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  • #1

    when does a courgette become a marrow

    hey all,
    i have spent time looking into this but have found no definitive answer.
    1, does a courgette even become a marrow and 2, at what point if at all.
    thank you for your time
    Marc
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    1. Yes
    2. When it's grown up enough
    "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

    Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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    • #3
      It becomes a marrow the day you go away on holiday

      Does it matter though? (if you like marrows that is)

      Me, I like my courgettes about 6" long, and tender. They tend to get a dry texture if they get too big. One of my neighbour's is now 30" long and as thick as your leg
      Last edited by Two_Sheds; 05-08-2010, 12:04 PM. Reason: forgot the darn postrofee
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      • #4
        When you take a week's holiday, then you're guaranteed to come back to marrows. At which point the plant thinks "Job Done!" and doesn't produce any more fruit (normal sized courgette)
        Caro

        Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
          One of my neighbours is now 30" long and as thick as your leg
          Is he on holiday?
          "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

          Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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          • #6
            yup


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            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              thank you for your answers.

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              • #8
                I grow compact bush plants for courgettes and cut when they are nice and small but then do big sprawling vine ones for marrows which I use to bulk out food and in chutneys in the main.

                Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                • #9
                  the answer is simples
                  vegetable marrow: short stubby tapered and cylindrical with a length-broadest-width ratio of 1.5 to 3.0 traditional grown in England or grown monstrously big for exhibition; Horticulturally primative group
                  of subspecies pepo.vegetable spaghetti is most popular vegetable marrow in the USA.
                  Zucchini/courgette: uniformly cylindrical with little or no taper
                  The most popular C.pepo and most modern cultivator group in it's subspecies. Crunchy texture developed in Italy; the name zucchini comes from the plural in Italian for "summer squash" Most are shades of green and some are intensely yellow. Length to long width ratio is usually 3.5 to 4.5. Confusion rampant of what constitutes a Zucchini : often mixed up with a Cocozella or Vegetable Marrow. sub species Pepo.
                  From defined difference in book "The Compleat Squash" p 104

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by bablingbrook View Post
                    the answer is simples
                    vegetable marrow: short stubby tapered and cylindrical with a length-broadest-width ratio of 1.5 to 3.0 traditional grown in England or grown monstrously big for exhibition; Horticulturally primative group
                    of subspecies pepo.vegetable spaghetti is most popular vegetable marrow in the USA.
                    Zucchini/courgette: uniformly cylindrical with little or no taper
                    The most popular C.pepo and most modern cultivator group in it's subspecies. Crunchy texture developed in Italy; the name zucchini comes from the plural in Italian for "summer squash" Most are shades of green and some are intensely yellow. Length to long width ratio is usually 3.5 to 4.5. Confusion rampant of what constitutes a Zucchini : often mixed up with a Cocozella or Vegetable Marrow. sub species Pepo.
                    From defined difference in book "The Compleat Squash" p 104
                    Oh OK - clear as mud to me. I call them courgettes when they're small and tender, and marrows when they're big enough to stuff.

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                    • #11
                      I would say that once the slices of courgette become too big to make a fritata...............you've got a marrow!
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                      • #12
                        rustylady clear and definable to different things.
                        if want more info on how to tell the difference between marrows and courgettes I suggest you contact expert on cucubit pepo .

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                        • #13
                          bablingbrook has been banned for bad manners
                          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

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                            Originally posted by Nicos View Post
                            bablingbrook has been banned for bad manners
                            Blimey, you get banned easily these days! Did think they were a bit rude but it might have been poor use of typed English rather than deliberate rudeness. Am getting worried about everything I type now in case it's misconstrued (or however you spell that )

                            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                            • #15
                              There were other reasons too! Don't worry

                              - but this is going to stay a friendly forum!
                              "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                              Location....Normandy France

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