when does a courgette become a marrow

[nosferato]

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

[womble]

1. Yes
2. When it's grown up enough

[Two_Sheds]

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

[Caro]

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)

[womble]

One of my neighbours is now 30" long and as thick as your leg

Is he on holiday?

[Two_Sheds]

yup


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[nosferato]

thank you for your answers.

[Alison]

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.

[bablingbrook]

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

[rustylady]

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.

[Snadger]

I would say that once the slices of courgette become too big to make a fritata...............you've got a marrow!

[bablingbrook]

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 .

[Nicos]

bablingbrook has been banned for bad manners

[Alison]

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 )

[Nicos]

There were other reasons too! Don't worry

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