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Yippee for summer! My Arizona garden keeps me in fresh veggies all year, but summer brings a glutton of squash, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes. I pickle peppers and cucumbers several times over the summer,make sauces and can the tomatoes as well, but I can never find enough things to do with zucchini . Sometimes I can't even give it away! My husband is not a zucchini fan at all, or any other vegetable for that matter. He often doesn't even know when I sneak in veggies under his nose. It's much like issues moms of toddlers have, except mine will go head for the drive thru if dinner bombs. He will never turn down chocolate. Which brings me back around to zucchini! I've tried countless recipes for zucchini bread some with chocolate. Most are quite good for me and the kids, but my hubby turns his nose up at the little green specks and refuses to even try it. I have come up with a great fudgy cake recipe, a mish mash of "rejects" that turns out to be moist, choc...

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Starting house plants from cuttings is much easier than you may think. Many plants will take up root anywhere they can. Members of the Pothos family ( Wikki Info ) are easy to start, very tolerant of poor care and live well in limited light. I have one that was given to me as part of a gift from my office when my son was born 18 years ago, I have drug it back and forth across the county a few times, forgotten to water for  long periods, it's been mangled by cats, dogs and kids and yet it is still around. Over the years I have rooted many cuttings for myself and for friends. We have three pots in our house that are all from the same plant. I've started a few cuttings for a friend recently with only a few simple steps. Find the nodes on the vine. They are small, dark raised bumps, usually just below a leaf. You can cut off as long of a piece as you'd like, but three or four leaves from the end of the vine works well. Snip the vine above the leave that is after the no...

Usually I toss the scraps from my veggies into the compost bin. What about using them to grow new veggies to eat from the roots, cuttings and seeds? I was looking for something else and came across a very good article  on exactly how to and what yummy things can become new plants. We have tried many of these with some mixed success. Our most recent; the avocado pit. We got farther than we ever did before. I had a tiny tree, 6 to 8 leaves and about a foot tall. I moved it from my air conditioned kitchen to my very hot, but shaded back porch. By the time I did a walk through the garden pulling some weeds, it looked very sad and wilted. Twenty minutes was all it took to make all of the leaves fall off. I snipped the top off and waiting to see what happens. Staring a new one on the sill today. Check out this article 7 Fresh Veggies You Can Grow From Kitchen Scraps   for more ideas on what to try!