There’s a joke among gardeners who grow zucchini. During good years, we tease about leaving a few baseball bat-sized zucchini on the neighbor’s stoop and doing the old ding-dong-dash just to get rid ...

Q: My wife planted three zucchini seeds in an Aerogarden hydroponic unit back in February, nurtured them until transplanting them in the garden. At that time we planted approximately ten more seeds.

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 ...