Franco Martorana claims to grow the longest zucchinis in Burnaby – and it’s hard to imagine he’s wrong.
The five-foot-plus long vegetables serve as the centrepiece to his lush garden brimming on each side of his driveway in North Burnaby.
The zucchinis and Martorana both hail from Sicily, but have long made their home in the Lower Mainland.
So how do they get so big?
“I’ve got a trick,” he explains.
He manually pollinates the flowers to ensure a good harvest.
“You have to to kiss them,” he says.
The end result is a bounty of delicious zucchinis that can be served in soup, fried or boiled and topped with olive oil and black pepper – “Ahh, that's the best,” he says.
Martorana also claims the vegetables have medicinal properties.
“It’s good to clean the system.”
