I looooove mushrooms. I refuse to grow either eggplant or zucchini, on the grounds that in the time it takes for me to make it palatable, I could’ve fixed two other sides plus an entree.
A gardening writer I follow, David the Good (look him up on Amazon - he’s *hilarious*) did an article on the top ten best food plants for survival in an emergency. It ran along the lines of “winter squash, beans, this, that and the other thing, and...I should tell you to grow that squash thing that starts with a Z, but I refuse because then you might do it and the world doesn’t NEED any more of that plant.”
I’ll look him up! Thanks!
At least he, ‘Speaks Truth to Power’ as the Hippies say, when it comes to zucchini, LOL!