Today at work, a couple guys a I were talking about this and that. The one guy "Steve", got talking about a planting a zucchini now for this year's fair. A couple years ago got first place in the biggest zucchini competition. As he described it with his hands, it was apparently about 3 feet long, and about 10-12" in diameter at the big end.

Anyway, I got thinking and I want to try to grow a 4-6 foot zucchini. Here's my thoughts... Take a 6' piece of 4" PVC pipe and cut it in half. When a zucchini starts growing, put it in the pipe and wrap rope or something around the pipe halves to keep them from splitting about. Here's the question... Will the pipe force the zucchini to grow long and skinny, or will the pressure of growing against the pipe cause the zucchini to crush it self? Do you think this will produce a long zucchini, or am I nuts? I think I'm gonna try it anyway, but would like to see some opinions also.

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Rob Smith, NY
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