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Grittyville, WA

The Exotic Seed Exchange is offering you a chance to strut your veggie growing prowess! Just for fun. Open to everyone.

What exactly is a zucchini? Not sure how guiness wr would define it. If the gpc dq's your marrow then try to pass it off as a zucchini...? Idk. Maybe!

If no impressive true zucchini is entered the prize can go to the most impressive/unusual garden 'thing'. (A wrong-colored marrow, for example.)

Have fun and grow some 'thing' awesome this year. It's an informal contest so there wont be exact rules... Rule #1 Have fun.

Brandon

2/8/2020 9:19:59 PM

North Pole,Alaska

Dutch Brad went to great lengths to distinguish marrows from zucchini for the GPC and Guinness. Rules are posted in various locations ( don't have time to look up now). Main criteria is marrows are vine grown, zucchini is bush grown. Brad lists other characteristics in the rules.
Great to have fun, but this has been a problem area for years, and now that Brad has straightened it out, do we really want to cloud the issue, just as this class is gaining in popularity?

2/9/2020 11:57:04 AM

Grittyville, WA

Nope I dont want to cloud the issue. When I have time I will research it. Its only the second year for marrows here so I am still learning the judges are still learning too. If anyone has a link to the guiness definitions it would help advance my understanding... thanks.

2/9/2020 2:32:35 PM

Oak Grove, Mn

i am somewhat confused. A majority of what is called zuchini grown in the usa are vining plants...not bush grown. If these are not zuchini's, what are they?

2/9/2020 6:14:04 PM

Savage, MN

Bnot zucchini are still technically a "vining" crop but their vines only grow like 5ft so they resemble more of a bush unlike marrows that vine out 20 plus feet. This contest came about because in the seed exchange rick gave out seeds from his giant zucchini. If I was you brandon I would only accept entries from the seed exchange seeds or from actual zucchini seeds. If you start getting into dq marrows it could get a little dicey.

2/9/2020 7:51:58 PM

North Pole,Alaska

This is from the rulebook.
Brandon, the seed packet sent out also had seeds from my 81# marrow

17. Marrow – Cucurbita pepo
For competition purposes, the following distinctions are made between marrows and zucchini (syn. courgette): A marrow is grown on a vining plant, a zucchini on a bush type plant without vines. A marrow generally has rough skin while a zucchini generally has smooth skin. A marrow is generally quite uniform in thickness while a zucchini tends to taper out towards the blossom end.
Specific rules:
a. The vine must be trimmed within 2.5 centimetres (1 inch) of the stem.

2/9/2020 9:58:57 PM

North Pole,Alaska

b. Marrows may be green with green or yellow striping or completely yellowish-white. No orange colouring is accepted.

2/9/2020 10:03:10 PM

Penryn CA

Are we talking a regular garden Zucchini or is there a special giant genetic seed your group is using?

2/10/2020 11:06:53 AM

Grittyville, WA

Good info and advice... Thanks. I will post 'suggested guidelines/rules' in April. Will use the guidelines as one factor in judging a winner. I would like it to be inclusive to a certain degree of any oddball in-between pepos... Thats the modern world.

2/10/2020 12:54:48 PM