What to do when you find a giant zucchini growing the garden?

Q: Is there anything I can do with a giant zucchini? I always end up with at least one that “got away”.

Depending on how big, you can still make use of it. Summer squash, including zucchini, develop hard seeds fairly quickly, giving them an unpleasant mouth feel. If the seeds are hard, but the flesh isn’t bitter, you could use it for zucchini bread or any recipe that calls for shredded zucchini. Usually this works for slightly overgrown fruit.

If your zucchini is the size of a man’s torso, I recommend tossing it into the compost pile.

Q: Every year, we get a lot of tomatoes from our garden, which I will process into salsa, catsup, pasta sauce, and crushed tomatoes. I really like the flavor of the salsa and catsup, but the pasta sauce and crushed tomatoes are too tart for my taste. I kno