Black Beauty Zucchini
Heirloom variety: Black Beauty
- Taste
- Classic, clean zucchini flavor — mild and grassy, best picked under eight inches.
- In season (Fayette, zone 6b)
- June – September
- Good source of
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin B6
- Potassium
- Fiber
An heirloom from the 1920s and still the standard by which zucchini is judged. The skin is a deep glossy green-black and the flesh is greenish-white and fine-grained. Prolific to a fault — one plant will keep a kitchen busy all summer, which is exactly why zucchini bread exists.