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  • M Donovan on Poisonous courgette warning

    08/08/2020
    I have made 3 separate batches of courgette & mint soup which I have made on a number of occasions...

  • Karen Shead on Poisonous courgette warning

    05/08/2020
    I am feeling awful after eating a home grown courgette. I only ate a small piece but the other veg...

  • Sue Sokal on Poisonous courgette warning

    03/08/2020
    Not a member of your group, (I live in Nottingham) but came across this site this evening when looking up...

  • Lovern Brown on Poisonous courgette warning

    02/08/2020
    OMG, This was an hour of cold sweat, tears, stomach pain / gripe, violent diarrhoea and vomiting. I made pickled...

  • Holly on Poisonous courgette warning

    01/08/2020
    Oh dear, me too. Mr Fothergill seeds. The most bitter thing I’ve ever tasted. I gave a plant to my...

  • L Thomson on Poisonous courgette warning

    01/08/2020
    Just had to throw out a perfectly good meal as the courgettes were very bitter. Homegrown from Thomson & Morgan...

  • Emma Haselden on Poisonous courgette warning

    30/07/2020
    My family and I have just sat down to dinner with some home grown courgettes from a Fothergills packet and...

  • Penny Sills on Poisonous courgette warning

    29/07/2020
    I just cooked myself a pasta meal including courgettes. Ate a small piece of raw courgette just before serving my...

  • Linda Norton on Poisonous courgette warning

    29/07/2020
    Same here, roasted my corgettes in the oven, ate a tiny bit, so bitter and disgusting, hubby spat his out....

  • David Robertson on Poisonous courgette warning

    28/07/2020
    We bought our seeds in Inverness and were very proud of the results. Thankfully I decided to taste one piece...

  • Richard Allen on Poisonous courgette warning

    27/07/2020
    This happened to my 87 year old mother last week and she was violently ill and in agony and had...

  • Suzanne wood on Poisonous courgette warning

    26/07/2020
    Just had a bitter courgette think it was fothergill seeds

  • Jane Howe on Poisonous courgette warning

    25/07/2020
    I have used a packet of Courgette (Zucchini) that came with a gardening magazine at the beginning of Lock Down,...

  • Barbara Stevens on Poisonous courgette warning

    25/07/2020
    My husband and I have both just spent the whole night being ill with severe diarrhoea and stomach cramps and...

  • Phil Crool on Poisonous courgette warning

    25/07/2020
    Guess what, my wife and I have had severe diarrhoea since the early hours of this morning, did stuffed courgettes...

  • Jo Jones on Contact us

    23/07/2020
    Thank you for this extensive post and warning. We sat down to supper on Sunday - chicken , homegrown tarragon,...

  • Jeremy Bugler on Poisonous courgette warning

    23/07/2020
    Update: the trading standards officer handling this problem at Mr Fothergill's is Nigel Howlet who can be reached at tradingstandards@suffolk.co.uk....

  • Angela on Poisonous courgette warning

    22/07/2020
    Me and my husband both ate half each of a courgette from our neighbour who leaves his excess crops for...

  • Sally on Poisonous courgette warning

    21/07/2020
    I was ill for four days after eating beautiful sweet young non stressed courgettes. I did not know it was...

  • Trevor Grant on Poisonous courgette warning

    21/07/2020
    My wife and I were very ill having had a meal at home we didn't know that it was the...

  • Helena on Poisonous courgette warning

    20/07/2020
    Oh my goodness I can’t believe I’m reading this. My family thought I was mad as I kept blaming the...

  • Lisa on Poisonous courgette warning

    20/07/2020
    Thank goodness for this post. I was so confused why the dinner that I had lovingly prepared from home grown...

  • Chris Buffrey on Poisonous courgette warning

    20/07/2020
    Had exactly the same problem. Unwell over the weekend after eating Courgettes from our garden on Friday. Now digging up...

  • Frank Bridgett on Poisonous courgette warning

    20/07/2020
    My seeds were from Wilko,s.I can not believe one small courgette could taste so bitter. It took a couple of...
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