Did You Know..? A Recent survey revealed courgettes (or zucchini, depending where you live) are Britain’s 10th favorite vegetable.

Mexican’s prefer eating the flowers of the courgette plant to eating the vegetable itself.

Zucchini are easy to grow from seed. However, the plants require plenty of bee activity for cross-pollination from male to female flowers, without which the veggies will begin to grow, but then wither and die.

My towering bean stalk with its abundance of bright red flowers has been a great attraction for bees to my plot this summer, not sure how the courgettes would have faired otherwise.

Each courgette plant produces both male and female flowers. The male grows on a long slim stem, whereas the female blossoms on the end of each developing zucchini.

Both male and female flowers are edible.

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