This year, 2025, I set out to have a “real garden”. I started out with 4 tomato plants; Early Girl, Beef Stake, Mortgage Lifter, and the 1,000 Cherry Tomato. The “Mortgage Lifter” is about how the inventor of the plant paid off his mortgage by selling 100 plants to raise $1,000.00 dollars. It is supposed to produce a 2 to 3 pound tomato. Anyway, I planted them along our Mini Barn, so they could climb. I guess, the tomato plants got me excited, and one plant led to another, so that every few days, I was planting an array of vegetables. In my rose garden, along the gardenia patch, along the Lilly plants, and anywhere I could find a spot. I had gathered egg plant, cucumber, okra, bush beans, jalapeno peppers, and of course, zucchini.
Oh, the zucchini! Why did I think I needed 3 plants of zucchini? Was I prepared to feed the entire court that I live on? It was fun at first; they were hid among these gigantic leaves. One, two, three, and then an all-out explosion. It seemed every day there were more. If I noticed right away, they were sweet little guys. But if I didn’t notice, and one got hidden, it was the size of a baseball bat.
They vine, you know, first up the back of the mini barn, then out to the yard, over to the rose garden, headed for the driveway! I am only in July, and I can’t imagine what we will have by September. Perhaps I can dole them out to the homeless down on Main Street. Or, go door to door in my neighbourhood peddling the little treasures. I could ask the question: would you like to make zucchini bread, fried zucchini, zucchini salad, stuffed zucchini, spaghetti zucchini, how about a zucchini smoothie? Surely, you want some of my zucchini.
While I really do love zucchini, I have to stop and think how humorous God is. Just a small little plant, that no one pays much attention to, until you look out your window and notice a skyscraper of vines invading the entire garden area. So, please people, look me up, find my house, knock on my door, and bring your bags, boxes, bushels, buckets, or whatever you may have, and help yourself. Oh, the zucchini!
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