[andysandmikesmom]

Gadzooks...all this fine veggie talk, is making me hungry...

When we were living in North Carolina, we always had a huge veggie garden...and with all that heat, the garden began early in the year, and ended late....

We always grew lots of squash and zucchini...and of course, before one knows it, there is zucchini coming out of your ears, and one was always trying to come up with new ways to use that zucchini...I guess our favorite way was homemade zucchini bread....I made that stuff, it seems once a week, not wanting to waste any of it...

But I always left a few zucchini, on the vine, just to see how big they would grow, and some sure grew big...the boys would go out, and pick one of those huge zucchinis, and use it as a bat, to hit hard green tomatoes....Ah, a new sport...veggie baseball...

[grannie9]

Now I have to go cook some Keilbasa.. yassah..

[lodwick]

yes - the only downside to the home garden is ALL that produce ripening at the same time. But you make new friends by giving it away to the neighbors and trading receipes on how to use it all.

Some of our best friends are those we made in the old neighborhood, when we were just starting out, and had to borrow things from the neighbors.

In this hood, everyone can afford to have at least one of everything, and there's not the same sense of neighborliness - everyone's great, but you just don't shout over the fence, "Hey there, can I borrow your weedeater when you're done?"