Courgettes

I'm looking for some advice, currently I have small courgette plant (Venus F1 hybrid) seedlings growing, 3 per small pot, growing indoors. At what stage is it okay to transplant them into a larger pot outdoors? How well spaced should they be?

 

We grew courgettes last year, started them in pots and moved to the vegetable patch in late May / early June as I recall - this is in sunny Essex, but I would have thought even in Aberdeen that would be ok. The leaves do grow pretty big so I would have thought you should be looking at 15" - 18" apart? They seemed pretty hardy, we had about 8 plants and courgettes for dinner every night for about 6 months!

 

Thanks Deserter, I repotted them into individual pots last night but I think I may need to repot again before putting them outside as they seem to be growing very quicky! Yes, I think that we'll be fed up of courgettes by the end of the season. Courgette soup, curried courgettes...... anyone think of any good courgette recipes?

 

Try them lightly fried in a beer batter. Or on skewers with other veg and meat on the BBQ.

As Deserter says they grow into big plants. I would guess that one in an 8 or 10 inch pot is what you should aim for. They also need quite a lot of water particularly if you have them in pots.
I put ours outside (under a cloche) about three weeks ago and will be removing the cloche in the next couple of days.
Watch out for wind damage to the stems when young. Small sticks will stop the plants whipping about in the wind