recommend some good tasty courgette varieties please

[tiggy]

this year I grew round courgettes[lidl seeds] and unnamed yellow ones [a gift] next year I would like to try different varieties so what have you grown that gives the best results flavour etc. Also has anybody grown climbing courgettes? I seem to think that T&M may sell the seeds.

[Odsox]

I grew (am still growing) the new kid on the block Parthenon.
I am very impressed with it and I will certainly grow it again next year. It is one of the new breed that doesn't need pollinating and because of that I only needed to grow just the one plant.
Other years I have grown several plants to make sure that male and female flowers coincided early on when they first came into flower, only to be absolutely swamped with fruit later on.
With the one I grew this year, every flower was female and all developed into a courgette fruit at the manageable rate of about 3 a week. Also the flavour is distinctly better than others that I've grown in the past.

Climbing courgette is (I think) a bit of an advertising ploy as all rambling type courgettes, marrow & squash will "climb" as they scramble up and over obstacles.
The big pain is that you need to tie them to whatever it is you want them to climb, on a very regular basis.

[Peggy Sue]

I grew a yellow F1 Jemmer. Very productive but I think I'd like to try a heritage variety next year so I can seed save.

Something wierd happened in August, they suddenly started producing green bits on the yellow and look like crosses now!

[Lynda_2008]

Our very favorite is Costata Romanesco. We are in the US and order ours from Johnny's Selected Seed http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/prod ... ?item=2053 but my market gardener mother in law in the UK is familiar with the cultivar name so I expect that they should be available there.

The only negative about Romanesco is that it gets quite big and bushy and would use up a lot of space in an allotment. You'd get the most delicious courgettes, but it may not be the best use of your space to grow them that way.

We grow ours now in 5 gallon buckets which has worked great. That give them all the soil they need and the plants can bush out as far as they want to. We just move buckets around to keep them from crowding their neighbors as needed.

Lynda

[sleepyowl]

De Nice Rond have a good flavour & can even be used raw in salads (I prefer them fried in butter with a bit of garlic myself) harvest them when they are about the size of a tennis ball.

[Cheezy]

I can recommend the yellow round one "F1 One Ball" it's very prolific, produces very pretty yellow round balls which are a great flavour, and is up right so does not spread everywhere. I grew three and I'll not be doing that again as I've been giving them away, even though the summer's been rubbish.
I thought the one ball wouldn't develop into marrows, but you get pumpkins instead if you leave them too long!

I think they must be self fertile cos I've not done a thing and we've hardly had any bee's, and one of the plants is in a different bed