I thought I was so smart.  I wasn’t going to be fooled by the temptress that is a zucchini plant.  I remember the pleading calls of zucchini growers from last year.  “What can you do with excess zucchinis??????????”   In Western Australia, you cannot give them away in summer.

I went to visit  my neighbour, Renate, last week to strip her cumquat tree and we got chatting.  Before I knew it, and when my defences were down, she asked, ‘Would you like some zucchini?”  “Just one”, I knowingly replied, visualising a kitchen full of the monsters. Continue reading →