Overboard by Chip Dunham for September 04, 2018

RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

It is your neighbors with their zucchini from their garden. And they will share it with you… all season…

I bet even the rabbits will get tired of zucchini after a while. What do you suppose the gang will do with all the extra? Send them to the green ship guys? Hmm…I wonder if those things make good cannon ammo?

As of yesterday my zuke season is over after plucking 242 of them from my first round of 8 plants. Not expecting to many from my second planting of them. Lucky for me and the wife we had plenty of co-workers and neighbors willing to take them off our hands.

and come winter we sure miss that easy to prepare veggie!

Bring it on — I LOVE zucchini!

Our Zucchini didn’t make it this year. We didn’t plant any at all at first because we couldn’t eat them fast enough. Still in season we planted some in a cleared space and all of the plants died.

Wasn’t that a famous horror movie: “The Zucchini That Ate Chicago”?

zucchini who?

Take my zucchini, please!

Tomatoes. Everyone I work with grows tomatoes. Our kitchenette is full of free tomatoes nobody wants because they have a garden full of tomatoes THEY don’t want.

I have a food intolerance for cukes. So I eat zukes instead in my salads. So if you want to get rid of them send them to me and I will gladly chow down on them! :-)

Where I come from, the kudzu will overwhelm the zucchini and anything or anyone else.

Hucchini?

Zucchini is the plant kingdom’s answer to styrofoam packing.

Yeah, my mom learned not to plant more than one plant per season. But in that first planting (a dozen, I think) she did learn you can make pickles from them (especially bread and butter pickles from the huge zucchini – one slice covers a whole slice of bread). She also pureed them and stored the liquid in the freeze to make bread (not the sweet bread, but regular white/whole wheat bread). We did eat a lot of zucchini the first summer she planted ALL the seeds. And we did give away a lot (but not anonymously), but canning and freezing worked very well indeed.

I wish. I had 8 zucchini and 8 yellow crook net planted this year and never got a single squash. They bloomed but never formed fruit. Don’t know if it was my soil conditions, bee shortages, or what.

That’ll keep you in zucchini bread for awhile.

I am now in a “senior retirement” community with no way to plant anything! I miss it! So…enjoy!I used to save the biggest and stuff them like green peppers. I miss that too; they don’t choose to fix it for dinner here! Phooey!

A good neighbor who loves to garden goes around early in the year and takes orders.

Zucchini freezes nicely! Yes it does! Slice it, bread it, freeze, and then reheat whenever for a tasty snack. Dip in marinara sauce, ranch dressing, etc. Good evening Crew!

Incoming—take cover!

Good Evening, Crew.