I could swear I'd removed all the courgettes from my (green fruited) plant before going away for 3 weeks last autumn, but came back to four large marrows, one weighing in at 2.6kg... I think I'll try yellow ones this year!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
@Liriodendron - I've never left the yellows for too long - too greedy if nothing else but I don't think they get quite as "carried away" as the green ones. @war garden 572 - it's just descriptive - huge courgette = marrow May not be technically correct but doesn't matter in this context.
I’ve had same issue with “not seeing” green courgettes & they grew to be supersized 😂🤣- I think yellow ones are the answer! I’ve just bought the Shooting Star variety
@war garden 572 - clearly a language barrier. In the USA you use the Italian word zucchini for what we call courgettes. Ours is a French word meaning small courge or marrow/squash. When it's small it's a courgette and when it's big it's a marrow.
Traditionally, Brits grew marrows for stuffing. In recent decades we've actively grown courgettes and when they escape our notice and become zeppelins/marrows, we're stuffed.
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Obelixx it is not just length and thickness that makes a zucchini and marrow different. spaghetti squash for example is a marrows and no one confuses them with zucchini. the difference in over all shape not size that makes a marrow and zucchini different.
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not four marrows since marrows different type
squash.
@war garden 572 - it's just descriptive - huge courgette = marrow
Traditionally, Brits grew marrows for stuffing. In recent decades we've actively grown courgettes and when they escape our notice and become zeppelins/marrows, we're stuffed.
and marrow different. spaghetti squash for example is a marrows
and no one confuses them with zucchini. the difference in over all
shape not size that makes a marrow and zucchini different.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.