That’s One Really Long Zucchini!

By Alex in Home & Garden on Sep 5, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Left to their own devices, zucchinis tend to grow and grow and grow … Sometimes, even veteran gardeners like Apollonia Castitlione of Queens, New York, get shocked at how big they can grow:

Castitlione, 48, said she noticed the giant fruit was growing longer than usual last month when it suddenly shot up a couple of inches in as many days.

She then went on vacation to Boston for the weekend and returned to find it had shot up another 1.5 inches.

At last count, the zucchini was just over 6 feet – nearly 2 feet shy of the world-record 7-foot, 10-inch zucchini grown in India three years ago.

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  1. fulanoche
    Sep 5th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    She won’t be playing hide the zucchini with that!
    Then again, maybe for a long time.

  2. ted
    Sep 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    That’s what she said…

  3. Dianne
    Sep 5th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    Zucchini bread, fried zucchini, zucchini alfredo, zucchini with rice, zucchini and taters, baked zuchini, on and on and on.

  4. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    Sep 6th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    Wow… and I thought the ones we used to grow were big. They only got about two feet long, though (and then my father would carve them for Halloween).

  5. Thomas
    Sep 7th, 2008 at 2:26 am

    Too much zucchini. Too much.


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