How to grow Courgette (Latino F1)

Cucurbita pepo

🥕 Vegetable 🌱 Grown each year

Courgette Latino F1 is a high-performing variety known for its exceptional taste and versatility. It features sleek, dark green skin and an elongated shape, making it a visually appealing addition to your garden and dining table. Boasting a delicious flavour and tender texture, its firm flesh has a mild, slightly nutty taste. This courgette retains its shape and imparts a delightful crunch whether sliced, diced, or spiralised. A nutritional powerhouse, it's low in calories, high in dietary fibre, and packed with essential vitamins and minerals. Easy to grow, it offers robust growth and high yield potential, thriving in sunny locations and well-drained, humus-rich soil. Ideal for grilling, roasting, frying, or adding a crunch to salads.

At a glance: Sow early May to mid May, harvest from mid June.

When to sow, plant and harvest

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Sow outdoors

Harvest

Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.

Growing Courgette (Latino F1): what it needs

Light: Full sun · 6+ hours a day
Watering: Regularly, keep soil moist but avoid wetting fruit
Soil: Rich, well-draining, humus-rich · pH 6.0–7.0
Spacing: 90cm apart
In pots: Grows well in containers
Feeding: Feed every 14 days with a potash-rich fertiliser once established.
Harvest: About 60 days from sowing
Hardiness: USDA zones 3–10
Difficulty: Easy

Step by step

Early May – mid May · 2 weeks after the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors (optional)
Dig a 30cm square hole, fill with well-rotted manure, and cloche the area a week before sowing. Mound soil, plant 2 seeds 2.5cm deep into the mound, and cloche again until seedlings grow. Remove the weaker seedling later. Seed will not germinate until temperature is consistently above 13°C.
5–8 days after “Sow Seeds Indoors” · Early May
Check Germination
Seedlings should emerge in 5-8 days. Ensure consistent moisture and warmth.
14 days after “Transplant Outdoors” · Late May
Provide Ongoing Care
As hungry feeders, feed them every 14 days with a potash-rich fertiliser. Keep well watered but do not wet the fruit. Ensure a sheltered sunny spot out of strong winds.
30–90 days after “Provide Ongoing Care” · Mid June – mid August
Harvest Courgettes
Pick fruit regularly to prolong cropping when they are about 7cm long. The flowers can also be picked before this. Harvest from July to October.