Zucchini Black Beauty seeds

Black Beauty Zucchini. Introduced to the public in 1957, this historic variety won the prestigious All-America Selections award and remains the definitive gold standard for home gardeners and market producers globally. If you are seeking an incredibly reliable, fast-maturing zucchini that pumps out an abundance of high-quality fruit from early summer right through to the first autumn frost, this is the ultimate choice.

Black Beauty produces beautifully straight, smooth, and slender fruits featuring a glossy, deep forest-green skin that appears almost black in the shade. Beneath its dark exterior lies a crisp, creamy-white flesh that is exceptionally tender, moist, and fine-grained. Harvested at its peak flavour when fruits are roughly 15–20cm long, it boasts a subtle, nutty, and sweet profile. It is the ultimate kitchen workhorse—superb for slicing raw into crisp garden salads, spiralising into low-carb "zoodles," flash-frying in olive oil, tossing into rich summer ratatouilles, or grating into moist, sweet backyard baking.

Why you’ll love it:

• Incredible High Yields: A highly productive variety that rewards frequent picking with a continuous supply of fresh fruit all season.

• Compact Bush Habit: Grows on a space-saving open bush rather than long sprawling vines, making it perfect for smaller garden beds, raised layouts, or large courtyard pots.

• Premium Texture & Flavour: Tender, seedless, and never watery when harvested young, offering a far superior flavour to supermarket varieties.

• Edible Blossom Bonus: Produces massive, golden zucchini flowers that are a gourmet delicacy when stuffed with ricotta and lightly fried.

• Easy & Fast to Grow: Superb, fast-maturing variety that begins producing its first harvest in just 7 weeks from planting.

Growing Information (Australia):

• Scientific Name: Cucurbita pepo 'Black Beauty'

• Growth Habit: Bush variety. Forms a compact, upright, open bush structure rather than climbing or sprawling.

• Sowing Season:

  • Temperate/Cool (e.g., Tasmania): Late Spring to Mid-Summer (October to January, once all risk of frost has passed and soil is warm).

  • Subtropical: Early Spring through to Late Summer.

  • Tropical: Year-round (avoiding peak mid-summer wet seasons).

• Position: Full sun. Requires rich, fertile, heavily composted soil with high organic matter.

• Sowing Depth: 2cm deep.

• Spacing: 70–90cm apart between plants.

• Germination: 5–10 days at an ideal soil temperature of 21°C–30°C.

• Harvest: 45–50 days from sowing.

• Gardener’s Tip: Zucchini plants produce separate male and female flowers on the same bush (the female flower features a miniature zucchini at its base). If your early blossoms wither and fall off without producing fruit, it is usually due to a lack of local pollinators. You can easily hand-pollinate them by plucking a fully open male flower, peeling back its yellow petals, and gently dusting its pollen over the center of the female blossom in the morning. For the absolute best texture, harvest fruits daily using a sharp knife when they are young and tender.

 10 seeds per pack

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