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About this time of summer people start bombarding their family and friends with ridiculous amounts of zucchini.  I'm already seeing posts joking about how prolific easy-to-grow zucchini plants are.  My favorite one so far is Robin, the Garden Examiner's "Top 10 Signs You Have Too Much Zucchini".  I love number 8. . .

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Posted by Gina Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2008-07-22, 05:59:37

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Every time I grow zucchini, I make the same mistake. I turn my back for a couple days and this happens:

Will I never learn?

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Posted by Claire Splan Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2008-07-12, 05:57:31

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I recently got a question from Anne, from my home state of Michigan. Anne asks: "I planted four zucchini plants in my vegetable garden this year, and I was so excited...

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I was surprised at how pretty my zucchini leaves are. They have a mottled silver gray pattern that is very bright on the mature leaves.

Someone asked if this is mildew. No. Its a natural pattern on healthy zucchini leaves. Different cultivars have different shaped leaves and different amounts of silver.

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Posted by kathy Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2008-07-01, 06:33:05

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Looking to grow a plant that is easy to grow, and puts out more food than you could ever eat? A plant that makes you madly search the internet, the library, the bookshelf for any new recipe to make it taste different? And a plant that actually makes you glad that fall is coming so that the frost will kill the darn thing? If so, this is the plant for you. Ooh - guess that’s not your typical ode, is it?. . .

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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2008-01-21, 00:28:36

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Usually we're done pulling zucchini and cucumber out of the garden by mid-Septemberish (at the very latest). But, this is what we harvested this morning:

While most people are complaining about the heat lasting this long, I'm quite happy about it. No cold = no need for fuel. I know darn well that we'll get paid back for all this warmth keeping the temps of the lakes up when we end up with ridiculous amounts of lake effect snows this winter, but I'm still happy it's not cold!. . .

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Posted by Tina Reblogged by Old Roses to harvest, zucchini on 2007-10-09, 00:52:32

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I made use of a couple of slightly overgrown 'Gold Rush' yellow zucchini. Yum.

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Posted by Angela Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2007-09-16, 00:15:23

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This year I decided that I'm a huge fan of Zucchini. Go Zucchini!!!

Sure I've grown it in the past but just a plant or two in the corner of one of my beds. This year, thanks to a mix up with my seed order, I had a lot more room in my garden. Usually I'll reserve a lot of space for a bunch of crook neck squash but somehow I forgot to order it and so I decided, why not grow a bunch of Zucchini instead? And looking back, I really glad I did. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-31, 06:34:11

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I'm hesitant to even mention this in a post, because I feel funny about having a stat counter on my blog, and for some reason I have felt uncomfortable when other people have mentioned the stats on their blogs. This was just kind of humorous to me so I thought I'd share it. Hopefully it won't make anyone feel uncomfortable to know that I occasionally do check my stats, mainly out of curiosity to see what it is that draws people to my blog, by looking at the point of entry. . . .

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Posted by Robin's Nesting Place Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-29, 06:38:56

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All last summer, I managed to keep my zucchinis harvested before they got oversized and crazy. I checked diligently, once, sometimes twice a day, and made sure to take them off the plant as soon as the blossoms at the end started to liquefy and drop off.

This year, I have been less diligent, but so far, had been all manner of lucky. . .

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Posted by inadvertentgardener Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-12, 06:14:29

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Botanically speaking a fruit is the part of a plant that contains the seed. With this definition in mind we could call something from the garden a fruit if we eat the part with the seed. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and green beans would be examples of fruit. Lettuce, celery, radishes and carrots would then be vegetables.

These are not the definitions we use in cooking or when eating however. Luckily this whole mess was cleared up in 1893 when the United States Supreme Court declared the tomato a vegetable instead of a fruit. In that case, they wisely gave us our current definitions of fruits and vegetables. They said a vegetable is something we eat with lunch or dinner and a fruit was something sweet that was generally eaten as dessert. . . .

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Posted by Marc Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-10, 06:24:04

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Tired of that same old, same old, when it comes to growing summer squash in the backyard vegetable garden?

Would you like to ambush and surprise your friends before they realize what’s about to hit them as you approach bearing armloads of surplus zucchinis? . . .

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Posted by Kenny Point Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-09, 06:57:07

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Posted by Colleen Vanderlinden (nospam@example.com) Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-07, 06:55:46

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I am growing a new type of zucchini this summer called Eight Ball. This is the first one so far, and I think that I should have picked it a little sooner. The seed came from Pinetree Garden Seeds, a company located here in Maine. Because this one grew so well, I will try a cream colored zucchini from the same catalog called Cue Ball next season.
The morning glories are from a 10 cent packet of seeds. This is the third color to bloom. The flowers are nice, but the vines are kind of stringy. I can’t complain, considering the cost. You can guess where I bought them!

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Posted by Sandy Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-06, 00:03:26

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Posted by sandy Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-08-05, 17:59:23

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This is 39 second action thriller video where the gardener searches the dark and dangerous underworld of a squash bed in search of a lurking zucchini. I won't reveal the final ending, but its almost as exciting as the last few pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Well, to a fanatic gardener anyway...

At some point in the video, you can see the white cheesecloth I wrapped around one or two of the squash stems. This is a non-chemical experiment to protect from squash vine borers, which are always a problem for me. I only wrapped a couple just because I never got around to doing the rest. I'm curious to see if the wrapped ones do better.

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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-07-24, 00:28:58

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A post by Carol of May Dreams Gardens made me laugh the other day. She was bemoaning the fact that she'd forgotten to check her zucchini (courgettes to the British - not to mention the French) and they'd exploded into growth overnight. I grew up having no idea they could be eaten small! In fifties and sixties England they were always left to get huge before we harvested, and for us they were called marrows. I must have been in my late teens before I came across these suspiciously foreign-looking things called courgettes that they ate in France. And it was a long time afterwards that it clicked that they weren't a "new" vegetable, but nothing but baby marrows. . . .

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Posted by Sue Swift Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2007-07-16, 00:41:49

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This zucchini bread recipe came from a lady at the church we attended in Alabama. I love it because it is so versatile and the muffins come out of the oven with a perfectly delicious crispy top. I sometimes make pumpkin butter in the fall and use it in this recipe for pumpkin muffins. When I juice carrots I have leftover pulp and will use that to make carrot muffins. Yum!. . .

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Posted by Robin's Nesting Place Reblogged by Old Roses to carrots, recipes, zucchini on 2007-07-13, 06:23:16

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Posted by Colleen Vanderlinden (nospam@example.com) Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-07-06, 06:02:02

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As experienced gardeners, we know that there are going to be problems each year. Bugs, weeds, plant diseases, too much rain, too little rain, late frost, early frost, rabbits, deer, the list could go on and on.

As a matter of general policy, I tend not to discuss any of these problems in any detail or to a great extent with those who don't garden. They don't seem to understand what compels a gardener to keep trying year after year in spite of these potential and real problems. . ..

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-07-04, 06:40:17

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Earlier today, I noticed that one of the "Cue Ball" zucchini was getting to be a pretty good size, which is when I realized that I wasn't quite sure what size it should be for harvesting. After a quick online search, I decided that it should be about three inches wide. . . .

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-07-04, 06:39:53

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Posted by Colleen Vanderlinden (nospam@example.com) Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-07-04, 06:35:37

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And so begins the challenge of learning how to cook gobs of zucchini. I picked #2 and #3 from the garden on Thursday, along with a good handful of French tarragon, parsley, and cilantro. . . .

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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-07-02, 18:23:14

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June 10... planted late, in the ground, the lazy way (from starts)


June 27

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Posted by Angela Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-06-30, 06:08:15

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My first zucchini is here! Ta-dah! OK, I realize the more experienced gardeners among you are probably thinking: What's the big deal? Zucchini is notoriously the easiest vegetable to grow in large quantities. Most people have trouble finding enough ingenious ways to give it away. . . .

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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-06-24, 17:36:17

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I've planted several types of cucurbitaceae in the back part of the plot this year. (And boy, do I feel like Hermione for just having uttered the word cucurbitaceae.) This includes cucumbers, crookneck squash, one of my butternut squash plants that is still hanging on after the initial shock of being set outside, and one zucchini plant. Out of all of these, the zucchini plant has been doing the best. It's been growing fast and already has quite a few buds at its center. My mouth begins to water at the thought having the chance to try fried squash blossoms. . . .

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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-06-01, 06:17:13

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The zucchini is up. A little yellow on the edges. I don't think it liked all the rain. That's OK - were having zucchini weather this week - sunny and warm.

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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to seedlings, zucchini on 2007-05-24, 18:41:11

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I have been called many things in my life, but this one was a first for me: A Vegetable Goddess.

At least that's what I am in the eyes of Freddie, a seven-year-old boy who is working his way through the A to Z of vegetables in The Great Big Vegetable Challenge. To earn such high esteem from Freddie, all I did was recommend a recipe to help him stomach the current vegetable on the C List -- courgette -- or zucchini, as some of us call it. . . .

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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2007-03-04, 16:43:31

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The last of the famous giant zucchinis.  The monster plant finally bit the dust with the colder weather that we’ve been having, so we picked the remaining zukes.

I don’t really want to grow this variety again last year.  It grew out of control and took up way too much space at the back of the yard.  If you take a look at the picture linked above, taken back in August, picture a plant at least twice as big.  The zucchinis tasted great, but they never turned the deep yellow colour that was advertised on the package.   There are plenty of other types out there just waiting to be tried.

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Posted by gremlin Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2006-10-17, 00:49:16

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I'm not sure what I did wrong, but a zucchini harvest was not in the cards this year. All year I've had two puny zucchini plants that produced prolific flowers - both male and female - but produced no fruit. At first I thought it was squash vine borers, but the plants actually did okay. Then I thought maybe it was a lack of pollinators, but in the middle of the summer as I watched the bees attack the zucchini and the adjacent oregano, I knew this wasn't true. . .

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Posted by Talbin Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2006-10-13, 15:43:37

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Posted by noemail@noemail.org (Angela) Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2006-09-20, 16:19:20

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Ok, now some of you may find this disturbing on several levels... just plain wrong... but if you're the type of person whose heart races a little at the thought of a yellow zucchini sporting a man's face, then Vegiforms are for you. . . .

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Posted by noemail@noemail.org (Angela) Reblogged by Old Roses to whimsy, zucchini on 2006-09-19, 00:01:12

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Ok, it's not really a fair winning zucchini but it is fairly large.  I think you're supposed to pick them sooner.  This one measures 12 inches long, 13 inches around and nearly 4 pounds.   That's one thing that Washington can grow really well...zucchinis.

Ok..grammar question...is it 13 inches round or 13 inches around or 13 inches a round?

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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to zucchini on 2006-09-11, 19:07:22

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Right now gardeners everywhere are wondering what in the heck they can do with the wheelbarrow full of zucchini piled on the kitchen counter. Having completely mastered the task of getting their plants to produce, they are now overwhelmed. People cringe when gardeners are carrying brown paper bags; friends hide when they see them coming. This is a sad state of affairs. What you are eating instead of zucchini is likely adding pounds to your middle. Give them a chance. Learn some new culinary tricks for this low calorie food and your middle will thank you. . ..

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Posted by Harvest Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2006-09-09, 11:23:33

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Layer the zuchnni and onions in a small crock or a bowl made of glass or ceramic. Sprinkle each layer with pickling salt - do not use regular table salt. Cover with water and weight down the top with a small plate or bowl. Let sit for two hours.

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Posted by Kathi Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2006-09-09, 11:15:43

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Cut up 2 pounds of small zuchinni and two medium onions

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Posted by Kathi Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2006-09-09, 11:15:35

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Use two cups of vinegar and two cups of water. Add fresh dill from the garden, or dill seed and pickling spices. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

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Posted by Kathi Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2006-09-09, 11:15:26

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After the brine has simmered for the 5 minutes, add Zuchinni and Onions and bring back to a boil. Turn off, cover and let sit for two hours, stirring occasionally.

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Posted by Kathi Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2006-09-09, 11:15:13

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Use clean jars. Check the rims to make sure there are no cracks or nicks that will interfer with the seal. Then put fresh dill and garlic in jar before filling with the zuchinni and onions.

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Posted by Kathi Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, zucchini on 2006-09-09, 11:15:05

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It is really important to run a knife along the edge all around the inside to get the air bubbles out. Trapped air bubbles can cause a bad seal. After putting the seals on , process in a b