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99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/4/2008 8:34:31 PM
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Consecrated2God
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Our cup runneth over. God has blessed us with prolific cucumbers this year. We've put up more pickles already then I think we'll actually eat in a year, and I'll have to go purchase more canning jars if I want to make more pickles. Tomatoes will be ready to can soon, too, and I've still got a whole laundry basket full of cucumbers.
Erick and I were thinking of ways to get rid of them, and I thought it would be fun to start a thread with some of the ideas we came up with, and let you all add your own to the list.
1. Take them to Wal-Mart and put boxes of cucumbers in people's vehicles.
2. Take them to a party and hand them out as door prizes. Have everyone put their names in a box and draw names for the winners until they are all gone.
3. Take them to the potluck at church instead of a casserole.
4. Give them to our neighbors as a thank-you gift for the sweet corn, potatoes, and green beans they gave us.
5. Pickle them and hand them out to the Trick-or-Treaters in October.
6. Give more pickles as Christmas gifts.
Got anymore ideas?
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/4/2008 8:58:00 PM
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I think number 4 is your best bet. Swap them for other things.
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/4/2008 9:05:11 PM
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7. Save em in a dark corner until Halloween. Instead of plain old boring bobbing for apples, give em variety...
8. Talk to your mayor about going for a worlds record biggest salad ever made- see if you can get the whole town to pitch in.
9. Jack o lantern... bah!!!! Jack o Smorgasboard YEAH!!!!
10. Pack em in a great big box and send them to some part of the country where they aint gettin all this good stuff!!!
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/4/2008 9:40:11 PM
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3 words - Local food banks!
I know around here during the summer the Community Harvest Food bank sometimes will take locally grown produce to give out to those in need.
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/4/2008 11:53:08 PM
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Take them to Salvation Army or other homeless shelter.
Put them in a box and put them on the curb with a sign that says "Free to Good Home."
If you have tomatoes too, put on Veggie Tales plays with Larry and Bob.
Take them to work and put them in the break room with "Free" sign.
Sneak around and put them on neighbors' porches or steps.
Put them into the offering plate at church instead of money.
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/5/2008 8:29:30 AM
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Consecrated2God
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22. Leave them as a tip the next time we go out to eat.
23. Make milkshakes with them and feed them to the kids for breakfast.
24. Feed them to the chickens
25. Freecycle them!
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/5/2008 8:58:02 PM
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Consecrated2God
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31. Use them as giant beads and make necklaces out of them.
32. Put them in the back of a truck for extra weight so it can get traction during the winter.
33. Put them on stakes in the ground around the permeter of the yard as a warning to other cucumbers.
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/5/2008 11:43:21 PM
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Make sandwiches with Benedictine spread - I'm not all that fond of cucumbers, but I think Benedictine spread is yummy!
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/6/2008 3:47:18 PM
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Consecrated2God
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42. Use them as barbells and build some muscle! They come in all sizes.
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/6/2008 3:54:17 PM
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42. Use them as barbells and build some muscle! They come in all sizes.
That's a great idea! Zucchini would work too.
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/6/2008 4:10:48 PM
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Once you get good with the cucumbers, then you get to move on to the zucchini. 
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/6/2008 4:18:44 PM
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I don't think bribing us is gong to work with cucumbers.
August 8 s national sneak a zucchini on your neighbors porch: courtesy of Elliemae
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RE: 99 Fun Ways to get rid of excess garden produce. - 8/6/2008 4:20:22 PM
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