• Nero de Milano Courgette – These courgettes again are in the shape of spears but are dark green early variety and not yellow, they are around 18-20cm in length. Plant these in an open area so that they are easy to pick when it comes to harvesting them
• Partenon F1 Courgette – This is a courgette where you do not need to pollinate as it is self-pollinating, so can grow fruit without the need for insects. It will crop all season round, from summer through to the autumn. This courgette is ideal for growing in containers. IT is high yielding.

Why not try a different courgette varieties this year?