The Zucchini/squash have lots of water in them so if pan frying with oil that becomes an issue. We like to do a sheet pan roast with sliced zucchini/squash, sliced potatoes and onions and maybe some chunks of meat. That comes out pretty nice. The tough part is not turning them to mush.
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I like to slice them lengthwise, brush on some olive oil and grill them.
There’s a couple of varieties of zukes that are firmer. One is “Costata Romanesco.” I know the guy who developed that breed, and his comment was, “The only reason to eat OTHER kinds of zucchinis is you’re thirsty.” 
Gardener’s Rule for Zucchini: One plant isn’t enough; two is six too many.
We’ve also shredded masses of zukes and dried them in the food dryer. Zucchini bread and zuke waffles all winter long, yay.
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Just tossin’ an update…
Squash coming along. Tomatoes now actually showing tomatoes. Potatoes beginning to grow together into a carpet of green in that corner. Corn is waist-high and some stalks are showing the beginning of tassels. Peas showing pods. Onions getting bigger. Carrots need to be thinned. I spent a couple hours weeding in the corn, but it’s getting dang hot and will be hotter in the next week, around 100F. We’ll get through it.
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Hotter’n Billy-be-switched the last few days. And now we have dry lightning and some major fires in the area. Wildfire smoke is Canada’s biggest export to the US. [shrug]
Was down in the garden earlier putting a little snack of water on the onions and carrots. Looked at the pea trellis and realized that a few pods were ready. First pea harvest! Yay! Mid-July because here I get 90 days from June 1 to early September and that’s it. I remember my mother, in Oregon just north of One Drop country, always said if she got her peas planted by Valentine’s Day she’d start harvest on her birthday in April.
Ground here is still ringing hard in February. Heh…sometimes in April, too.
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Hey folks, just a veggie garden update. I dig how people are taking different pics and adding them. 
I think that’s really cool!
I did four different variety’s of tomatoe this year. Roma, Little Napoli, Beefmaster, and my personal fave The Fat Mama. I had a couple issues with Blossom End Rot on about half the plants. I adjusted the pH and now they’re coming back strong. I’ve had some good cucumbers so far this year, next year I plan on doing a lot more of those. They’re easy to grow and very productive.
Back to the tomatoes. The romas are coming in really thick. They, in addition to the little Napoli, are the two that haven’t had any issues. So I’ll be doing more of those next year. My zucchini plant is getting a bit big for the bucket. I’ll probably have to tie them together, at the base, to take the weight load off from the fruit if I want to get any more Zukes outa them.
It’s been a lot of fun, watching them grow. If there was an adult equivalent (subdued naturally) of the Christmas morning feeling kids get, I think it’s watching vegetables, that you didn’t pay for, grow naturally so you can eat them. If you’d of told me I’d derive the amounts of satisfaction from growing vegetables I get now, to me at 21? I’d of sworn you were crazy 
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