Have you been a victim of an overabundance of Zucchini? Maybe you have found a Zucchini surprise in your car or at your front door from a "loving neighbor".
I had 4 plants last year and boy did those guys go crazy. My gardening neighbor Steve and I decided that we are not doing Zucchini this year only because we had too much last year.
Just as I was going to pack up the seeds for another year, I found a delightful recipe in Bon Appetit, which utilizes the flowers of the plant. My good friend Karen Walterson has been doing this for some time, but guess I did not think I would have enough blooms to try something different.
The previous years, I would harvest the Zucchini, shred it, freeze it and then bake muffins, and bread for the neighborhood for Christmas. Last year I baked over 750 muffins, not the small ones by the way. Let me tell you I bought more flour and sugar last Christmas than I have in my lifetime.
So with that said, I am breaking the seeds back out and going to give the Zucchini Blooms recipe a try.
If you want something easy to grow and very hearty and long lasting this is your plant. Zucchini seeds are large so they are very easy to handle, trust me when I say you don't have to have high dollar soil for them, I actually think they would grow well on the rock cliffs of Flaming Gorge. Have you have seen some of the trees and plants that grow in very unusual places at Flaming Gorge? if so you know what I am talking about.
Plant the seed only about a month before you want to put them outside, they are fast growers. While they are easy to grow they do not like the frost, however the big outside leaves will sometimes protect the inner, smaller leaves so the plant will continue to grow if they should be stricken with frost.
Zucchini plants love water, but don't worry if you forget to water for a day and they are hit by the sun, and look droopy, you may be able to revive them with a large drink of water when you remember.
They produce like crazy, small to large, you will have Zucchini like crazy, have fun with them.
