I just picked the biggest zucchini I have ever seen.

[TZ]

Housesitting/dogsitter for my mom, I haven't had too much time/energy to go through her garden and pick veggies..But this morning a neighbor and I did..and one zucchini was literally as long as my arm from shoulder to hand and thicker than my arm! Okay, I am short and no muscles but still. Wish I had a camera..Its a giant!!
Two words: zucchini bread...:9

[Roon]

1. or zucchini lasagna!

[jobycom]

2. Careful. Horror movies start like this!

[SoxFan]

3. Locking.

No sex threads.

[TZ]

6. Heh. Yeah

This zucchini is definitely the John Holmes of the vegetable world...:evilgrin:

[Dr. Strange]

11. Didn't Confuscious say that?

This zucchini is definitely the John Holmes of the vegetable world... :evilgrin:

[TZ]

15. No...

I beleive Confucious say "Man never want to let zucchini grow too large..otherwise man's ego (and other things) suffer in comparison..":rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

18. This does not look like a zuchini:

[TZ]

20. O-M-G!!!!

I KNEW I could count on you...IBTL!!!:rofl: :patriot:

[Deja Q]

4. Hey, do you have a camera?

[Auggie]

5. Summer garden dialog:

DAY ONE: "Hey everybody -- the first zucchini's of the summer are here!

DAY TWO: "Wow -- nothing better than garden fresh zucchini!"

DAY THREE: "Zucchinis sure grow fast, don't they?"

DAY FOUR: "Zuchini... uh..."

DAY FIVE: "Can we order a pizza?"

[Jade Fox]

7. A zucchini poem

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/attack-of-the-squash-people/


Attack of the Squash People


And thus the people every year
in the valley of humid July
did sacrifice themselves
to the long green phallic god
and eat and eat and eat.
They're coming, they're on us,
the long striped gourds, the silky
babies, the hairy adolescents,
the lumpy vast adults
like the trunks of green elephants.
Recite fifty zucchini recipes!

Zucchini tempura; creamed soup;
sauté with olive oil and cumin,
tomatoes, onion; frittata;
casserole of lamb; baked
topped with cheese; marinated;
stuffed; stewed; driven
through the heart like a stake.

Get rid of old friends: they too
have gardens and full trunks.
Look for newcomers: befriend
them in the post office, unload
on them and run. Stop tourists
in the street. Take truckloads
to Boston. Give to your Red Cross.
Beg on the highway: please
take my zucchini, I have a crippled
mother at home with heartburn.

Sneak out before dawn to drop
them in other people's gardens,
in baby buggies at churchdoors.
Shot, smuggling zucchini into
mailboxes, a federal offense.

With a suave reptilian glitter
you bask among your raspy
fronds sudden and huge as
alligators. You give and give
too much, like summer days
limp with heat, thunderstorms
bursting their bags on our heads,
as we salt and freeze and pickle
for the too little to come.

Marge Piercy

[KamaAina]

8. And it's only July!

Back in Conn., it was around Labor Day before people started to close the blinds when they saw a neighbor coming up the drive with yet another bag of you-know-what.

On the bright side, if the repukes manage to screw things up completely, zucchini might be all that stands between the Northeast Corridor and mass starvation...

[kineneb]

9. zucchini:or why people in the midwest lock their cars in summer

or at least according to Garrison Kiellor... so they don't come out to find the car packed with zuchs.

[NNN0LHI]

10. They taste better small to medium sized

Once the get too big I no longer consider them edible.

http://www.gardenersnet.com/vegetable/zucchini.htm

Harvesting:

Pick zucchini when they are young (four to six inches) and tender. Some people wait until the fruit becomes a monster. While definitely still edible, it is tougher and the skin may need to be peeled.

Some people enjoy seeing just how big they can grow them! If this is you, grow one or two monsters for show. Pick small ones to eat.

[mainegreen]

12. Agreed.

Baby zucchini are the best to use. When they get big, it's all seeds and toughness.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. grate the big ones, freeze in the right quantity for zucchini bread

keeps well in freezer for this purpose

[madinmaryland]

13. PEV!!!

[TZ]

14. No..Rake!

Hoe! Trowel! Gardening you....:rofl:

[begin_within]

16. You can hollow it out, stuff it and bake it

Here are some recipes:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search?q=baked+stuffed+zucchini

[MrScorpio]

19. Just remember, It's a vegetable

Not a date!

[hvn_nbr_2]

21. I've had bigger in girth...

I've had them as big around as an eggplant but only about a foot and a half long. If you miss picking them when they're conventional zucc size, they get big in a hurry.