Midnight
£2.50
A courgette with spineless leaf stalks, producing dark green fruit that are longer and thinner than other varieties.
Description
Cucurbita pepo
Hybrid.
A good-yielding courgette producing dark green fruit that tend to be longer and thinner than other varieties. The tidy plants have a growth habit that is nominally bushy, though the main stem can grow over 80cm long by the autumn. The leaves are smooth rather than prickly, and the fruit are easy to spot among the foliage – both of which make it easier to harvest Midnight compared to other varieties.
When all its traits are totted up, Midnight is, indeed, a special courgette.
Number of seeds per pack: 10
Additional information
| Comment on growth habit | Defender courgette is normally described as having a bushy – as opposed to trailing – growth habit. Strictly speaking, this isn’t true. In 2024, we grew four plants of Defender as part of a comparison trial being conducted on our nursery in West Dorset. By the end of the season, growth habit was clearly more trailing than bushy. We did some measurements on one of the plants, and the results were as follows: • A very obvious main stem measured 1.6m long. In the normal course of events, Defender plants start out as bushy, and we guess they begin ‘running’ about mid-season. |
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