Planting squash again is sort of like planning on and wanting another kid after having a really terrible delivery filled with pain with the prior child. Because I know that I hate squash at the end of every single spring season and my husband and kids beg me not to bring another zucchini into the house. It’s so painful to keep racking my brain deciding what to do with the 2 foot long zucchini that I had overlooked and I just can’t bring myself to throw another one into the compost pile. Oh, and try giving anymore to the neighbors or your friends and they just look at you with a pained look on their face that says, umm, I really want to say no because the others that you gave me are rotting in my fridge, but you look so excited about zucchini because you grew it yourself that I just might say yes.
So I planted zucchini today and yellow crook neck, yellow scallop and lemon squash.
Has anyone else forgotten the pain from last year?
I didn’t get pained enough. I think I planted them too late so I didn’t harvest too many. I did go a little overboard this year though. I have 6 summer squash plants going right now and one is just about to start flowering. I’m so excited!
I would have loved to try the yellow scallop squash but never got around to getting seeds.
Please let us know what you think of the lemon squash. I’ve heard great things about them.
I hope I’m in agony (first large garden in AZ) my summer squash is starting to flower as well, hope I get bees to help with pollination.
I guess I am the cause of your pain, because I gave you the squash seed.
Look at it this way..they look GREAT in your garden, and you make all the bees in the entire neighborhood happy. I planted a whole plot 6×30 full of them so I guess I will put a basket a day in my front yard that says..Free squash..Please take some!! My dogs love to play with them, and I use them to throw at the pidgeons. Seriously, they taste great and I don’t like to waste anything I grow..so maybe I can trick my family into taking them..Good luck Staci, and I hope they grow and are extremely bountiful !!!
YUMMMMM, fried zuccini, eggplant parmesan, zuccini casserole, zuccini salad,
fried eggplant, squash corn salsa, you guys are making me hungry talking about squash, Bee’s come out come out wherever you are.
Throwing them at the pigeons…now that’s a new idea that I haven’t thought of before. The kids would love to get in on that one.
Cailynn, 4 year old girl, insists on watering the squash seeds, under my supervision of course, but it’s so cute.
My Garden is booming!!! I just planted cantaloupe, yellow and green squash, basil and some chives. Take a look at the new pictures.
Shaun,
It looks like your garden is doing great! Have you gotten any peas yet? I have never planted peas so I was just wondering what kind of yield they produce here. Thanks for letting us in on the pictures. 🙂
My sugar snap peas did great until they the temp goes in the 80 and they got cooked. Yeild was good but i think i need to start the plants earlier this year so they have time to really produce. I would say to get a good yield start them in Oct. and the should put out peas until mid March. I am just guessing on the but from the temps they thrive in the should work well.
I agree, Shaun, my peas did great too, but the December starts did best of all. I am going to start them even earlier next year, for sure. The December ones were very productive. My 3 year old loved to go out and pick them, and eat them fresh.
Staci, my 3 y/o also insisted on a zucini garden! She desperately wanted it mainly because of the Veggie Tales on the package! The leafs are getting huge already, although they have not started to run yet. I’ll post some pics soon.