An easy, early and flavourful zucchini. And productive! You will want to find a few new friends to share your zucchini with:)
The bushy plants are compact (about 3 ft x 3ft) and easy to manage for a zucchini. It has beautiful glossy dark green skin and creamy white flesh.
Black Beauty was a 1957 All American Selections winner. It was developed at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station by John Scarchuk. In an interview with The New York Times in 1983, Mr Scarchuk recounted the 6 All American Selections he had won over the course of his plant breeding career, including Dark Opal basil, Candlelight pepper and Table King acorn squash (for which he spent 15 years making crosses). When he was interviewed in 1983, he was 70 years old and still planted over 200 different plant varieties a year and was still breeding new varieties. From the story:
“Beginning this month, Mr. Scarchuk will start spending 40 to 50 hours a week with his seedlings, a schedule he maintains throughout the summer with transplanting, weeding, feeding and harvesting.
”It makes my wife kind of mad,” he said with a grin. ”She thinks we should be going places during the summer, but I never have any spare time.”
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How to plant: Zucchini seeds are easy to start indoors. Start seeds indoors about 3 weeks before the last frost (for us that is the beginning of May). Once seedlings emerge, place in a sunny spot and wait until the end of May/early June to transplant.
Within Canada only shipping on zucchini seeds, thank you.
