<story><title>Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/14/iowa-teen-farmer-donate-garden/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ourmandave</author><text>A few of my co-workers have gardens and around mid-season they&amp;#x27;ll bring in a bags and bags of vegetables they couldn&amp;#x27;t give away to friends and family.&lt;p&gt;And it always seems to be squash and zucchini.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>Home vegetable gardeners are hilarious (my own family included)&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re like &amp;quot;Hey I&amp;#x27;m going to grow some vegetables this year&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Then on a late summer day they&amp;#x27;re like: &amp;quot;So uhh yeah, I have a problem. Do you happen to need 47 pounds of squash?&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/14/iowa-teen-farmer-donate-garden/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ourmandave</author><text>A few of my co-workers have gardens and around mid-season they&amp;#x27;ll bring in a bags and bags of vegetables they couldn&amp;#x27;t give away to friends and family.&lt;p&gt;And it always seems to be squash and zucchini.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jihadjihad</author><text>I grew one zucchini plant this year, it took up about 15 sqft and produced squash for weeks. I like zucchini but when you get a plant or two that is just prolific, there&amp;#x27;s just only so many ways to cook it and only so much of it you can eat.&lt;p&gt;My grandparents grew 30 tomato plants and had so many that even after canning over 100 quarts of tomato sauce they still couldn&amp;#x27;t keep up with all the tomatoes on the vines.</text></comment>