I tried my hand at gardening this summer, just like I have the past four summers. I am of the easy-does-it gardener variety and I populate my gardens with the tomato and squash varieties found in the greater Northeast Wal-mart stores. Sometimes, I throw an eggplant or pepper plant in for fun, but they never yield anything (and I mean ANYTHING) reminding me I am not of the green thumb nature. This year, I tried the lettuce to great success and discovered the wonderful weed preventer called mulch. However, I forgot the mulch keeps in moisture and did nothing to cancel that out with drainage plans, so my zuchinni plants were in soggy ground. The zuchinni kept rotting before it got to be any bigger than finger size. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I am at my parents' house (where all my gardens grow) looking out the window, thinking it is time to turn over another garden, when I spotted it. I saw it from all the way in the house. I couldn't believe the garden fairy had left me such an amazing gift. It was a "country-fair-blue-ribbon" sized squash. We tried to give it to my brother-in-law for his birthday, but he didn't seem too keen on it. Then, today, Josh, the Hatchetman, turned it into two entire chicken zuchinni casseroles when I wasn't looking. I didn't even get to name it. Even though I had two weeks to do so. Oh, well. Here's to the miracle of the zuchinni, may it live up to it's size with it's taste.
2 comments:
Wow! No zucchini bread or anything? I just made some zucchini cookies. They are good. Add some chocolate chips and anything is good, right!
That sucker is huge!
glad you enjoyed it. my family has had zucchini bread, zucchini bars, zucchini cookies and zucchini casserole a plenty this summer. our garden did well thankfully and i employ pretty much the same gardening techniques. i'm fortunate. glad you enjoyed your zucchini.
@katrina - you need to have wendy send you the recipe for zucchini casserole. it's yummy.
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