Hey all, just a quick question I was hoping someone could help with. I have some zucchini seedlings that I started in seed trays that I've been a bit recalcitrant on transplanting. They are strong little seedlings, about4-5 inches tall, but some of them are...not straight. Their stems are solid and strong, but they are bent over. I was ( Read more... )

I convinced my Mom to put a zucchini plant in the garden this year, and it's been... interesting.  It took a while to get going (the first half dozen zucchini got about 3-4 inches long and as thick around as my finger, then fell off and died), but it's produced three or four good-sized zucchini, and one that we picked because it was getting bigger ( Read more... )

I'm on the central coast of California (I don't know what growing zone that is, sorry ETA: Zone 10a?) and we are growing them in wine barrels from our local vineyards. They started dying a few days ago and we googled and found out that you harvest them when they die, so we dug up three plants and look we have potatoes!


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Hi, all! I've had this community on my friends list for years, but I've never had a garden until now. I just have a quick question about my "Midnight Lightning" zucchini plant. Is this variety supposed to have a trellis? If so, is it too late to put one up for it? Sorry if this is a dumb n00b question; I was under the impression that this was ( Read more... )

Well, my Zucchini and Squash plants that I germinated in the plastic bags are doing well. Well, the zucchini is, anyways. It's still kinda smallish, but the squash... it's leaves are about the size of my thumbnail. They've both been outside for about a month. Well, the question is, they are both flowering.

Should I just let the flower, or should I ( Read more... )

Updates on my little seedlings! I finally got things going, and everything is growing a lot faster than I had anticipated.

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I had to cover up my plants last night for what I think will be the last cold-spell of the year (it's not quite cold enough to be called a frost) but before I did I took a few pictures.

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 Hi guys, I'm new to gardening and new to this livejournal community.  But I do have some childhood experience with my Mother's gardening, but I was much too small at the time to really absorb all of the information that came from this experience.. so I don't count it.  I also tried to plant things a few years ago, but that didn't go so well as the ( Read more... )

I have been dehydrating my yellow crook neck squash and zucchini (what a difficult word to spell!) and making chips. So yummy. I blanch 1/4 slices (done with a mandolin and a protective glove ... don't forget the protective glove, those things are sharp) in boiling water briefly first, skip the ice water cool time thing and go directly to the ( Read more... )

One of my tomato plants has just about reached the top of the trellis. What do I do once it gets there?? *wibble ( Read more... )