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No regrets with your courgettes
Gardening with MAT COWARD
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A SUCCESSFUL courgette plant can take up a fair amount of space on the vegetable patch by midsummer, so if you’re short of room you could try growing them vertically instead of horizontally.
This approach involves a bit more intervention than growing them on the flat does, and some cultivars of courgette respond better to the treatment than others — one called Black Forest, for instance, is particularly recommended as a climber.
But if you don’t mind the extra labour, it can be a useful way of getting more food per square foot of ground as well as minimising the risk of a rampant courg smothering neighbouring crops.
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