1. Firstly, if you don't prepare a vegie patch now, you will have no chance of eating just-picked, firm zucchini smaller than your little finger, the perfect size to eat zucchini. Sauté them whole or slice them and slide them onto a toothpick to bake in a hot oven for about 10 minutes, possibly with mini tomatoes in between each slice, pricked so they don't explode, with a few leaves of basil.
Almost every vegie gardener in Canberra will try to give away zucchinis by January, but they probably won't offer you the tiny ones, often with the blossom still attached. Those will go straight into the pan and you will be given quite nice medium-size zucchini, partly because the tiny ones will have been eaten but also because they shrivel in a day or two - they need to be munched the same day. The blossoms can be stuffed and fried.
