How to make courgette and fennel salad with crispy capers

Courgettes grow easily, with little interference from slugs, and you’ll more than likely end up with a glut – luckily they’re versatile enough to be widely used in the kitchen

Switch to a plant-based cheese to make this dish vegan (Photography by Julia Platt Leonard)

Plant a courgette and you’re sorted. They earn their spot in the veg patch and seem to be the one thing the slugs and snails won’t devour.

Their blossoms are an electric yellow-orange and beg to be deep-fried.

Best of all, once they get going, they’ll keep you stocked for the summer.