Marrow preservation tips?

 We've had the first ground so now must be time to harvest the marrows
before they get caught with the cold. Anyone have any tips on how best
to preserve them whole? The freezer is crammed full of chopped
courgettes; but it would be nice to keep some whole marrows. However,
when I've tried to keep them in the past in the garage a couple of
months later they are completely rotten. Tips?

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 On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:07:42 +0200, David in Normandy


IME (from the days when I had an allotment), they will keep until
Christmas if you store them hanging in nets, making sure they have air
all round and don't touch each other, somewhere cool rather than on a
shelf. Check the stalk carefully before you cut - if there's any sign
of deterioration there (bit of mould growing for example) then that
marrow needs to be used quickly after cutting.

I never attempted to keep them past Christmas. Those destined for
longer storage were stuffed and part cooked before freezing within a
couple of days of cutting.

Cheers, Jake
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 "David in Normandy"  wrote ...

We have never had any trouble keeping then well past Christmas, on a netting
shelf high up in our garage. If they are ripe (bit of yellow showing) they
store well. Always used to use the seeds from the Christmas one for the next
seasons plants. Now we keep Butternuts instead.
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 On 16/10/2011 16:53, Bob Hobden wrote:

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll try keeping them in the loft this
year, it is a bit warmer, or at least less chance of getting frosted up
there. I'll rig up some netting to hold them, that sounds more commonly
used than simply putting them on shelves. I guess they will be out of
the way of mice too hung in netting.

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 DavidinNormandy@nospam.nospam says...
 

  Onion sacks are useful airy "nets", grocers will give them away free.

  Janet