ok, we were given some baby plants by a friend. only, they left a selection outside their house for people to pick up, and someone else came & took a load, then i picked up some. they don't know which ones i took, and now there's something growing & I don't know which plants i got (the previous person mixed them up)
so, how do i know if i have a large courgette which needs to be picked, or a small marrow which should be left for longer? my understanding is that i should try 'twisting' them & if they come off the plant, they're ripe. they don't look like courgettes from home (the UK), but then neither do the ones in the shops. they feel ripe, but aren't twisting off.
just to make it a little harder, this is the US, so i know that courgette = zucchini, but marrows are called some kind of squash, and other similar plants are called squash, so talking to the guy about which of his plants i may be growing gets silly - we end up googling pictures to see which ones he was giving away, then saying 'ah, that's what you call it'.