Put them at the end of the driveway in bags or boxes with a free sign and some smaller bags or boxes for packing.

They generally disappeared in a few hours tops.

My mind immediately flew to a book I saw years ago: Why cucumbers are better than men.

I only put in 4 hills (12 plants) and have dozens of cukes with more on the way. I will pickle a few and take some to work. I make "refrigerator" pickles, because I don't have canning equipment. They are really good.

Yet, I don't have a red tomato! When those babies start to ripen, I will be swimming in them.

Took extras to our local food shelf on its giveaway day -and they were gone before I left!


oh, and Senior centers as well.

My jalapeno is hot and my tomatos are red!

It's just about cucumbers.

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... with sugar (or its substitute)and you have an incredible Japanese cucumber salad.
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Or you could go the Chinese route and cube them with raw minced garlic, sesame oil and rice wine vinegar and chili flakes.

ok a quart of that will use one or two...sort of like zucchini bread - why the fuck do people suggest making that to use up the train car load you got from that ONE plant? the recipe uses 3 cups of zucchini - what is that like 2? a quarter of one of those mutants you missed and let grow for 2 more hours?

zucchini bread bwahahahahaha

was happy to discover that chickens like to eat overgrown zucchini.

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... stewed tomatoes and italian spices and onions and mozzarella cheese and freeze them in
foil loaf pans.
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It was WAY too watery and we would pick out the delicious baked mozzarella and spices and
the rest would pretty much go to waste.
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MiddleFingerMomDad was an amazing gardener, but he never DID figure out how to scale back
on his zucchini plants enough.
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The MiddleFingerMomKids would be sent out through the neighborhood delivering paper grocery
bags filled with tomatoes (welcomed) and zucchini (no WAY getting even all those delicious
homegrown tomatoes could compensate for getting all those zucchini).
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The neighbors all took to turning off their TV sets and hiding behind their curtains when we
came a-callin' with free produce. We just knew they were back there. We KNEW it.
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So we took to abandoning the grocery bags on their front porches.
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NO ONE EXPECTS... ... ... ... THE SQUASHIST DISTRIBUTION!!!!!
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cover them with tomatoes before you give them to the recipients. That works at least one time before they get wise to it.

Just slice them thin (both cucumbers and sweet onions like Vidalia or Walla Walla), put them in a mason jar or other sealed container, add a little sugar, and enough red-wine vinegar to cover. Shake it all up and call me in the mornin'.

It should marinate in the fridge for at least twelve hours before you indulge, but it will keep for at least two weeks.

Just saying!

My middle daughter's good at that.

staples cucumbers all over the Lounge, including the exits.

Because there are still plenty left, she donates them to MadinMaryland for paying tolls through Delaware.

chickens, the pigs.....


they WON'T STOP GROWING!



not that i'm complaining. i love cukes!

I mean each night I'm eating an entire cucumber while I watch some TV. I normally don't allow mine to get more than 6 inches long else not as tasty.

start a tab!

I wasn't going to plant any cucumbers this year, just a couple tomato plants and 1 yellow squash. But I had a volunteer - a cucumber plant grew spontaneously from cucumber seeds dropped from last years garden. I didn't have the heart to kill it. I have taken about 20 cucumbers from that 1 plant this season with no end in sight.