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Courgettes 2021

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    tui34 said:
    Hi - I was 9 @Dovefromabove and the courgettes we were eating then, were marrows with white sauce!! Yuk yuk yuk!
    Precisely @tui34 .... although there's a lot to be said for a buttery baked stuffed marrow ... called Mock Goose by Ma.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Dovefromabove  That prompted me to look into my Farmer's Federation books of my Nana coz we had stuffed marrow, but the recipe for Mock Goose is strangely enough close enough to a dish I do with potatoes and cheeses and stock called Gratin Savoyard and I think it is in a Robert Carrier cookbook.  Quite yummy on a cold day.k
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @tui34 ...  I think there were several Mock Geese around during and after WW2 ... certainly stuffed and roasted Ox Heart was also called Mock Goose in our family.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I can remember my sister [when a fairly new mum and no money] decided to grow a few crops, courgettes being one of them.
    After a couple of months, they were all sick to death of the sight of them, never mind trying to find ways of eating them  :D
    I think that's why I've never been tempted. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited August 2021
    At some ill-defined stage courgettes grow into marrow.  Somewhere along the way they lose all their flavour.  At the end of the season, or when I can't keep up the harvesting, I eat my "zucchini" as marrows.  With flavour from Worcestershire sauce and black pepper.

    Dove:  I was an early adopter, but perhaps it is time to move on.  All Green Bush for next purchase; I still have a lot of zucchini seed to get through.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    'All green bush' was excellent for us last year. Tried a different variety this year and it's nowhere near as strong and productive. Though it's been rubbish weather for courgettes this year it must be said!
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