I have been growing courgettes for the past forty years. I understand that Italians, Americans and Australians use the term "zucchini" but here in Great Britain we side with the French. To us they are "courgettes".
Once established, they are pretty easy plants to grow and in a good year they will keep on fruiting for a few weeks as a succession of trumpeting yellow flowers summon bees and other pollinators.
Until this summer, I have never spotted conjoined courgettes. They have always been single specimens. But this year - on different plants - I have managed to produce two sets of Siamese courgettes. I had no idea that this was even possible.
As you know, the camera never lies, and after picking the twins this very evening, I decided to photograph them for you and for posterity too.
Did you call Ripley's or Guinness to see if they are interested? A distant relation of mine just showed a picture on facebook of the inside of a bell pepper. Let's just say that particular pepper was male.
ReplyDeleteWas the bell pepper drinking cans of beer and looking at porn on his computer?
DeleteThou shalt not covet thy neighbour's Courgettes.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Tenth Commandment, bro.
I think we should say Zucchini for Courgettes and Gelato for Ice Cream
and Cornetti for Brioche (in Roma they top them with a dollop of cream).
Let's Italianise the English language.
There used to be an Italian coffee franchise in Glasgow Central Station.
One morning I heard an Italian couple saying *This is NOT Italian coffee !*
The wee lassie behind the counter was quite upset.
*Ye just cannae please some folk,* she said, *Ah mean Ah went oan
a week's training course learning how tae dae this.*
My heart went out to her.
It was nothing like Italian coffee; I hadn't the nerve to tell her.
I never knew that they grew coffee beans in Italy. Why didn't they call the station brew Scottish Coffee?
DeleteScotch Coffee is fortified with Scotch Whisky.
DeleteOr Spanish brandy like Fundador, Hemingway's favourite.
I have drunk black coffee with Strega, they say you can taste
mint, juniper & anise in Strega.
I swore off hard liquor years ago and tell the young it is for losers.
Wait a minute! One stem? extra deep grove. Well, I am doubtful. Darn. Mr Pudding might not follow me any more!
ReplyDeleteWhaddya mean you are "doubtful"?
DeleteMaybe they're twice as good?
ReplyDeleteThat could be my advertising slogan.
DeleteThey are fine looking zucchinis
ReplyDeleteNope! They are fine looking courgettes!
DeleteAre they fraternal or identical?
ReplyDeleteSiamese can be either.
DeleteIt is the one plant that you can count on during the unruly summers in Colorado. You can count on them so much that you will have to give many to friends and neighbors until they beg you to stop!! In addition, there is nothing better for a summer lunch than stuffed zucchini flowers breaded and sautéed in a little oil. Of course, said flower has to be a male flower and you must pluck the very large male member out of the middle of the flower before stuffing and sautéing and eating the flower.
ReplyDeletePlucking a large male member sounds like lots of fun.
DeleteI have seen bananas grow like that and a tomato once, but never zucchini.
ReplyDeleteMine are not unique but quite unusual.
DeleteIt is one of the few times where we didn't follow our ancestors with their words, probably because we never had zucchinis until maybe the 1960s, that my family knew of anyway. I would guess they were introduced to us by Italian immigrants and their name for them was fine with us.
ReplyDeleteI think your guesswork is accurate.
DeleteThat looks a very healthy plant - so different from the ones in the supermarket.
ReplyDeleteIt's good when they are fresh. Have you ever grown a courgette plant at your house Carol?
DeleteIt is a bit like in spring when you find double yolks in the eggs. Or is it the little world of breeding courgettes has gone wrong?
ReplyDeleteI blame Vladimir Putin for the aberration.
DeletePathetic! I once had one that looked like a duck.
ReplyDeleteIt's here: https://www.taskerdunham.com/2016/09/help-my-courgette-looks-like-duck.html
I once had one that looked like a cucumber!
DeleteI have found these quite often with the very first fruits. After the first ones they settle down.
ReplyDeleteAs I say, I have never seem one before.
DeleteThey are called zucchini in German, too. I like them for their versatility. The one in the first picture looks like a heart (stating the obvious, I know).
ReplyDeleteOnly another week until my Yorkshire holiday, by the way! We‘ll have a family gathering at Cannon Hall Farm, chosen by my sister-in-law because it is dog-friendly, and in South Yorkshire, closer to where most of the relatives live.
The weather has been quite unsettled this month. I hope it calms down for you.
DeleteInteresting, I'd want to investigate how they are joined, how they are fused together.
ReplyDeleteI will show you another picture soon.
DeleteI've never seen that before, Neil. My brother grows zucchinis in his garden plot and he always shares them with me.
ReplyDeleteWhat a kind brother he is!
DeleteHow odd. I wonder if two fruits came from the same flower, or if they were adjacent flowers that somehow grew together? Hmmmm...
ReplyDeleteI am not sure but I know my siamese twins are not unique.
DeleteHmmm. Seems a bit racy to me.
ReplyDeleteI hope you didn't get too excited Bruce!
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