On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:36:27 -0800, sf > wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:32:33 -0000, "Ophelia"
> wrote:
>
>> btw I wanted to ask, do you peel your zucchini? I always do but wanted to
>> ask.
>
>Never! Maybe I would if I bought gigantic zucchini, but I have never
>seen them in grocery stores - or even the farmer's market. Sometimes
>zucchini was bitter, back when my grandfather had a garden in Michigan
>- so if I grew them at home and I my zucchini was bitter, I'd peel
>them. But the truth is that I've never tasted bitter zucchini since I
>moved to California.

Zucchini don't do that anymore (bitter) Disclaimer: I don't know how
extreme drought with heat would affect garden veggies. I just know
that I can have seasonal variations as a result of cool, cloudy, hot,
dry. I never peel them even if I am going to shred them for cakes or
cookies.
Janet US