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.
That may be how you differentiate but it is botanically incorrect, war garden.
Courgette/zucchini [same name for the same thing, of whatever shape] along with, for example, spaghetti squash, pattypan, acorn squash and most cultivars of jack-o-lantern pumpkins are all different cultivars of curcurbita pepa.
‘Marrow’ is simply a common name of English origin for the same members of c. pepa that are grown as a large vegetable rather than picked young. It has no botanical significance, it is not a different genus, species, family or cultivar. Therefore a zucchini and marrow are NOT different, the latter is just the a common name for the former grown bigger.
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Nollie thank you so much for your recommendation of the Summer Holiday courgettes! I grew a green variety (not round) last year which were a bit watery - I’ll be growing the yellow shooting star variety too - it’s a new climbing courgette which is ideal as I’ll be growing them up some obelisks
Oh for heaven's sake @war garden 572! I reckon your Harry's a duffer working on inadequate research and certainly a lack of personal observation!
A courgette's length depends on when you harvest it, not how far it will grow if left or missed. Given perfect growing conditions a courgette/zucchini will grow cylindrical and uniform width but given the vagaries of soil types, feeding, watering, light levels and temperature changes from one bed to another let alone another garden, country or continent there will be variations in length/width/bulbous swellings at one end or in the middle.
The advice over this side of the Atlantic is to pick at finger length for best taste and texture or tennis ball size for the round ones. Leave them any longer and they become more bland and risk escaping to become zeppelins aka marrows..
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Hi @Fairygirl. i was just trying to point out that courgettes are like conifers. They don't all grow to teh shapz and size in the books and certainly don't stop growing when they've reached "the right size". Old Harry may know more about curcubits than I ever will but he's just plain wrong about courgettes - or at least @war garden 572 s understanding of them from his readings.
I like the look of your round, yellow courgettes @julia.hall2461 and will keep an eye out for some round here.
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Courgette/zucchini [same name for the same thing, of whatever shape] along with, for example, spaghetti squash, pattypan, acorn squash and most cultivars of jack-o-lantern pumpkins are all different cultivars of curcurbita pepa.
‘Marrow’ is simply a common name of English origin for the same members of c. pepa that are grown as a large vegetable rather than picked young. It has no botanical significance, it is not a different genus, species, family or cultivar. Therefore a zucchini and marrow are NOT different, the latter is just the a common name for the former grown bigger.
if don't like the correct botanical term contact Dr harry paris squash expert.
here is correct difference between a zucchini and marrow. from
The Compleat Squash by amy goldman
p 143
https://archive.org/details/compleatsquashpa0000gold/page/143/mode/1up?view=theater
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A courgette's length depends on when you harvest it, not how far it will grow if left or missed. Given perfect growing conditions a courgette/zucchini will grow cylindrical and uniform width but given the vagaries of soil types, feeding, watering, light levels and temperature changes from one bed to another let alone another garden, country or continent there will be variations in length/width/bulbous swellings at one end or in the middle.
The advice over this side of the Atlantic is to pick at finger length for best taste and texture or tennis ball size for the round ones. Leave them any longer and they become more bland and risk escaping to become zeppelins aka marrows..
https://www.agri.gov.il/people/725.aspx
this guy has forgot more about cucurbits
then you ever knew.
Think your blood pressure would benefit from the button too
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I like the look of your round, yellow courgettes @julia.hall2461 and will keep an eye out for some round here.