Just Seed Courgette - Tromboncino Albenga - 20 Seeds

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It has to be easy to grow. This quality has multiple layers: It must require minimal care and cultivation; it must also have few pests or diseases. The skin is edible as well – a bit tougher than zucchini skin, but nowhere near winter squash toughness or even delicate squash or something in which people tell you the skin is edible but the texture’s tough and awful… All this means that tromboncini are really, really easy to work with. A single tromboncino plant can produce six fruits enough fruit to feed two people for a whole summer. Each fruit can weigh in at 800g to 1kg. How to grow them?

For some peoplethe flavour is just too bland. The flesh also has a higher water content than most pumpkins, making it great for fritters, steaming or mashing but too softfor roasting. Tromboncini have very pale green skin, sometimes almost pale yellow or tan, sometimes so light they look almost white. They tend to have varied faint white stripes like some zucchini varieties as well. When green and young, it cooks up sweeter than a zucchini; later in the season, when it’s golden and mature, it tastes more like a butternut squash. The really nice thing about this variety is that all the seeds form in the bulbous part at the end, the way seeds all collect in the center of hard squash. That means you’ve got this whole long length of fruit with no seeds.Well, first of all, this tasty vining moschata grows like nobody’s business. Developing multiple stems, it will ramp all over the place, especially on anything it can climb, like the garden fence (good) or your young apple trees (bad). And on those gargantuan vines it will grow literally dozens of giant fruits, many topping 5′ in length. No, we’re not exaggerating! Let the vines grow extra roots: The vines of tromboncino tend to root at the nodes (the part of the stem where the leavesemerge). These roots can provide the plant with extra nutrients and water. Train the vine along the ground in front of the trellis before letting it grow upwards; the nodes lying on the ground are likely to form ‘bonus’ roots.

All parts of the squash are edible, including its seeds. Here are the most common but delicious ways of using tromboncinos: The outer skin will harden up and they can be then stored in a cool dry place into winter like a winter squash. The courgettes are used in recipes just like normal courgettes when small & young or like squashes when hardened off for winter. Sow your tromboncino seeds on their edge in trays of moist seed compost. Keep the trays on a sunny windowsill or in a heated propagator. The seeds should germinate within seven to ten days if kept between 15ºC and 20ºC.

Tromboncino in the Kitchen 

Sow the climbing courgette seeds late March through April under glass for growing in the greenhouse, or late April through May to transplant outdoors. Seeds can also be sown direct outdoors, in a finely prepared bed, from late May. Sow some of the courgette seeds every two weeks during the season up to until early July, this way you will have a great supply of courgettes till late autumn. Keep the last sown plants in the greenhouse to extend the season. Cover the bottom of a casserole dish with olive oil and place slices of garlic to cover the bottom of the dish.

Tromboncinoflowers are also edible and can be stuffed just like zucchini flowers, with rice and herbs, ricotta and lemon zest.

If you’re planning to enter a vegetable growing contest, have many mouths to feed or are just after a conversation starter in your garden, tromboncino will not disappoint. What is Tromboncino? Use the long thin section at the top of the tromboncino fruit to cook with; it’s seedless and has a lovely sweet flavour. The rounded end contains seeds, but the flesh around them is just as tasty. Use a spoon to remove the seeds before cooking. Treat your tromboncino like a regular squash or as a courgette substitute in dishes. Side dish: Cube the squash and sauté it with olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper. This simple side dish makes a great addition to summer tables. You can also sprinkle goat cheese on top to make it fancier. If vines are left to sprawl on the ground, the giant fruit gracefully curl in on themselves as if they’re curling around something, sometimes completing an entire circle. Alternatively, with the help of gravity, if allowed to hang from a trellis they will grow long and straight. This is one veg that’s at home in the novelty vegetable section at your local exhibition! Why Grow Tromboncino? Your vines can be allowed to run free on the ground, or you can train them to climb on a trellis. But make sure it’s strong enough to support the weight of the fruit. The plants produce both male flowers and female flowers, so pollination is easy. The pre-adolescent fruit is located behind the female flowers.