marrow = zucchini = courgette

Not quite, in my lexicon anyway Bean: sure, zucchini = courgette, but a marrow is always a much larger [and infinitely less flavo(u)rsome] growth. Our courgette plants are now in full swing, and if not picked daily the delicate little fruits soon attempt to become marrows in size but they are even then quite different. Strangely, one of our three plants seems to be a weird hybrid, with multiple heads instread of sprawling with an ever-elongating single crown of growth: if anything, it seems to be fruiting even more madly as a result! We aim to pick them significantly smaller than bananas here Bill - our ideal is about 4 or 5 inches long and maybe an inch and a half thick, at which point they are sweet and tender and fit to gently sautee in butter and garlic... mmmmmm!