Yesterday I asked you to identify what this was:
Arjan and Dad Who Writes thought it was a giant courgette. Don’t they know that giant courgettes are actually called marrows? Arjan I can forgive because his first language is Holandish (or is that Netherlandese), but for Dad Who Writes there is no excuse. Go away and study your Alan Titchmarsh more carefully next time.
Over on flickr, JJ Daddy-O suggested it was a zucchini – which is actually the US word for courgette anyway (those wacky Americans). I’m not sure what the US word for marrow is, probably “xisuduw” or something. Then again everything is supposed to be bigger over there, so perhaps they would just regard it as a medium sized gherkin.
Anyway, this is all irrelevant because it’s not a courgette, marrow, zucchini, xisuduw, or gherkin. It’s a pumpkin.
Honestly, it is.
I’ve got three more that look exactly like it too. The reason that it’s green not orange is that it isn’t ripe yet, but I’ve no idea why it’s elongated like that. It’s not because of the variety because I got three normal looking pumpkins from the same plant, see:
Maybe it’s that uranium fertilizer I’ve been using.
Anyhow according to the internet there isn’t much of a chance of it ripening now it’s been taken off the vine (which I had to do as the parent plant was going rotten and yucky). I’m not sure if there is anything you can do with mutant unripened pumpkins. Anyone got any suggestions?
I knew radioactivity was involved somewhere. How people find the patience to garden is quite beyond me! I’m always seriously impressed, especially when it involves veg.
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@Dad who writes, I get all enthusiastic every spring, and then my attitude slowly turns to apathy as summer progresses. Any crop is more luck than anything else unfortunately
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You can make pumpkin pie, it is seriously yummy, want my recipe? DM me your email address. Please tell me how you grew pumpkins, I’ve enver had any sucess. The plant takes over the whole garden but never produces any pumpkins!
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@DJ Kirkby, dghughes28@yahoo.co.uk
will pumpkin pie work with unripe pumpkins?
I put them in the same bed as my sweetcorn. I heavily manured the patch first (we have clay soil if that makes a difference). I started them off early in pots on the windowsill. And (I think this is the main thing) it’s been a horribly wet summer, which acounts for both their size (lots of water) and there unripe state (no sun). It was seriously more luck than judgement I think.
so if the pumpkin is a mutant….because it’s grown in your garden and you eat stuff from the same garden, that must mean it’s gonna be any moment now that you’ll be sprouting a third arm or whatnot.
Are you turning green yet?
You could get an airpistol and shoot at it and watch how it splatters..or you could use that trebuchet that friend of yours has and lob it towards the Scottish border?
@Arjan, Arjan’s idea of giving them to Oli sounds good :)
@Kerry, I’ll pick it up next week and if it’s still in a projectable state, I’ll give it a go! Might need to strengthen the throwing arm first?
@Arjan, my feet are green, but the’ve been that way for a few years now. Perhaps I should wash more.
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@Dan,
is having ‘green fingers’ also an English expression? In Dutch it means being good at gardening.
When I saw the title of this post I thought you had gone to extreme lengths to get to the top of the Weight Loss league.
I can lend you a raquet if you like?
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@Steve, errr – no thanks. That game looks far to energetic for me.
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@Dan, aww, I was going to challenge you to a game!
Surely, if it’s a mutant pumpkin, it WANTS to be carved into a halloween lantern! Preferably one that makes it look like a zombie. Have a look at http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/ for inspiration!
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I had 3 normal looking marrows and one round one on my marrow plant. I was totally bemused. Then the round one started to go orange. Then I realised the pumpkin and the marrow were all growing in amongst each other and it was a pumpkin. After telling everyone I had a round marrow, I felt a complete prat!
I would go for the carving personally with yours! have fun.
x
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I thought a “courgette” was a) a small warship or b) ladies underwear. I guess I am just not as “hip” as you guys.
Could you not roast the seeds anyway?
P.S. We call a marrow a “freaking huge zucchini.”
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Give it to Dad Who Writes so he can do throw it at stupid sandpit woman.
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We had a green one too, but it ripened on a shelf in the kitchen. We too put ours in with the runner beans and the corn. The corn was a toal failure, but the pumpkins did well. Our neigbour even got two which had invaded his garden.
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@TheMadHouse, I suspect we don’t have the climate for corn over here. It did look impressive while it was growing though.
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This looks terrific. I think it would be a nice Thanksgiving main dish since it’s just my husband and me this year.