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Yellow courgettes

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You've clearly never met a courgette de Nice @war garden 572.  Lovely round fruits, great for stuffing
    https://kokopelli-semences.fr/fr/p/P2113-Ronde-de-Nice#:~:text=La courgette de Nice, Cucurbita,la chair tendre et fondante
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • I’m growing these too
  • julia.hall2461 
    those are zucchini not marrows.
    courgette is just an immature squash. 
  • 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.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    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.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • 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. 
     
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2023
    @war garden 572 … that may well be the case where you live. It is not the case over here in the UK and Europe. 

    You really need to understand that your experience is not universal
    and that there is not just ‘one truth’.  

    Understanding that is a really  important part of everyone’s education. 

    It really is quite rude to tell other peoples that what they are doing is wrong, simply because it is different to what you do. 


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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Obelixx said:
    You are being perverse @war garden 572.  
    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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