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August 2, 2012 by Tien Chiu

(Re)introducing Audrey II

Perhaps you’ve forgotten all about the rampaging zucchini plant, last seen a few weeks ago.

Or perhaps not.

In any event, I thought it was time I provided an update.  The plant, which I have affectionately (?) named Audrey II (devotees of Little Shop of Horrors will understand why), is continuing to rampage.  It is also producing lots of “buds”, i.e. zucchini – about 2-3 of them PER DAY.  If you consider that Mike and I eat on average two or three zucchini PER WEEK, you can understand the trepidation with which I view this flood of zucchini.  It may well be that the planet is doomed!

At any rate, Audrey II is huge now.  How huge?  So large that it takes FIVE (count ’em, five) to capture its entire menace.  So if you’ve always wondered what a single unfettered zucchini can do, here you go:

Audrey II the zucchini, photo 1
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 1
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 2
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 2
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 3
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 3
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 4
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 4
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 5
Audrey II the zucchini, photo 5

At least Audrey-the-zucchini is not yet saying “FEEEEEEED ME!”   (But I wonder what happened to the neighbors’ kids…)

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  1. terri says

    August 2, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    eat zucchini blossoms to keep audrey ii’s production in check? 🙂 some recipe ideas here: http://www.thekitchn.com/five-ways-to-eat-squash-blosso-87564

  2. Julia says

    August 2, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    OK, I have a name for you: Zucchini “Costata Romanesco”. This is a bush-type zucchini (read: will stay where you put it and won’t go questing about like an eager snake) and it is optimized for flavor rather than productivity (read: 2 flavorful zucchini per week rather than an avalanche). Best of all, it doesn’t become seedy or pithy until it gets really large (read: if you miss one and find it a couple of weeks later, it’s still edible). I’ve really enjoyed growing this variety for the past couple of years and although I love reading about Audrey’s mission of conquest, you might enjoy having some garden space for other things next year 🙂

  3. Karen says

    August 3, 2012 at 5:43 am

    I’ve got a cucumber plant that I’ve named Audrey. *snicker* They do like to rampage when they are healthy, don’t they?

  4. Nancy Lea says

    August 4, 2012 at 3:37 am

    hope you like zucchini. I’ve got some melon plants that look like they might try competing, but, so far, no melons.

  5. DMartin says

    August 4, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    Blossoms are edible, too! Or at least so I’ve heard…. Bon Appetit has a recipe for frying them? That way you could minimize the zuchini output and get two products from one plant!

  6. Sharon says

    August 5, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    Eat them when they are still tiny, you can eat more of them that way, and they taste best too.

  7. bibiotecaria says

    August 9, 2012 at 10:20 am

    Have you considered pickling them?

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