Growing zucchini with kids is a lot of fun. The plants grow HUGE and kids can help pollinate the flowers to help you have a successful harvest! I usually cut the zucchini off the plant and let the kids “pick” them up as they are hard to remove without tools. The only bummer is that they are not great to eat raw out in the garden (in our opinion)!
Although I would love to have room in a freezer for zucchini breads and muffins, I just don’t have the space. SO, I grate, blanch, cool, and freeze my zucchini in 1 and 2 cup freezer bags full. Then, I am able to bake with it all year round!
We just did a post on our favorite zucchini bread recipe! I'm thinking that we may need to start growing our own zucchini plants now! 😉 http://www.jugglingwithkids.com/2012/06/best-zucchini-bread.html
To keep those very pesky bugs off our zucchini plants we surround them with marigold flowers. Something about them deter those (we call them love bugs) from killing our plants. They will eventually show up but not until the end of the summer when things start to wind down anyway, and even then they don't infest and take out the plant. Hope this helps!
Just found your blog via pinterest, I'm growing zucchini for the first time this summer, and this was some helpful information! Thanks 🙂
Diatomaceous Earth may help with the beetle infestation. But it coukd kill beneficial also. I plant marigolds garlic and onions. And use neem oul and garlic spray. So far so good