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Courgettes

Last post 23-08-2008 9:30 PM by Phot's-Moll. 25 replies.

• 21/08/2008 12:22 PM

  Beebee Location: Warwickshire Joined on: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 176

  Reply | Contact <a href="http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk112/Beebee123_03/August%202008/?action=view&current=Garden-July011.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk112/Beebee123_03/August%202008/Garden-July011.jpg" border="0" alt="Corgette plant"></a> Not having great success uploading pic, hope this works.  What is this large yellow growth on my courgette plant?  I have previously cropped small courgettes from this and have been waiting for it to turn green?

• 21/08/2008 01:23 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact It will grow  bigger the longer you leave it and it will turn into a marrow, it's nothing to worry about it's just a yellow courgette, they can be green or yellow but not usually from the same plant. digger

• 21/08/2008 02:56 PM	In reply to
  Beebee Location: Warwickshire Joined on: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 176	Reply | Contact thanks Digger, did seem strange being on the same plant as the previous green ones!

• 21/08/2008 04:38 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact It's a very pretty colour! There seem to be more plants producing sports and other uncharacteristic growths then normal this year (must remember to take pictures of my mutant tomatoes) Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 22/08/2008 04:47 PM	In reply to
  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 1,104	Reply | Contact That looks lovely! don't forget to stuff the flowers with cream cheese, dip in tempura batter and deep fry - to die for!!!!

• 22/08/2008 05:04 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact Hi yes susiq I did hear that people down South and in London eat flowers from courgettes, but i didn't know if it was true, but then again they eat eels jelly down London, anyway you've been to London is that where you got the recipe from? what is tempura batter? and someone told me they eat conkers in London as well?  digger

• 22/08/2008 05:32 PM	In reply to
  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 1,104	Reply | Contact Jellied eels - YUK YUK and triple YUK - can't stand the things! Tempura batter is a japanese batter that literally melts in your mouth, made from ice cold fizzy water, flour and cornflour. The secret is the water being as cold as cold can be. Celery leaves done the same way are gorgeous too - as to Conkers, you are now deffo pulling my plo***r

• 22/08/2008 05:37 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact I've not tried jellied eels and don't fancy the look of them.   I'm not entirely sure but I think conkers are poisonous.  sue1002

• 22/08/2008 05:47 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact It's only what I was told they roast and eat them, I've just asked OH and she tells me they sell them in bags in London and call them roasted chestnuts? ughh digger

• 22/08/2008 05:54 PM	In reply to
  Mudances Location: Tamariu, Sunny Spain. Joined on: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 11	Reply | Contact Surely you mean Chestnuts! Don't you? I could advertise here, but I wont!!

• 22/08/2008 06:06 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact Yes are they not conkers? digger

• 22/08/2008 06:14 PM	In reply to
  Mudances Location: Tamariu, Sunny Spain. Joined on: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 11	Reply | Contact Indeed they are. I could advertise here, but I wont!!

• 22/08/2008 09:13 PM	In reply to
  bogweevil Location: Joined on: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 2,043	Reply | Contact Hmmm - yellow courgettes from the same plant as green ones - I think not. Horse chestnut - conkers - mildly toxic Sweet chestnut - chestnuts - delicous Please try and keep up. And don't tell Digger something is edible when it is not - he is easily led.   Boggy     Beware the bat-eared bogweevil

• 22/08/2008 09:18 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact You just beat me to it Boggy   Both the sweet chestnut and the horse chestnut are completely different trees - the sweet chestnut is Castanea sativa and the horse chestnut is Aesculus hippocastanum. sue1002

• 22/08/2008 09:28 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact Right I've literally been barking up the wrong tree! i did think it would be unusual to eat conkers! but it must be something that is peculiar to the South of England? we don't eat either kind of chestnut up here. digger