attack of the mutant vegetables...

Little did I know back in September when I blogged about our new "super sized" garden that we would be marvelling at "super sized" vegetables come summer. We have had a bumper crop of tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, squash, zucchinis, corn, spinach and even a few potatoes.

We love to pick fresh zucchinis, split into 1/4's, splash a bit of caramelised balsamic on them and then put them on the barbecue . Heaven. So we have picked, and eaten a few over the past months and all quite normal.

Then one day Gary yells out, come look at my big zucchini (I appreciate that in a house full of boys this is a snigger worthy comment so feel free to have a little chuckle before continuing LOL). I did get up and go look and this is what I saw...

Oh, OK Gaz, that is a big one (yes more snickering!) Now he had our attention and the family all gathered. 

 I'll spare you some of the other, um, less flattering photos that the boys insisted on posing for!

Now we got serious and dragged out the tape measure...we needed cold hard stats.

Then we thought we had better give a comparison to a "normal" zucchini,

Now you are all really impressed aren't you? And just incase you think that it was a fluke...

We also had some mutant squash (normal size on the left, super size on the right).

I'm pretty sure that the mutant zucchini will be woody (yes, yes, snigger, snigger) and tasteless but they sure do make a great gardening story.

Comments

[Libby]

Now that makes my big zucchini (that I just blogged about today) look like a baby. We've had some big ones over the years but I think yours would be the record winner :-). The thing that amazes me is that everything will be picked or just about the right size and yet just a day or later you'll find a wopper - not sure if they hide or grow massive overnight!
I can imagine the fun your boys had with this :-).

Libby

[Lee Currie]

Oh my, Jody! I just read your story to my husband who found it equally funny. The funniest part was knowing that I would have probably posted the photos your chose not to share :) Great harvest!

[cate]

maybe I won't start a veggie patch this year if sniggery photos will be needed by the kids ~lol~ you're right, I bet it tastes horrible, but I like the sounds of balsamic and bbq'd zucchini, I'll add it to my list!