On 08/09/2010 20:07, Christina Websell wrote:

LOL! I'm not successful at growing them - slugs nip them off so I was
pleased with my marrow-sized courgette.
As for your offer of half a ton, 20lbs would be enough!
Seriously, unless you buy an extra freezer (I found courgettes freeze OK for
use in stir fries) what do you do with them if you have a glut - apart from
haunting friends and neighbours ;-)?


The freezer is full and there are only so many I can give away. I've
grown five plants this year and that has made far more courgettes and
marrows than we can eat or give away. So now I'm afraid once they get
beyond courgette size I put them in the compost bins. It has now reached
the stage that several marrows go into the compost every week.
I dislike wasting food but I'm starting to think of such surplus along
the lines of lawn clippings - it is just an excess of organic matter to
compost. Same with runner beans. My French neighbour runs away now if he
sees me picking runner beans.

There are those who say give them away to people who have no gardens etc
but it is a question of logistics and cost. If someone turned up once a
week to collect the surplus or if there was a convenient drop off point
in the village then they could all be given away. However, I'm not going
to go door knocking throughout the village asking everyone if they want
courgettes or runner beans! Such is life. There is either a glut or a
shortage of certain things.

--
David in Normandy.
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