Few vegetables reward gardeners as much as zucchini. Just plant in a sunny spot, water, and wait. Soon you’ll have more ...

Our thirdborn son arrived for dinner on a recent evening to find me taking a fourth loaf of orange chocolate chip zucchini bread from the oven. “I see you’ve been baking like an old lady, Ma,” he said ...

The legend goes that people used to leave zucchini on their neighbors’ porches in the late summer to get rid of the prolific vegetable. It’s easy to grow and gets a bad reputation among farmers and ...

Every year, there’s a zucchini problem, and it goes something like this: Too many zucchini, not enough ideas. Oh, sure, you can avoid them. That is, if you’re not a gardener who planted them, or a ...

A few summers ago, I joked about growing a $200 zucchini in a column. We were living in Snowmass at the time, and we built a vegetable garden next to our condo. It was toilsome and expensive to create ...