You need to find the MOST prolific zuke plant...then next season make him eat them all!!! MWAHAHAHAHA

Seriously, he must really want those!? I asked my hubby what he was getting me for my birthday...he says 'A whole bunch of s***' I literally got 2 truckloads of compost. LOL That's about the most gardening type things he's EVER done. lol

He's a newer husband. Well actually my 3rd husband (1 annullment, widowed 4 years ago), and while we've both been married before were also both used to running things. I just hate the idea of spending next summer trying to pass off spare veggies to people because he wanted zukezilla. Then again he's 6'9 and 200 LBs, so the man can pack away a meal. Oh well at least I'll have another planter the year after for tomatoes.

I have two zukes growing in my garden. I alloted 4 sq ft for one, but let two grow. They now take 11 sq ft in the garden AND trail over the side covering at LEAST 4 sq ft more. But I love zucchini and eat a ton of it. Still, if it weren't for blossom end rot, I'd have given a ton away...you'll want to plant only one!

I know just 1 plant,my aunt grew tons of the stuff in the 80's I was sick of it then. the zuke planter is going to be away from the stuff, maybe the shade'll kill off more grass.

And more dead grass means more room for boxes! (Just trying to think positive here.) :-)

I allow a 4x4ft = 16sqft area but I squeeze 2 plants in. A 3x3 should work for a "newer" untrained hubby!!

I hate veggies, it's just they are easy to grow. Esp. squash & zuke.

I'm another person who had too many of them in the past and doesn't like them enough to devote space to them. (My mother loves the zucchinis and yellow crooknecks.) However, there is a bit of an upside to the hubby buying the 3x3 planter, since you can grow the Zuke' and plant spring crops like leaf lettuce and spinach around the edges. As the small, innocent looking, zucchini grows to take over the world, you will have a good harvest of spring leafy-greens for a month or so. I would put the lettuces in the "outer ring" around the edges of the planter, as they seem to last longer than the spinach (I had to pull mine a while ago) but the shade from the zuch' leaves may prolong your lettuce harvest. I expected to have to pull my lettuce along with my spinach by now, but thanks to the shade from my ever expanding bean plants, I am still getting a harvest of yummy leaf lettuce.

Nope not bought, he went and picked up some 8x2x8's and got out the drill. He's also done custom playhouses for the preschool, and furnature for the kiddies.

"He's also done custom playhouses for the preschool, and furnature for the kiddies."
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Ummm......handy with a drill? Able to make custom playhouses and furniture and stuff? Plant the man a couple of zucchinis!!! :~D

I am, and his watermelons he asked for. Yes I got the handy hubby.

"he's 6'9 and 200 LBs, so the man can pack away a meal."

Wow, that sounds extremely skinny to me, must be the zucchini diet :)

lol Can't be the zukes... he wants them for fried zukes! It may be all the extra projects I suggest.... ( ~.^ )