I grew courgettes in my garden once and I had a hard job eating them before they turned into marrows. All the plants started fruiting at once and whenever I lagged behind in my harvesting, the quantity and size of the courgettes increased making the job of catching up even harder.
Eventually I gave in and the garden was taken over by hundreds of big green marrows with solid skins. I had a dream of hollowing them out and leasing them as cheap housing to elves, gnomes and fairies (provided of course they were able to provide the required character references). Then the winter came and the marrows rotted and disappeared along with my dream of becoming a millionaire landlord. The tennants would probably have paid me in magic mushrooms and nuts anyway.
The one consolation I have is that the experience left me with a surfeit of courgette recipes. Here's one of them.
Ingredients
600-700g of courgettes
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 green pepper
12 or 3 tomatoes
A small piece of root ginger
A small piece of cinnamon stick
2 thirds of a teaspoon of coriander seed
1 third of a teaspoon of cumin seed
A few black peppercorns
Salt
Oil
Lightly crush the dry spices and fry for a few seconds in hot oil, before adding the chopped onion, garlic, green pepper and ginger. Fry for a few minutes then add the chopped tomatoes and courgettes. Add enough water to almost cover the ingredients and put a lid on the pan. After five minutes turn the heat down a little and simmer until the courgettes are soft.