Pickles by Brian Crane for September 18, 2012

At our house it was tomatoes. And green beans. To this day, if I close my eyes I can see rows of green bean plants. We kids were sent out to pick em, and you knew if you picked em, the plant would make more.

I know one idea Opal can do with her zucchini: not give them to Andi Fox. Another idea is two worded: farmer’s market.

You two wouldn’t have this problem every year ifyou would just not plant any zucchini.

You really know who your real friends are , if you grow zucchini.

Here Zook! Here boy . . . . . play dead! Good boy, good Zook!

When I was a kid, we would put them in a paper sack and set them on the neighbors front porch. We would then ring the doorbell and run like hell.

make zucchini bread yummy!

If it talks back, give it to the neighbor, that you don’t like!

Sunday morning, go to church. Slip out in the middle of the service, put the zucchini in the backseat of the first car you find unlocked. It’ll serve ’em right. ;-)

Curb your zucchini.

I’d like it if they would give me free zucchini. It’s hard to get it here without paying an arm and a leg for it. Zucchini bread with chocolate chips is delicious!

August 8th is the official “Sneak some zucchini onto your neighbor’s porch Day”. Really. I love zucchini, but have never had a place to grow it.

local food pantry or soup kitchen. They can make something good from your over abundance

I hate the stuff.

Just buy what you need at the store…No problem.

They let them go too long. Slice thin, cook with onions, garlic and cheese.

I found out that we actually have a national day to leave zucchini on your neighbor’s doorstep

Very clever, Earl.

LOL xxx

Don’t plant so much next year. One plant yields tons.

Zucchini and watermelons are the gifts that keep on giving. No matter how you cut them back, the prolific buggers will take over.

At least it is not a cat, if it were Nelson would now be staff.

Zucchini must be really easy to grow. People are pawning them off on me all summer. What I CAN’T understand is…why are the so freaking expensive in the grocery store?

Plant a Row For the Hungry

Zucchini bread! Yum yum!!

How come no one ever grows a surplus of produce that people like and really will eat,like (yummy!) tomatoes?

OK, I need to try zucchini next … tried to grow “homemade salsa” … got the tomato plants, the onions, the jalapeno peppers and the cilantro … roving animals ate all the tomatos, the peppers came late and the cilantro blossomed and died before everything else was ready … the onions are still growing – in a cheap $11 kiddie pool filled with soil I got from Walmart … LOL … (zucchini bread with chocolate chips … sounds very interesting!)

Why, when they have this problem every year, do they keep planting them every year?