Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day
About Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day
When is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day? This holiday is celebrated on August 8
Your wife has ordered you to get rid of the dozens of zucchinis that are covering the kitchen table and all of the counters. The solution arrives to you on Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day. This August 8 holiday saves the day. It might be a nasty thing to do to your neighbor. But hey, what are you going to do with an endless supply of zucchini fruit?
Experienced gardeners know that Zucchini is one of the most prolific plants in all of the gardening world. A single plant produces a seemingly endless supply of fruit. A small row of zucchini plants has the potential to end world hunger.
By the time August arrives, gardeners are reaping far more zucchini than they can possibly use. They use it daily in an untold number of recipes, from soups and stews to breads and dips. Still, the fruit matures on the vine faster than anyone can even pick it. Zucchini growers become desperate, as they try to give zucchini away to family, friends, and everyone they encounter. By August, even non-gardeners have had enough. Everyone avoids you, with your arms laden with giveaway fruit.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s time to sneak over, under the cover of darkness, to your neighbor’s porch, and unload some zucchini. Today is that day. This may solve your problem for today. But, what will you do with all those zucchini that you harvest tomorrow!?!
Zucchini Trivia
How much do you really know about one of the most prolific vegetable plant on the planet? Learn more….
- In the 1920s, Italian immigrants brought zucchini to America. Home vegetable gardens have not been the same since.
- Zucchini is good for you. It is low-fat, low in calories, and low in carbs. Also, it is high in important healthy minerals and nutrients.
- Zucchini has more potassium than a banana.
- Home gardener Henry D’Angela from Ontario, Canada grew the world’s longest zucchini . It was a whopping 8 feet 4.79 inches.
- Ron Scholtz, from Williamstown, VT. holds the world record for weight. In 2020, he grew a 115-pound giant zucchini.
- While no one has actually done an official count, there are over one hundred zucchini recipes. While you grow them in your vegetable garden, and you find it in the vegetable areas of grocery stores, it is indeed a fruit.
- The flower of the plant is edible.
- A zucchini’s high water content aids in hydration.
- It has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
- You can make a zucchini horn and play a song on it.
How to Celebrate Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day
The best time to sneak some zucchini onto your neighbor’s porch is in the early morning when it is still dark outside, and most people are asleep. However, nowadays more and more homeowners have a front door camera like the Ring Camera. Thus, it is getting harder and harder to sneak around with your excess zucchini without getting caught. So, if you want to remain anonymous, we suggest you wear a mask. Otherwise, just have fun with this day delivering zucchini to all of your neighbors.
Here are some ideas on how to have fun with this day:
- As the title of this holiday suggests, stealthily deposit some of your fresh garden zucchini on your neighbor’s porch or front step.
- Get up early so your neighbors don’t see you left it on their porch.
- Make some zucchini bread and leave it on their porch.
- Forget the sneakiness. Give some away to all of your neighbors.
- Keep a couple of zucchinis and use it in a few recipes.
- When it comes to eating them, bigger is not better. Pick Zucchini when they are small. Small fruit tastes better.
- They are squash and are related to pumpkins. Asa matter of fact the two can cross, resulting in interesting crossbreeds.
- Eat zucchini on a regular basis. Scientists tell us it slows down the process of graying hair.
- Have you ever heard of someone who is allergic to zucchini? No one in the whole world is allergic to it!
- It can be used as a natural skin moisturizer.
Thought for Today
Whenever I try to eat healthier, a candy bar looks at me and snickers.
History and Origin of Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day
Our research did not find the creator or the origin of this day. However, as a gardener, this author readily understands why someone proclaimed a day in August to creatively distribute the bountiful Zucchini harvest.
This Day in History
Here are some things that happened on this day:
- The Daughters of the American Revolution organization is created. (1890)
The song Iitsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini hits #1. (1960)
- Donny Most, “Ralph Malph” on TV series “Happy Days, was born on this day in 1953.
- See more historical events.
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