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rwinsouthla · #21 07/27/08, 10:38 PM

These posts are hilarious!!!! It's so funny...my neighbors stopped answering their doorbells this year. I'm trying to kill the zuchini plants right now. I haven't watered them in about 3 weeks but they keep producing. The only things on my road that will eat them are my chickens!!!! I think even the mice and rats in my garden are tired of them! I thought about mulching with about 36" of hay......seems like a waste of good hay though.

wendys_goats · #22 07/27/08, 11:03 PM

We give our over grown and extras to the chickens. Hey cheap food.

mammabooh · #23 07/28/08, 06:36 AM

I've used a couple of the overgrown zucchini and a couple of overgrown cucumbers to entertain our Blue Heeler puppy. She loves to chase them and then eat them once they get smashed up. She sure likes to nose through the compost pile too!

Melissa · #24 07/28/08, 09:30 AM

Today I am making zucchini lasagna, just use slices of zucchini instead of noodles.

DenverGirlie · #25 07/28/08, 01:07 PM

We will be doing zucchini spaghetti tonight, taking a peeler and making zucchini ribbons topped with normal spaghetti meat sauce.

quadcam79 · #26 07/28/08, 01:19 PM

I didnt grow any zucchini but I went into the store the other day to pick up a few things and I was browsing the veggies and noticed they were wiped out of zucchini..never would have expected that. I just read "animal vegetable, miracle", great book by the way..but the zucchini part was hilarious and it was the first thing I thought of when i saw this post

Elizabeth · #27 08/31/08, 12:05 PM

We planted ONE plant this year and we already have too much zucchini, lol.

tamsam · #28 08/31/08, 01:24 PM

One can never get to much zuc. We grind it and freeze in 2 cup amounts and use it all winter for zucchini bread, poor mans crab cakes, or mix an egg, a little flour with it and make patties and fry it. Sure does taste good when there is snow covering everything. Even the bunnies like the bread. Have fun with your zucs. Saam

katlupe · #29 08/31/08, 05:57 PM

We are eating zucchini stir fry on brown rice tonight. Love it myself! Here is a recipe that I use for either kind yellow or zucchini.

This Can't be Squash Casserole

4 pounds yellow squash, cooked with salt,
well drained, mashed
1/2 stick butter or margarine
1 medium onion, chopped
1 cup bread crumbs, (seasoned
preferred, but not necessary)
1 can cream of mushroom, celery or chicken soup
2/3 soup can milk
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup Cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

Cook the onion in the butter just till tender. Combine all ingredients until well mixed. Spray 9 x 13-inch pan with nonstick spray, spread mixture evenly in pan. * (Can be covered and refrigerated several hours or overnight at this point.)

Bake uncovered, in 350 to 375 degrees F* oven until lightly browned on edges and bubbly, about 45 minutes to an hour.

katlupe

mnn2501 · #30 08/31/08, 07:20 PM

My zucchini totally flopped this year as did a lot of my garden, I actually bought some zucchini yesterday.

wwubben · #31 08/31/08, 07:50 PM

My chickens are not eating the zukes nearly as fast as they were last week.We are still eating them and baking and freezing bread.