25 Delicious Ways To Use Up What’s in Your Garden

Zucchini Ribbon Pasta

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Zucchini Ribbon Pasta

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Marshall Troy, 2012,Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved.

For those of us in the majority of the country, the growing season is coming to a close. We might be fresh out of ideas on how to use up the crops that are lingering in our gardens, but we’re certainly not going to let the last few tomatoes of the season go to waste (even if they are still green!). Here are 25 delicious ways to use up that last of your seasonal bounty before it disappears until next year.

Zucchini

Zucchini Ribbon Pasta (pictured above)

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Matt Armendariz, 2014, Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved

Tomatoes

Gazpacho (pictured above)

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Kai_Wong, Kai_Wong

Okra

Food Network Kitchen's Cucumber Tuna Salad Sandwich For Bunless/Breadless Sandwiches As seen on Food Network

Food Network Kitchen's Cucumber Tuna Salad Sandwich For Bunless/Breadless Sandwiches As seen on Food Network

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Stephen Johnson, 2014, Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved

Cucumbers

Grapes

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