On 5/3/2012 1:29 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>> We picked about three quarts of green beans today off our one 26 foot
>> row. Washed, snapped, and stringed they're about to get blanched and
>> then frozen and bagged in vacuum bags. We also picked three crookneck
>> squash and three Ichiban eggplant plus a large green bell pepper. In
>> addition we've got a new batch of chard and oakleaf lettuce in green,
>> red, and purple, should make an interesting salad. Thinking of
>> shredding the squash and bagging them for later use in cakes and
>> breads, sliced squash doesn't keep well and turns to mush, doesn't
>> make much difference with shredded used in breads and cakes.
>>
>> George
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> If you let the squash get about alligator-sized and then shred it, it
> freezes a lot better. ;-)
>
> Bob
Eons ago there was an email going around about a guy proud of his squash
crop, zukes if I remember right. Then as the plants continued to produce
he started complaining that the neighbors no longer wanted to see him
coming with a bag. Then the vines took over the rest of his garden. At
the end he used the zukes to build a new garden shed but vowed to never
plant anymore squash.

Looks like we're eating more squash today.