Pickles by Brian Crane for August 02, 2024

Well guys there is an easier way. Stop planting zucchini every spring.

That should be a felony

do they set the bags on fire, ring the doorbell, and run?

At least they don’t grow 300 pound pumpkins for giant pumpkin contests.

Is this a rerun? I seem to remember Opal trying to get rid of zucchini before.

When I lived in AZ, I had 3 tomato plants on the west side of my house. With the housing code block fence they got about 2 hours of HOT sun daily. I couldn’t give away the tomatoes I had so many

Friend of mine posted on Facebook, lock your cars at night, or in the morning it might be full of zucchini!

I would love it if someone would do that for me. I’d make pickled zucchini.

For heaven’s sake, give it to me! We love zucchini, I’d make great use of it.

Oh, come on. Fry it with cornmeal. A handy snack, with or without catshup, while at play.

Aren’t there any food banks near them where they could donate the fresh veggies?

Mama-san next door to our prior house planted one zucchini but it grew so big hubby asked her daughter if she was planning on feeding the whole block.

The light may be out, but that doesn’t mean the doorbell camera is!

August 8 is National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day! Now you know and can participate if you want. This year my zucchini plants produced only 21 and now they have mostly died. So I have started several more new ones in another bed. I share my zucchini with my daughter.

She was and it was highly contagious.

Don’t grow the plants and you won’t have to resort to this sneaking around.

Let’s hope the neighbours don’t have a Ring doorbell system!

LOL, my mum dumps her’s on me ….

Roscoe is not a good watch dog.

One of my other favorite comics had the heroine making both zucchini casserole and muffins. Dad said the family is more likely to eat the muffins, so give the casserole to the new neighbors. THERE’S a welcome, eh?

I wish someone would drop off zucchini on my front steps….

An oldie but a goodie from 2007 ! There are many uses for Zucchini … But you will have to work at it ;-)

Only grow what you can eat and only eat what you can finish. Had an aunt and uncle that shopped every day for that day, Nothing was just thrown out.

People are always trying to get rid of zucchini.

Bring me some! I love Zucchini!

My neighbors know I abhor zucchini and all other types squash.

This looks AWFULLY familiar

There’s that little thing called a “dumpster.”

Zucchini bread, yum, yum!

I just keep making zucchini bread and freezing it to give away for the rest of the year. No one ever turns it down.

Episode of ALF, he planted a garden and had lots of zucchini, he says, what’s odd is I didn’t plant any.

I just warned my new neighbor about bags of tomatoes. It looks like a good year.

Don’t grow it comes to mind

Trying to get rid of excess zukes is an annual event.

I approve of this message and disposal arrangement.

Ain’t that the truth….

“♫ Zucchini, zucchini men have loaved thee…♫”

Isn’t pasta your bedtime?

“In gourd we trust!”

like a scene from Ⅰnvasion of the Body Snatchers

Years ago my family came out of church to find our car filled with zucchini and my son exclaimed, “Man, our car isn’t even safe at church!” The kids knew I’d made a pact with God, if He provided it, I’d fix it. Sure enough I borrowed my sister’s recipe book, “101 ways to fix zucchini” and used it all summer! Their favorite was zucchini cake. I loved them all except my husband’s zucchini stew, it tasted okay except overcooked zucchini is mushy.

Roast your zucchini and add to the rice with seasoned ground beef.

Years ago my neighbour planted cucumbers in his garden. A lost every day he’d go out and examine the vines. One day I went to the local market and bought this huge zucchini, which looks fairly similar to a cuke, and under the cover of night, slipped it into his cucumber patch. The next morning he was at my door, proudly displaying the vegetable. Boy, he was one happy gardener … until I pointed out it was a zucchini and asked him if it had been attached to the vine. Great fun!

It works for turnips also.

I’ll take a couple.

…goes for tomatoes as well.

Just yank the roots out and plant something else. The few time you really need one, just get it at the store. Nobody wants your bags full of them.

We have been doing that with peaches. But we ring the bell =D

Yes getting rid of it is a chore but I am gunning for the sneak who keeps planting so much of it in our garden.

I always wondered why they didn’t just donate it to the local foodbank.

In Iowa towns that is the reason people keep their kitchen door locked.

the loneliest guy in the world is the one in the grocery buying zucchinis

Honey, did you order something from Doordash?

How about not growing them?

I’ve said it before… PULL UP THE VINES!:-p

Try the-bread-of-life.

Cue the Mission Impossible Theme.

August 8th is National Sneak Some Zucchini On Your Neighbor’s Porch Day!!!

why do people chronically over plant zucchini? surely even one is enough (or more than enough)

Remember the fate of Mr. Gianelli!

Setting up a farmstand by the curb works, mine only takes donations for the T2T fund.

Hey Rose, leave some at my front door; I’ll make Kung Pao!

I wish she lived on my street. I long for bags of fresh zucchini. Squash bugs ruin everything that I plant

I remember reading many years ago about someone who couldn’t bear to throw them out, so they’d wrap them up like a gift and leave them on the seat of their unlocked car. Eventually someone would steal the package, thinking they were getting something valuable!… (of course if they liked zucchini, they struck it rich! If not, oh well…)

Bring me some! You don’t even have to do it under cover of night!

Hope that’s Dan & Sylvia’s place – as payback for Nelson living with with Gramma and Grampa.

Garrison Keillor talked about this in “Lake Wobegon Days”

Compost.

One of our neighbors puts zucchini and cukes on a table next to tthe road with a sign “free veggies”

The only time they lock the doors in Lake Wobegon is zucchini season.

Take the zucchini to the food bank where they will be appreciated.

It is a well known fact that one zucchini plant will feed the entire neighborhood. Whether they want it or not.