Courgette
Ortolano di Faenza courgette
Ortolano di Faenza courgette: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Ortolano di Faenza, also called Ortolana di Faenza, is an Italian courgette variety. It belongs to Cucurbita pepo, a species in the Cucurbitaceae family. Its bush habit distinguishes it from squashes with long trailing stems. Leaves and fruits are grouped around a plant that can still become substantial: a bush variety is not necessarily a miniature one. This outline helps explain how the plant occupies a vegetable bed, without confusing it with a climbing squash.The fruits are relatively short, elongated to oval, with a slightly swollen end that can give them a gently club-shaped appearance. Their pale green skin has stripes or darker markings, with some variation in intensity. The surface may be lightly ribbed. These features set the variety apart from uniformly dark green courgettes and round varieties. Shape, size and colour change as a fruit develops, so they do not describe one identical measurement for every courgette on…
