Question about a Mutant Zucchini - Democratic Underground

The empressof all

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Sun Sep-20-09 02:54 PM
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Question about a Mutant Zucchini

I found a huge (half an arm sized) zucchini hiding in plain sight in the garden. Great...I have everything in the pantry for zucchini bread so thought I'd spend a few hours in the kitchen. I went to slice it open to start shredding it and it was hard like a winter squash. When I did get it cut the flesh was yellow like a butternut. What happened? Do zukes go hard when they reach a certain size. (Oh jeeze.....Keep it clean folks....we're talking veggies)

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Gormy Cuss

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Mon Sep-21-09 05:33 PM
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1. Learn something new every day...

Apparently when they're fully mature the skin will harden.
http://www.westcoastseeds.com/how-to-grow/Vegetable-Seeds/Zucchini

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XemaSab

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Mon Sep-21-09 09:35 PM
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2. Our squashes miscegenated

so at least in our yard, if you discover a new species, it's probably inedible. :shrug:

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LiberalEsto

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Wed Sep-23-09 10:30 AM
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3. Go round up some baseball players

Looks like you've got a nice bat! :)

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The empressof all

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Wed Sep-23-09 10:53 AM
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4. Well I wound up cooking it

After I managed to get it into two pieces, I roasted the two huge parts until softish. I let cool and scooped out all the seeds. The cooked flesh was yellow but with a texture more like zucchini than butternut. It was very very wet so I stuck it in a colander to let it drain a bit. We ate some last night with dinner and woke up this morning so it didn't kill us. I'm going to mix the rest with some parm and bake it with a breadcrumb topping. I'm gonna hack up the other one and bake that one off too today.

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