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Cooking & Baking

PJMcK

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10. Zucchini

Reply to NJCher (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 06:17 AM

Sep 2025

The Landlady planted five zucchini seedlings she bought from a reliable Catskills farmer. Only one plant produced any fruit and they were meager. She asked the farmer about it and he said he had the same problem because most of the plants turned out to be males which grow flowers but only females produced the zucchini. Oh, well! The plants themselves are Jurassic!

Thankfully, the rest of her greenhouse garden produced peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and lots of lettuce while her spice garden is magnificent as always.

Back to Manhattan today…

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