Gone at last!

[Parsons Jack]

Evening PJ, your new plot sounds full of promise.

Evening OH,

It certainly does. I've now got the room to grow all that I want to. Roll on next year

[Catherine]

Well I have definitely picked the last three courgettes. We had a few more but when I got there today some of them had started to go gooey. So I have decided to chop them out and finish them this year. Shame.

If anyone has any ideas as to what to grow (courgettes) next year which you think has been really good taste wise, please let me know.

[Parsons Jack]

Well I have definitely picked the last three courgettes. We had a few more but when I got there today some of them had started to go gooey. So I have decided to chop them out and finish them this year. Shame.

If anyone has any ideas as to what to grow (courgettes) next year which you think has been really good taste wise, please let me know.

Hi Catherine,

I grew Romanesco from Seeds of Italy this year and was very pleased with them. Very prolific and a nice, somewhat nutty taste.

[Parsons Jack]

Evening PJ, your new plot sounds full of promise.

Hi OH,

As of yesterday there was some doubt whether I would be allowed to take all of it, but I had it confirmed this morning that it is all mine

[oldherbaceous]

Well that is good news, PJ.

[Primrose]

Signs that you have grown too many courgettes:

Your neighbours find a bag of them every morning on their doorsteps;

Your culinary repertoire includes courgette cake, courgette bread,
courgette soup, courgette fritters, grated courgette salad, Roasted
vegetables with courgette, griddled courgettes, boiled courgettes,
creamed courgettes, courgette curry, braised courgettes, courgette mash, courgettes a la facon du grandmere,(well that's what you sneakily called it)............. and raw courgettes in every lunch pack....

You find a book on the Internet called "One Hundred Ways with
Courgettes" and you have them all and some more;

Every meal, your family are hunting for the hidden or disguised
courgette ingredient;

The Market traders keep turning you away for trying to sell them
courgettes;

Every morning you pick every viable courgette, but tomorrow there are
even more and you find the one you missed yesterday which is, by now, a giant;

Your supermarket bans you from the store for trying to slip courgettes
into their display;

The mice leave your garden rather than eat another courgette;

You spray your courgette plants with sugar water to attract insects.
But, they won't eat them either;

You make a flute made out of a courgette;

You start carving them into Lego bricks for the kids;

You suffer recurring Nightmares about a giant courgette;

You laugh hysterically when you hear the story about the gardening
beginner who planted forty courgette plants on his new allotment because he thought you only get one courgette per plant... (This is 100% true - Kitchen Garden website confession);

Having green fingers starts to take on a sinister meaning.......

You start finding your neighbours are leaving a bag of courgettes on
your doorstep every morning.....

Frozen courgettes anybody?