Courgettes - where do they fruit

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aelf

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Re: Courgettes - where do they fruit
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2009, 10:57 »
Thanks all.

Do you eat the flowers raw.

yes, stick them in a salad with beetroot leaves, nasturtium etc. Fab!  :)
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Re: Courgettes - where do they fruit
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2009, 19:33 »
WOW, I didn't know that you could eat the flowers raw! We ate one flower last year in a soft lemonade batter and it was gorgeous, one flower for five of us, lol :( !

Does removing the flower from the courgette whilst it's still growing damage it? Do we have to wait till we pick the courgette?

My son, the budding chef, can't wait to make chocolate courgette plant, however, both kids have a bit of the problem with the fact that they're growing in manure! They currently won't touch the lettuce or the radishes and we've got a bit of a glut going on.

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Re: Courgettes - where do they fruit
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2009, 19:43 »
Take the male flowers (the ones without the baby courgette behind) but not all of them at once or you will never get any courgettes :lol: At the start of the year they do tend to make a lot of male flowers so it's easy to take them then :)

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Re: Courgettes - where do they fruit
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2009, 19:51 »
Yes - that's it - cull the males!

Typical female respeonse.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Courgettes - where do they fruit
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2009, 19:55 »
Yes - that's it - cull the males!

Typical female respeonse.

Whoa.... who's getting a trifle defensive then ::)
Did say you have to leave some alive if you want (courgette) babies, think that's a fair comment though:lol: :tongue2: :lol:

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Re: Courgettes - where do they fruit
« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2009, 22:09 »
Err, no one told me you only need ONE Courgette per Chocolate Courgette Cake! My son's asked for 18 bars of chocolate this week, ,lol!

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