Indoor Discount offers you quality seeds, carefully selected to guarantee rapid germination and vigorous plants
Grow your own Verte de Milan zucchini with our top-quality seeds. Recognized by their bright green skin and tender flesh, Verte de Milan zucchini are a must-have for any vegetable garden. Their delicate flavor and crunchy texture make them a versatile ingredient for a variety of dishes, from stir-fries to summer grilling. Our seeds are carefully selected to guarantee robust, productive plants, allowing you to harvest an abundance of zucchini throughout the growing season.
These zucchinis, grown from our premium quality seeds, offer much more than just kitchen ingredients. They represent a commitment to healthy, sustainable eating, while offering a rewarding gardening experience. By growing your own Verte de Milan zucchinis, you can enjoy the freshness and flavour of your harvest while contributing to a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle.
Organically grown (AB)
Sowing: April / June
Harvest: June / August
Zucchini Verte de Milan, also known as Black Beauty, is an extremely productive, non-runner variety, distinguished by its earliness. It produces magnificent dark-green fruits measuring between 18 and 20 cm in length.
For successful sowing, start in April, using pots placed in a well-lit spot, with a minimum temperature of 12°C, necessary for seed germination. Place the seeds on edge and water gently to keep the soil moist but not excessively so, to avoid rotting. Place the pots near a light source for optimum growth.
During cultivation, transplant seedlings outdoors in mid-May, spacing them one metre apart in all directions to leave enough room for non-runners. Water regularly and enrich the soil with compost. Pinch the stems to stimulate development, hoe and weed to keep the soil clean, and mulch around the plants to conserve moisture and limit weeds. In summer, water at the foot of the plants without wetting the foliage to avoid disease.
Zucchini Verte de Milan goes well with beans and cabbage, but avoid planting it near potatoes.
Your plants may fail to produce flowers or fruit, a common problem with cucurbits. Hot weather can encourage the production of male flowers to the detriment of the female flowers needed for fruiting. What's more, a lack of pollination due to a shortage of pollinating insects can prevent fruit formation. To overcome this problem, attract pollinators by planting melliferous flowers near your zucchinis.
Zucchini are harvested around two months after sowing. For optimum flavor, harvest them young; smaller zucchini are less bitter than those that have grown too much. Enjoy these delicious fruits in your dishes all season long.
- Height: 100 cm
- Color: Green
- Life cycle: Annual
- Type: Reproducible seeds
- Plant habit: Non-hollow
- Soil: Moist
- Germination temperature: 18 to 20 °C
- Sowing depth: Equal to seed size
- Sowing technique: In 3-seed stacks
- Sowing container: In bucket / In the ground
- Watering frequency: Moderate / Daily
- Exposure: Sun
- Foliage: Deciduous
- Hardiness: Frosty
- Planting: In the ground
- Spacing: 100 cm
- Seed emergence: 10 to 15 days
- Sowing to harvest: 50 to 60 days
