Too Many Courgettes?

[veggiechicken]

Stuffed Corgies! Mince, herbs, corgie, rice. Then add cheese and bake. They are awesome!
Then there's corgie and carrot cake, that's very noice too!
I love the things, but got away with only one plant this year, as I had a few people at work who knew I liked them and had a constant oversupply from them as well
Of course we call them Zucchinni's here. Just to be different. Bit like the eggplant/aubergine thingamy. Ali

I'm glad I'm not the only one who calls them corgies (whispers - you're not just saying that to humour me are you, Feral Ali?

thank VC i know i could count on you

How could I forget where that post was Sarico?

[chris]

I think I've bout 8 or do... Two or three round type, two or three normal, and two that I have no idea what are, just that they're courgettes.

Also a couple patty pans too- didn't manage to grow any of them last year.

I plan on giving some to family and neighbours though . But we do eat a lot of them usually anyway, so it'll be good to freeze some, and preserve the rest.

[bethduckie]

I grew six plants last year for the two of us, and to be honest I could have done with a few more. But then I do eat them when they are smallish- smaller then shop ones, as the taste is finer than when they are marrow sized although some seem to escape my notice and elude me. LOL. Ones that aren't eaten are caked, dried, ratatouilled etc.

We ate them most days in some form during the courgette season and this suited me fine.

So yeah, it depends on how many you want, if you only want one or two a week, then you'll be inundated!

[Bren In Pots]

We ate them most days in some form during the courgette season and this suited me fine.

It got to be a joke in our house Mr Pots would say 'what are we having with our courgettes today.'

[horticultural_hobbit]

I have eight, I think. Purely because of the different varieties. Far cry from just having one Astia like last year. Last year, we had four a week at high season. Went into anything and everything. We didn't actually get bored of them, and I did recall at one point being told off for not having any courgettes as we were between fruits. Fruit went as far as rugby to Aunty Indra and Nuneaton for Grandad. They are lovely grated and out into onion bhajis.

[dominic10]

There are two of us and I usually have 4 plants but we had limited space. Now we have our own allotment I may experiment with other varieties. At the end of the season usually some grow as marrows and I found this recipe:

Ingredients:
1.3kg/3lb Marrow, peeled
50g/2oz Salt
450g/1lb Granulated Sugar
450g/1lb Apples, peeled, cored and chopped
450g/1lb Onions, chopped
225g/8oz Stem Ginger
225g/8oz Sultanas
1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
600ml/20fl.oz.Pickling Vinegar

Instructions

1. Remove the seeds from the marrow, cut into small cubes and arrange a layer in a large bowl. Sprinkle with salt and repeat the layers until the marrow is used up. Cover and leave in a cool place for 24 hours.

2. Drain and rinse the marrow well, then dry on kitchen paper.

3. Place all the ingredients except marrow and sugar in a large saucepan, gradually bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring from time to time.

4. Add the marrow and sugar then simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

5. Spoon the hot mixture into warm sterilised jars and cover, seal and label.

[Alison]

I read someone on here grates the excess and freezes them to add to sauces throughout the winter. No one ever wants our excess, so I pickle some, make some into chutneys and there's a few not bad chocolate cakes/brownie recipes out there.

That'll be me. I had a major glut last year of standard green ones (from only 3 plants) and we were eating them all the bleeding time. I ended up drying a load in my dehydrator too and then putting the dried slices in the food processor. Stored in jars I them add to stocks etc and it's worked really well. Last year I had two outside but also one in the polytunnel which was what really did for us - it got HUGE and must have produced more than my body weight in fruits, with the last one being picked at the end of October as I remember. 10 is a heck of a lot although I always found that if you grow in pots you do need more plants as they have never produced as well for me.