This year we decided to grow our courgettes from seed rather than from seedlings. The first of the crop have been lovely & tasty – and by the looks of things we’ve got a lot more about to come:
We have been picking them when they are much smaller than the ones you would buy at the fruit & vege shop on the advice of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – if they’re bigger than your finger they’re good to go!
Extra for experts: there are tasty-sounding recipes to use your glut – should you be lucky enough to have one – in Hugh’s article over at the Guardian.
Now, if only our tomatoes would be a bit more forthcoming, we’d be able to make some kind of chutney…