Courgettes
Courgettes: when to sow and plant out, how to water and feed, and how to keep the fruit coming all summer.
Courgettes at a glance
- Spacing
- 90 cm between rows, 90 cm apart in the row, about 1 m² per plant (RHS, BBC Gardeners' World)
- Sow
- Indoors in April or May
- Plant
- After the last frost, usually from late May
- Harvest
- July to October
- Watering
- Constantly moist, at the base of the plant
- Difficulty
- Easy
Growing and care
Courgettes through the year
Every job for growing courgettes on one chart. Click a row to open the full guide.
SowPlantCareHarvest
In this section we use these sources: Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, Met Office. Each page lists its own sources at the bottom.