Zucchini & summer squash produce for how long?
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Preserving small zucchini and summer squash
Comments (9)Hi Jenny - since neither can be safely caned except as relish or pickles of some kind, drying or freezing is the best option. But even frozen they will go mushy. We thick slice them, lightly blanch, batter and freeze individual slices on a cookie sheet then into ziplock bags. Per NCHFP: Why is canning summer squash or zucchini not recommended? Recommendations for canning summer squashes, including zucchini, that appeared in former editions of So Easy to Preserve have been withdrawn due to uncertainty about the determination of processing times. Squashes are low-acid vegetables and require pressure canning for a known period of time that will destroy the bacteria that cause botulism. Documentation for the previous processing times cannot be found, and reports that are available do not support the old process. Slices or cubes of cooked summer squash will get quite soft and pack tightly into the jars. The amount of squash filled into a jar will affect the heating pattern in that jar. It is best to freeze or pickle summer squashes, but they may also be dried. If you search this forum using squash or zucchini you'll find many discussions and recipes for both. Dave...See More101 things to make with zucchini or summer squash
Comments (80)Thanks for the great recipes! We planted heirloom zucchini seeds this year and they are coming in strong. We will have tons in no time. I so glad to be able to add some recipes to bag of tricks. I have a great recipe for zucchini bread. I have tried many zucchini bread recipes in the past and this is the very best bread! It is very moist. I'm sure you will love it! Zucchini Bread 1 c zucchini 3/4 c nuts (optional) 1 c any dried fruit (optional) 1 1/4 c flour 3/4 c sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 2 eggs 1/2 c melted butter 1/2 c vanilla yogurt 1 tsp vanilla 1 tsp citrus zest Pre heat oven to 350â¢. Grate zucchini, dry and set aside in small bowl. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg in large bowl and set aside. In medium bowl whisk eggs, melted butter, yogurt, vanilla and zest. Fold into bowl of dry ingredients. Mix well. Add zucchini, nuts and dried fruit. Place in prepared 9X5 pan. This recipe can be easily double. Enjoy! ~Tina~...See Moresummer squash and zucchini
Comments (6)Remy..so glad this subject came up as somebody gave my sister what she said is a yellow squash from their garden and my sister said the squash, even though it is yellow, is so hard, she couldn't even cut it. Does that mean that it is not a summer crookneck squash or it's not ripe? The person that gave it to her is a first time vegetable gardener. Could it possible look like the familiar summer yellow squash and be a different type?...See MoreZucchini/Summer squash pesticide
Comments (8)I find the holes in the stem interesting. Were the stems intact when you planted? I cannot imagine a pest finding your plants so quickly and doing such damage. It almost makes me wonder if the plants were infested when you bought them. Normally, (and I'm in southcentral OK, so I might see pests earlier than y'all do further north) I don't see squash bugs until May or June, and it can vary from year to year. Squash vine borers are more likely to make their first appearance in June. Having either of them active this early in April just seems unlikely unless they traveled with the plants from wherever they were grown to the store and then home with you after you purchased the plants. That doesn't seem real likely either because most plant growers use pesticides in order to deliver healthy plants to the stores/consumers. Normally the SVBs don't even show up until vining cucurbits have been in the ground a while and the vines are beginning to run. There's always a possibility that striped or spotted cucumber beetles might have attacked the plants. They are notorious for showing up and attacking young plants. Either of them would have been about the size of a lady bug and either spotted or striped---we have both here. I did find a striped cucumber beetle on a plant in my garden (a weed) a couple of days ago. One thing about the cucumber beetles is that they will feed on a wide variety of plants while they wait for anything in the cucurbit family to arrive, so they could have been lurking in your area just waiting for some member of the cucumber/squash/pumpkin/melon family to pop up. I often see cucumber beetles even a month before the normal planting time for cucumbers and squash in my area. They often feed on wildflowers, cool-season ornamentals and even corn plants very early in the season. Here's some info from Clemson on cucurbit pests, and it includes a listing of pesticides. If you still have the plant remains, you might want to slit into the stems near the holes and see if anything pest-like is inside the stem. You might find a beetle or a grub inside that would provide a clue. A small whitish grub might be an indicator that you have the earliest squash vine borer infestation I've ever heard of. I'm not saying SVBs cannot appear this early, but just that it would be shocking if they have. Of course, we have had some very hot weather very early this year, so never say never. Cucurbit Pests Hazel, Wrapping them with foil works about the same as wrapping them with other recommended wrappings (nylon stockings, row cover fabric, ace bandages, gauze, etc.), which is to say it will work for a while, but as the plant grows and more and more stems and leaves become available, the SVBs will find their way in. The only way I have had any real success controlling them is by excluding the pests by growing them underneath row cover or netting firmly attached to the ground so the pests cannot fly, creep, crawl or tunnel underneath the covers. If I plant summer squash and zucchini very early (in late March or early April), I usually can get a harvest before the SVBs show up, but once they show up, the plants are on borrowed time. Instead of fighting the SVBs so hard, I just enjoy the regular summer squash early in the year, and grow Korean summer squash later in the year. The Korean squash are C. moschata and have solid stems that thwart the efforts of the borers to bore into them and through them. I love squash, but it certainly is a pest magnet in our climate, and for me, the ultimate solution is to grow the C. moschata types of summer and winter squash. I don't know why the C. moschata summer squashes have not caught on widely in the southern states where SVBs can have multiple generations and destroy the plants for months. The Korean summer squash is about the best kept secret in southern gardening that I've ever seen....See Moregsevens
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