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Too much zucchini? A neighbor wants it.
Every garden overshoots something. Post your extra harvest here and gardeners in your ZIP area can ask for it. Nobody sees your email address: replies arrive through our relay, and you choose whether to write back. Posts stay up for 14 days, then quietly retire.
Buried in one crop? Three things that work
Almost every garden overshoots something. One zucchini plant can keep producing for weeks, and six tomato plants will out-run a family of four. Here is what to do with the extra, in the order most people should try it.
1. Give it to a neighbor the same week
Fresh produce is worth the most in the first few days. That is what the board above is for: post what you have, someone in your ZIP area asks for it, and nobody sees your email address. It is free and posts retire after 14 days.
2. Preserve what you cannot eat in time
Some crops hold for months once they are canned, frozen, or dried. Others are not worth the jar. Start here: which vegetables are actually worth preserving and canning vs freezing vs drying. For using a glut this week, the recipe library is sorted by crop.
3. Donate the rest
Most food pantries take garden produce, and some list which days they can accept fresh items. Call ahead and pick the morning you drop off, since very few have cold storage for a big load.
The real fix is upstream. A glut usually means the plant count was set by the seed packet instead of by how much your household actually eats.
A free plan tells you exactly how much to plant so the surplus is intentional, with sow dates for your ZIP code and a bed map.
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