My zucchini plants (why did I plant 8?) all have beautiful yellow blossoms. I forced myself not to buy a single zucchini since last year so I’d enjoy them, before the invasion of zucchini all over my counters, filling up the vegetable bins, neighbors avoiding me begins.
Potato plants had a horrible potato beetle infestation and it took a month to get rid of them. The plants still haven’t recovered, and i’m not sure they will now.
Beets, cabbage, onions, radishes, cucumbers, beans, and corn all growing well. I must be farther north than many here because I’m not close to getting anything harvestable - other than zucchini. And Swiss chard. I love the stuff (chard) so I way overplanted and already have frozen a batch. Luckily it shrinks down to nothing...
Dehydrate your zucchini and use the powder to make zucchini bread this winter.
http://homegrownandhealthy.com/what-to-do-with-overgrown-zucchini/
The dehydrating seed bit probably won’t work out if the temp was over 105F or so on the dehydrating tray. Rest of the ideas are great though.
I find it hard to handle more than 2 zukes. Hubby always plants too many, but the cucurbits haven’t been doing to well last few years.
We are totally out of the zuke spears, and dill pickles, so I hope he gets a batch this year. Still have plenty of relish though. When I first made it, Hubby was eating a pint a week, so I wound up canning 60 pints.
Then I did pickles and stuff, so he slowed down on the relish. If he doesn’t get zukes and cukes this year, he might go back to some serious relish eating.
My potato plants were doing real good. Then we had 10 days straight of rain and storms, that laid them over on the ground, and they never became up right again. Then the weather turned hot and dry, so I put some wood chips on them for mulch (I usually use straw).
They have the most disgusting sickly leaves now. So I’m not sure what that is. I dug enough up for just this week, and picked the worst looking ones to dig up. Hoping the others will keep on keeping on.
Well I’m on the Eastern Side of Missouri, at about the midpoint about 75 miles south of St. Louis, so there’s lots of place North and South of me. LOL