Any normal summer, we would by now be totally over courgettes.
Left a day too long on the plant, they’d be morphing into marrow-like mammoths and I’d have moved from stir fry to stuffed to fritters and crustless quiche, peeling them into ribbons to stand in for pasta and would now be pureeing and freezing them because, though their appearance on the dining table would now be being greeted by collective groans, I cant bring myself to waste food.
But this is not a normal summer
and discovering this, peeking out from the undergrowth, was greeted by a squawk of utter joy.
Union Homestead 
Well, darn! Too little or too much rain?
I think it’s more to do with temperature; it’s just not been constantly warm. Take the last few days for example – Sunday 27°, yesterday 14°
Yikes!
We had a bad zucchini year last year…I guess it’s a case of “absence makes the heart grow fonder”, as we normally struggle to be grateful for the over abundance. Last year, the struggle was finding any zukes at all!
We always celebrate both the beginning and the end of the harvest as a rule 😊
Now we have discovered we can freeze courgette soup, we can’t have to many. I hope that your bad experience will stay in your part of the world and not creep round to us. I knew that you had had a bad summer but that shows how bad it has been.
I had been wishing for a grand finale summer flourish but time is running out. Fingers crossed your summer results in your freezer being crammed full of summer bounty.
Aah, the vagaries of seasonal variations!
A bit depressing this year having to buy in sauce tomatoes