I reckon if you gave me a blindfold taste test I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between my marrow-sized courgette and a marrow... and I've grown both in the past.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
You are being perverse @war garden 572. Zucchini is Italian - adopted by the USA. Courgette is French - adopted by the Brits. They are the same thing. grow one too big and it becomes a marrow, in whichever language.
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In my humble opinion, zucchini is the Italian word for courgette which name the English use. I think courgettes & marrow are of same family just a different shape. Nature is so amazing don’t you think giving us all these choices - Charles Darwin got it right all those years ago! Im so looking forward to seeing my “Shooting Stars” climbing yellow courgettes & my “Summer Holiday” round, yellow, striped courgettes develop & look forward even more to eating them!
Obelixx try reading what wrote again I said zucchini and marrows are not same. the term Courgette is used mostly for small immature squash of many types.
Indeed. Just enjoy what you're growing @julia.hall2461, and heed the advice from people who are experienced with veg growing in this country. Those Summer Holiday ones look good - could be used in all sorts of ways too. I expect they'd be good roasted, or stuffed as @Obelixx describes. Good luck with them anyway
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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those are zucchini not marrows.
courgette is just an immature squash.
are not same. the term Courgette is used mostly for small
immature squash of many types.
and that there is not just ‘one truth’.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just enjoy what you're growing @julia.hall2461, and heed the advice from people who are experienced with veg growing in this country.
Those Summer Holiday ones look good - could be used in all sorts of ways too. I expect they'd be good roasted, or stuffed as @Obelixx describes.
Good luck with them anyway
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...