I love sage, too, but down here it has to be treated as an annual because the summer heat and fungi hammer it.

I live on Blackberry Lane, so-named because of the wild ones that grow around here. I found one two-inch plant with almost no root growing in some rock-hard clay down at the creek 10 years ago, and so I dug it up and transplanted it into one of my berry patches. It went crazy - I have to use the lawn mower to keep it in check.

Try hand-pollinating the zucchini. I snap off the male flowers and put the pollin directly on the females early in the AM on the first day the female flowers open.