The joke is that this time of year, people lock their doors to guard against friends bearing zucchini. Considering how fast these vegetables grow in the heat, it can be 48 hours between a banana and a baseball bat sized zuke. We love the garden fresh addition to our meals in the form of a side dish (banana sized) or zucchini bread (in the case of a baseball bat). We like how the plants are naturally bunny proof with their large prickly leaves that cover the produce.
What is your favorite vegetable?
Want any zucchini? 😉 ¡Olé! –Rebecca
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I love zucchini flowers as I have also posted it on this week’s CFFC. Have a good day Rebecca.
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Great, thanks Teresa. I look forward to seeing it’
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Ah yes. The joke round here is that you give your friends one courgette, and your enemies six. Now then. Have you any broad beans going spare? And … no poems this month …?
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Thanks, Margaret. I love that addition! No broad beans growing, sorry! Thanks for asking about the poems, I really appreciate it. Taking a break for the summer and will be back with the poetry challenges in September.
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Great. I’m not sorry. Somewhat brain dead actually.
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Tired from running after grandkids?
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Not yet. That was Spain. The next lot are yet to come. But running around anyway!
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Ok, always lots to do. 🙂 Great you’re seeing the grandkids after the isolation of the last year.
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Well, I hadn’t heard about these zucchini / courgette neighbourly threats. Perhaps I haven’t got enough friends 😉
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I hadn’t heard of it until I moved to Wisconsin fifteen years ago! You seem to be quite popular 😉
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My grandchildren just brought me two. I like zucchini served most ways, but the best is zucchini bread.
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Wonderful, when will the bread be ready? 😉 Thanks for your comments.
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Help help, the courgettes have taken over and declared independence (hubby planted 7 plants , son moved back home with three more)
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Thanks, Kim! Really funny. That’s a lot of plants, must be very productive!
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I love the veggie and the blossom! Have a great weekend.
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Thank you, Irene! Any plans this weekend?
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I operate a definite no-zucchini area but I do love zuccini flowers deep fried. It will also be obvious that I don’t like marrow either! Now cucumbers, that’s a different matter. I eat as many mini-cucumbers as I can grow.
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Good to set your boundaries for the zucchini, Mari. 😉 Small, just picked cucumbers are delicious!
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Sounds delicious! I don’t have a favorite veggie – I love them all.
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Thanks, Michele. Great to hear it 🙂
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I’ve yet to acquire the taste for zucchinis. I prefer cucumbers and planted them again this year. Last year, the caterpillars feasted on the leaves. When blossoms did appear, they bore no vegetables. Here’s hoping my three plants do better this year.
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Hope you can keep the caterpillars at bay this year, Rosaliene. Fresh cucumbers are very refreshing on a hot summer day.
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I WISH I had friends who bombarded me with zucs! I love to use them in soups & salads, stuff & grill them, and put them in smoothies! I couldn’t claim a favorite veggie; I can’t think of a single one that I don’t love! 🌞
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Thanks, Lisa. I love to hear when people are enthusiastic about vegetables! We like zucchini all those different ways as well.
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Interesting about their rapid growth. The other day, someone left a large zucchini in the sharing basket, but it wasn’t as big as a baseball bat! Personally, I much prefer zucchini bread to zucchini the vegetable. I’ll eat the vegetable if it’s cooked well, but it’s not my favorite. My favorite vegetable? Hmm, I guess I’d have to say tomatoes, which technically are not a vegetable, but there’s nothing like fresh home-grown tomatoes in t he summer!! (I also really like lima beans, but people think I’m weird when I confess this preference.)
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Thank you for your comments. I sauté zukes in Indian spices and add tamari sauce. That’s our favorite presentation. Ripe garden tomatoes are amazing. Fresh lima beans are great. Frozen, not so much. 😉
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I haven’t tried zucchini this year but have quite a number of cucumbers 😊
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Wonderful, what are your favorite ways of eating them?
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Awesome photography!!
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Thank you very much. I’m touched at your comment!
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