u/wedloualf

I've been trying to grow these for four years, but always suspected they weren't suited to our climate as they never lived past infancy. Thanks to this year's early heatwaves this one has finally thrived and I'm really pleased - they're much less watery and more tasty than your ordinary courgette, and the flower is incredibly robust and very much part of the fruit, so I'll be using these to experiment with fried courgette flowers as they're normally a bit crap with normal ones. The slices are also pretty, like little cogs. Never thought I'd be so excited over a courgette, and yet... Anyone else grow them?

Thought I'd seek some expert opinions - my other two plants in the same bed are doing fine but this guy has gone really yellow in comparison. What should I do to rectify?

Already eaten about a kilo of strawbs, made three jars of jam and harvested another 1.3kg this evening, and it'll keep going for a good few weeks still if it's anything like last year. Not sure what I'm doing to deserve such a bounty, but it's obviously the right thing! All from a 1m x 2m patch.