The constant gardener
emember those chilly days of spring when courgette prices were sky-high and we dreamt of an abundance in our garden? And now it’s an over-abundance, and a tiring moral compulsion to waste not and pick regularly before the delicate fruits turn into mighty marrows. Eating the stunning yellow flowers is a welcome alternative. The prudent will choose male flowers, which don’t produce fruit. Females are identifiable by a swollen stem. Cut flowers close to the head of the flower and don’t cut all the flowers off a vine – males are needed to
