Marrows have long been grown, but other than for super-sized specimens at flower shows they’re no longer as popular as the many varieties of squash that have effectively replaced them. True, we still eat a lot of marrows, but solely as wee babies, for that’s what courgettes (zucchini) are. Indeed, if you miss picking for only a week or so then you’ll soon know about it, with giants in place of the smaller, sweeter specimens you might have preferred. Fortunately, with the marrow’s robust constitution you rarely go badly wrong growing either courgettes or zucchini.
However, squashes are not marrows and require a bit more warmth and richness to prosper, and the same goes for pumpkins which look very similar and are just another form of squash.
Squashes come in…
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Amateur Gardening (Digital) - 1 Issue, 27-Apr-2024