150913_marrow

150913_marrow

The Mighty Marrow is still growing on the vine. After some debate, I decided to leave it untouched, and to let my mum decide when to harvest the second one (yes, the flower I mentioned previously set fruit!). She was of the opinion that you should harvest it when the fruit is young and not too seedy – preferably when flower at the base of the fruit dries up and drops off. However, I was advised that in Thailand, they leave the fruits on the vine until the vine dies off, and that in the Philippines, they harvest the fruit when the “hairs” on the skin of the fruit drop off, so I was more inclined to wait. Mighty Marrow is now about 66cm long and the circumference of a person’s thigh at the widest part; Marrow II is already 55cm and tilting the other end of the trellis…

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