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Thoughts on yellow courgettes

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  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I raise my beds as the back is not good, so anything in the ground has to be able to look after itself.😁
  • tessagardenbarmytessagardenbarmy Posts: 346
    I've grown  Gold Rush courgettes the last two years and the yields have been amazing
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I've got three types of courgette this yea one of which is yellow. I have Black beauty, Grisette de provence, and the yellow "Golden Zucchini"
    Black beauty are hugely productive huge plants with dark green fruit, 2 days from flower to picking and 2 more days to horrible overgrown chicken food
    Grisette are small plants small fruit in a light green
    Golden are in the middle, they have bright yellow fruit, and they are bright yellow as soon as the flowers start to form. They take 4-5 days to come ready from flower set. but then they are really firm for another 4-5 days on the plant much more forgiving than either of the other two.
    Yield wise I've had 2kg a plant from BB 500g from grisette and 700g from the yellow so far this year.

    Those plant are in a pollytunnel I have more outside which are only just starting to produce flowers, they are a little behind your yellow one I think. The only thing that worries me about your plant is that to me those little clusters do not look like flowers at all.



  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    That's what threw me too.  Not like any variety I've had before.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Do they look as if they could be side shoots and then the flowers and fruit will appear on them?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    No they are definitely flowers of a sort but no tuba forming behind the flower like my other ones in the bottom picture.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Probably male flowers then ... as I said the first ones often are, particularly in very warm spells.  Let us know how things develop  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Will do 😁
  • GardenGrower11GardenGrower11 Posts: 312
    purplerallim said:
    Yes yellow Tom's too. I have Alicante, Gardeners Delight ,Sun baby (yellows) and Black Russian plus Femspot and Hana (mini) cucumbers in the greenhouse. Outside both types of courgette, French beans, sweetcorn,carrots, red spring onions and raspberries. So much more I can do now.

    Nice list :)
    I've got some Yellow Scallop courgettes this year, as well as some more standard green ones. And the Sunbaby tomatoes did really well for me last year. I've got that one plus a few others of all different colours this year.

    Here are my Sunbaby from last year:


  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    All of that in an 8×10 greenhouse and a three foot square area outside which is twice as much as I had before. Can't wait to knock down an old shed ,6×8, to have more room outside.😁
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