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Zucchini is a vegetable that makes for delicious summer meals. When young, it can even be eaten raw! Learn to grow and harvest it at the right time.

Twirled spaghetti coated in glossy pale green sauce with golden-edged courgette coins, torn mint and marjoram, grated pecorino and lemon zest in a wide ceramic bowl

Collapsed Courgette Spaghetti with Marjoram, Lemon and Pecorino

Pasta & Grains
Stack of golden zucchini and sweetcorn fritters flecked with green herbs, topped with a spoon of creamy herbed yogurt and dill sprigs, lemon wedge alongside

Zucchini Ribbon and Sweetcorn Fritters with Herbed Yogurt

Breakfast & Brunch
A pale green chilled zucchini soup in a shallow bowl, topped with golden toasted almonds and chopped green herbs, with a drizzle of olive oil catching the light.

Chilled Zucchini and Almond Soup with Toasted Herbs

Soup
Fresh courgettes harvested from a summer garden piled on a wooden table

Your Courgette Glut Is a Recipe Waiting to Happen — Do This Now

Recipes
Courgette plant with abundant yellow male flowers but no developing fruit on the vine

Your Courgettes Are Flowering But Setting No Fruit — Here’s Why

The Vegetable Patch
Steps to start a vegetable patch

6 steps to start a vegetable patch. No more, no less!

The Vegetable Patch
Ideas for outdoor kitchens

Set up an outdoor kitchen for friendly summer barbecues

Special reports
Crop rotation in a vegetable patch

Rotate crops in the vegetable patch

The Vegetable Patch
vegetable patch in fall with spinach growing in the foreground

Life goes on in the vegetable patch

The Vegetable Patch
Raised incredible edible garden bed in a city

Incredible edible, new urban vegetable patches

Special reports
Three square-foot vegetable beds

Planting an organic square-foot vegetable patch

The Vegetable Patch
Climate zones in France to guide the planting calendar in the vegetable patch

Regional planting calendar to maximize your vegetable patch – MetroFrance Edition

The Vegetable Patch
Rows of lettuce and radish sowed and planted in a spring vegetables patch.

Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch

The Vegetable Patch

Zucchini growing tutorial – Smart Tips (+ video)

N&G TV
Vegetables that help detox the body in spring

Spring Detox Plate: Seasonal Foods, Drinks and Habits at Winter’s End

Health
zucchini

Zucchini, a delicious vegetable that is easy to grow

The Vegetable Patch
A flower-filled garden bed in July

July garden tasks for a fulfilling summer

Month after month
Zucchini health benefits

Zucchini: traditional uses, kitchen ideas and skin tips

Health
Powdery mildew symptoms and treatments

Avoiding and treating powdery mildew

Treating diseases and pests