| The book devotes 30 pages to cucurbits, from giant pumpkins through marrows, zucchinis and cucumbers to back-scratching loofahs. |
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| For years I planted carrots among the roses, giant marrows and dahlias, and daffodils and daisies interspersed with broccoli and artichokes. |
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| Lots of vegetables should be ready to harvest now including marrows, onions and sweetcorn. |
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| Other specialist bags have been developed especially for salads and vegetables including even marrows and courgettes. |
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| This is a land of festivals, more than any other, whether it means tossing cabers, weighing marrows or staging opera in country houses. |
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| I spotted the first of the really big marrows, and even a small pumpkin the other day. |
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| Behind him, seven-year-old Jordan stood in awe with his grandmother, admiring the enormous marrows. |
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| Horticultural societies and shows, which began 200 years ago, still display prize marrows, giant leeks and perfect chrysanthemums. |
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| The British will bet on virtually anything from the size of marrows, through slug racing, to how long it takes to run round the quadrangle of an Oxford College. |
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| In addition to cereals the Greeks used figs, grapes, pomegranates, spinach, marrows, celery, nettles, hyacinth bulbs, artichokes, asparagus and honey. |
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| Courgettes are actually baby marrows, just picked earlier from the plant. |
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| We grow all manner of vegetables from cabbages and carrots to marrows. |
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| Glaze the baby marrows and peeled carrots in a pan with honey. |
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| Ronde de Nice squash, hard-skinned and as smooth as a cricket ball will bake well with a dab of garlic butter, and yet the young marrows would be just as good. |
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| Unripe fruits are cooked as a vegetable in the same way as marrows. |
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| Other vegetables which will keep in a cool, dry, frost-free place include onions, garlic, marrows, pumpkins, winter squashes and winter cabbages. |
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| Courgettes need to be dug up quickly before they turn to marrows, as well as second earlies and maincrop potatoes if the foliage is going yellow. |
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