Yellow courgette

Hi All

Normaly grow green courgettes and over the years have tried several diffrent varieties of yellow courgette's but I have always found them not to produce that many or in a great quantity and suffer from Mildew realy badly as so bad as the leaves rattle so dry.

I always try out diffrent toms every year pink girl which is a new one to me still under trial , so when I saw Courgette Solei F1 "produces fruit by the score" and mildew resistent I thought yes got to have those , any way just as bad as the rest I have grown so wont be trying that again

Get my seeeds from Plants Of Distinction wonderful selection of heritage and hard to get hold off seeds, as I grew Santa (toms) for years , and now its realy hard to get hold off

Spruce

 

About a quarter of my courgettes are yellow ones, and no prizes for guessing which variety have yellowing leaves on!

I like them in bright sweet & sours with home grown mini yellow tomatoes, yellow carrots, etc. with shop bought yellow peppers and pineapple chunks, and I also use them raw cut into thin strips for dips.

 

Yellow courgettes? can't go wrong with Athena, very prolific cropper

 

From which seed supplier(s?) can they be obtained?

Green courgette seeds are normally so cheap that I don't bother isolating flowers, fertilizing and seed saving from them, but thought it might be worthwhile with yellow ones, especially as they're the ones that quite often give me most problems germinating them and I like to have some back up seeds, but this year they all grew and I think I've got around a dozen plants.

 

Hi.

I've only ever grown yellow types, but I have to admit, they don't crop as I would expect. I'd always put it down to me doing something wrong. I'll have to try a 'regular' type next year. I guess the only reason I chose yellow varieties was the colour.

Cheers...Freddy.

 

I've been growing 'Jemmer', a yellow courgette from Kings seeds for several years now and found it very reliable.
I'm always slightly dubious when something is called 'resistant'. In my experience this often means it simply takes a bit longer to succumb to a particular pest or disease than other varieties.
It's a clever marketing ploy in my opinion; 'resistant' is not the same as 'proof'.

 

I've tried this one, amongst others, this year. The plant seems good and the courgette is tasty. It's almost yellow. ;0)

Seeds of Italy - COURGETTE RUGOSA FRIULANA

 

Very, very glad that none of mine have been that ugly. Yuk.

 

I did wonder if they needed peeling, as with knobbly cucumbers.

 

25% of my cougettes are yellow ones, and here's my last couple of pickings:





There was actually a third picking, but no yellow ones in it. Don't think I'll be saving any seeds from these yellow cougettes.

 

Nice pickings mine are useless this year , the foligae is white on all leaves on all the plants , xtra feed and water but it hasnt helped yet

Spruce

 

And here they are on the left, with green courgettes with green leaves on the right:

 

We call the yellow ones here---Summer Squash, and the green ones Zucchini. I believe the same. I love buying equal amounts to saute up with garlic, olive oil and a tomato. Such a lovely site to eat, and yummy. I do not peel either of them.

Yep Spruce, regarding your picture. Thats what they look like here. Except I prefer them smaller, seem to taste better for the saute method. I would use the larger ones if making a Zucchini bread.
Would love to run across just the flowers and dip them in egg and a batter to deep fry, heard that is good.