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Zucchino da Fiore / San Pasquale - Edible Flower (146-57)
Product Code:
146-57
$6.00 - $45.00
Zucchino da Fiore. This is a dual-purpose variety that produces delicious zucchini if the flowers are pollinated. It is also the preferred variety for squash blossoms, which are popular in Italian cuisine. They are often stuffed with cheese, breaded, and fried for an appetizer, or sliced into ribbons on salads and casseroles. If you want only flowers, cover the plants with row cover to prevent insect pollination and pick the blossoms every day or two. They are at their best first thing in the morning when they just begin to open. Plant is a runner (like most varieties that produce many flowers) so give 5 feet or so between hills. Transplants: Start seed in individual containers 2-3 weeks before final frost date and transplant carefully to avoid root damage when soil is warm. Direct seed: Grow in hills, 5-6 seeds in a 7-8 inch circle and thin to 2-3 plants. Space hills 5 feet apart. Or sow 3 seeds per foot in a row and thin to one plant per 12 inches. Space rows 6 feet apart. 3 gram packet - about 25 seeds.
Zucchino da Fiore. This is a dual-purpose variety that produces delicious zucchini if the flowers are pollinated. It is also the preferred variety for squash blossoms, which are popular in Italian cuisine. They are often stuffed with cheese, breaded, and fried for an appetizer, or sliced into ribbons on salads and casseroles. If you want only flowers, cover the plants with row cover to prevent insect pollination and pick the blossoms every day or two. They are at their best first thing in the morning when they just begin to open. Plant is a runner (like most varieties that produce many flowers) so give 5 feet or so between hills. Transplants: Start seed in individual containers 2-3 weeks before final frost date and transplant carefully to avoid root damage when soil is warm. Direct seed: Grow in hills, 5-6 seeds in a 7-8 inch circle and thin to 2-3 plants. Space hills 5 feet apart. Or sow 3 seeds per foot in a row and thin to one plant per 12 inches. Space rows 6 feet apart. 3 gram packet - about 25 seeds.
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Flowers AND Zucchini
Excellent variety! The text indicates some small zucchinis can be produced. I have been growing ten of these plants, five of them for flowers only, the rest for zucchinis. The zucchinis will grow up to medium size and still have minimal seeds, so this is a very versatile variety where I live, near Boston. But you probably don't need ten of these plants! I think this will be the only zucchini variety I'll need going forward, maybe six plants next year.
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A Spring Floral Feast
Growing these blossoms in my garden was such a delight! They are as beautiful as they are tasty, and so easy to grow! By planting just a few seeds in my garden, they produced some beautiful plants that would yield more fresh blossoms than I could handle every day! I have recipes and pictures of my Zucchino da Fiore pictured here: http://www.twohotpotatoes.com/spring-floral-feast/ I will be planting these seeds in my garden every year from here on out!