Community Garden Update: Not the biggest zucchini I've ever seen...

... but getting there.

The Story of (one of) the Biggest Zucchini I've Ever Seen

Once upon a time, in a garden not-so-far away, there was a happy, overcrowded squash patch.

Almost every day, the young couple that tended the garden would come visit.

Almost every day the young lady would look all over the overcrowded squash patch for juicy 6-inch zucchini. There were some every once in a while, but she kept wanting more. "Zucchini plants are supposed to go crazy with fruit, why aren't mine?" she thought.

"Maybe, they're too crowded. The delicata plants are really taking over," said the young man. He tried to thin them out a bit, but it didn't help.

This continued. Every few days the happy, overcrowded squash plant would have a new zucchini or two, but it still was not enough. It seemed that the happy, overcrowded squash patch was destined to only have zucchini every once in a while, but have lots of delicatas.

Then it happened.

One day, the young couple didn't visit the happy, overcrowded squash patch. The day before they had visited and had found three tiny zucchini that looked they might be ready in a few days... and it was raining... and they wanted to go out to dinner.

The next morning, the young lady was very excited. She wanted to pick those three tiny zucchini and eat them for dinner! She was very excited and dragged her beau out very early in the morning to check on them.

First, she bent down to look at the oldest delicata squash to see if it was ripe enough yet. Not yet, but what's that? A beautiful medium-size zucchini lay right next to the delicata!

"Hmm," she thought. "I don't remember that being there at all!" As she began to cut the beautiful zucchini from the vine she turned her head toward the rest of the patch. "AAAAA!" she shrieked.

Oh no! They young man was sure there must be a monster or maybe a dead hedgehog in the squash patch. "What is it?" he exclaimed anxiously.

"Look!!" she said.

And there it was. He couldn't believe his eyes. In less than two days, one of the cute baby zucchini had turned into a big, beautiful monster, and another zucchini almost as big was right next to it! There were lots of zucchini that day, but none would compare to the biggest of them all.

So, he took it home, took a picture of his arm next too it, to show it's giant size, and then shredded it up for zucchini bread. Everyone lived happily ever after. And so it begins...

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