Topic: Courgettes - why do we always do it?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

SOUP! soup is the answer!

[Duke Ellington]

I have 24 and I need therapy.......

You cannot be serious !!! :o....24!!! :o

[terrier]

Well I've not had one yet, There's been a gargantuan battle between the slugs and the courgette plants. I think the courgettes have eventually won, but it was a close run thing. I've now got a lot of very fat slugs wondering where they went wrong and, just to rub salt ( ;) ) into their wounds, I've  put out mounds of bran for them to feast on to protect against further damage. This morning I had one baby courgette, this evening I had two. Long live courgettes :)

[manicscousers]

I used them instead of cucumber in the mustard pickle  ;D

[Digeroo]

between the slugs and the courgette

Some varieties are more prone to slug damage than others.  My recommendation for slug resistance is Clarita and Lungo Bianco(but you may not like the pale coloured fruit), worst Bolognese or Magda.  Try growing more than one variety, the seeds last several years. 

Not sure that I should recommend Trieste, it is producing huge numbers of courgettes. :o :o :o

Just picked 11 courgettes, having some fried for breakfast.

SOUP!

  Can we have your recipe?

[Borlotti]

Yes please we need a tasty, easy courgette soup recipe please.

[Squash64]

Last year I grew Rugosa Friulana for the first time and really loved it.
http://seedsofitaly.co.uk/product/667
It is a very strange-looking yellowish courgette but the texture is much firmer than usual, almost like avocado.

It is slightly slower than other varieties to start producing so I'm also growing Striato d'Italia and Verde Scuro di Milano.

[Squash64]

I have 24 and I need therapy.......

You cannot be serious !!! :o....24!!! :o

I blame it on Compulsive Seed Sowing.
It's an illness as yet not recognised by the medical profession but only too well-known among gardeners.
When I'm sowing seeds I have to plant too many in case most of them don't grow.  Of course, they all germinate and then there's no turning back. My friend chucks all her surplus on the compost heap but to me, that's like drowning kittens.  :'(

[caroline7758]

I've given away quite a few plants this year but have to say I was nervous in case the onesI kept didn't survive.Haven't picked any yet but asI haven't been to the plot since Monday there may be some waiting for me!

[Sparkly]

I have 4 - 2 x F1 one ball and 2 x a patty pan variety. The one ball produced 3 lemon sized this week and the plants are growing quick now. Has anyone grown this variety before? It was from T&M. They look like lemons!

[saddad]

They round out a bit more at tennis ball shaped..  :)

[shirlton]

I grew some round green ones last year. Won't be growing them again cos they are really prolific and the variety I grew wandered as well

[Paulines7]

if you live in the Salisbury area

  That is a bit far are you coming near Swindon at all.

Unfortunately not, Digeroo, but thank you for the offer.  I am off to Brockenhurst for a few days next week if anyone has any to spare in that area.  What a scrounger I am but I hate the thought of someone having too many and having to throw them away!!

[Digeroo]

Certainly will not be throwing them away.  Sell them for 30p each.  Funds my seedoholic habit.  Last resort will be the pigs.

I'm like you Squash64 I can't get rid of them.  One year I lost all except one to mosaic virus.  So I grow lots of different varieties just in case   But most of the variety are resistant now.  The remaining one was a cousa weed.  It took me several year to track down another like it.  Never grown on as good since, regret not savint the seeds.

I have more than 24 plants. :o :o :o and that is not counting the squashes.

[Borlotti]

Just found this recipe on my gardening calendar.  Griddled Courgette Flatties.
Boil together: 1kg grated courgettes, 1/2 kg potatoes, 1 kg onions with 3 bay leaves and a pinch of salt and pepper.  Strain the cooked mixture and push through a sieve.  Mix together the mash with 3 beaten eggs.  Shape into flat patties and place on a lightly oiled griddle to brown.  Top with a poached egg.
Might try this, but not sure if you would have to add water to boil the pots etc. and also don't have a griddle but could grill.  Might be a bit difficult to get that mixture through a seive, but not a bad recipe for veggies.  Not sure with 3 eggs in it would need another on top, but maybe worth a try.

[Hyacinth]

I used them instead of cucumber in the mustard pickle  ;D
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Manics! :-*

Any chance of a recipe which incorporates loads of courgettes and cucumbers? ::)

After a near-death experience with both these last year,  I played safe and nurtured all the plantlets of both, this.....  :o

[Digeroo]

also don't have a griddle but could grill.

I think that a frying pan would perhaps be another alternative to a griddle pan.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Yes please we need a tasty, easy courgette soup recipe please.

ooh dear a RECIPE! a proper recipe is lost in the mists of time! All I do is sweat a large chopped up onion with butter, add chopped up courgette, cook that for a bit, add some stock, pepper and salt, and then liquidise it, and mix in yogurt. I like the Greek yoghurt which give it a tangy lemony taste

if the cougettes are young, no need to peel (actually I never peel them)

had a look for the recipe, couldn't find it. How much courgette you use will probably depend on how desperate you are to get rid - aim for a consistency slightly less than wallpaper paste  ;D Yum Yum, I should be on the telly  ;D

[Borlotti]

As long as it doesn't taste like wallpaper paste!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D  Just off to see if the lovely courgettes have grown since last night.

[manicscousers]

I used them instead of cucumber in the mustard pickle  ;D
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Manics! :-*

Any chance of a recipe which incorporates loads of courgettes and cucumbers? ::)

After a near-death experience with both these last year,  I played safe and nurtured all the plantlets of both, this.....  :o

will start a new thread in recipes for you, Hyacinth, nice to see you back  ;D