It started off very exciting. Blearily washing dishes on the Tuesday after Labor Day I glanced up from the sink and saw two very exciting yellow flowers on my zucchini plant. Hello ladies!
And just three days later, while doing my second watering of the day (yes, that’s happening now) I saw those flowers had started turning into zucchini!
That happened fast. Here’s a close up:
Pretty awesome, right? Well…yes. But take a step back, and you’ll see that this damn zucchini plant is starting to take over the entire farm!
There’s a Japanese eggplant hiding under the enormous leaves to the right (planted in the same EarthBox), and to the left, there’s a little determinate tomato plant struggling to find some sun. I spaced out the Earthboxes a bit in the hopes that the little tomato will catch a break. But this zucchini plant is aggressive.
Watch out Jonah!
Deborah, I am so excited to see your blog! It’s going into my RSS reader right now.
And I’m jealous of how far along your garden is… here in sub-arctic Ithaca, it’s barely warm enough to put seedlings in the ground. I have a 20×25-foot plot in a community garden, and fully half of it still isn’t planted.
Can’t wait to read more about your gardening adventures! (And Jonah, who by the way, is absolutely adorable.)
So good to hear from you Gwen!! Yeah, I have to say, when I contemplate moving back to the east coast I always get really stuck on the gardening part. Here winter equals cool weather crop season–so lettuce and broccoli and kale. You can really grow vegetables outside all year round. LA is the greatest sometimes.
Maybe you can send me a picture of your plot and I can put it on the blog! (only 40 people will read it, but I like the idea of sharing!)
Don’t forget to stuff and fry those blossoms – yum!
Hahaha! The Jonah line made me legit guffaw.
I’m jealous of your zucchini! All my zucchini and yellow squash got end-blossom-rot on every single little squash, I was so bummed! My friend had been giving me these huge squash and I so wanted to grow my own. And I think maybe the lack of sun might be good for your cauliflower. My cauliflower’s head grew all separated and small. I read today that I should “blanch” it – tie the leaves over the head when it’s small so the sun doesn’t get in but the air circulates.
i see that zucchini leaf reaching out stealthily for your little guy… just planted a ton of lettuce in our backyard box and my lil’ son loves petting them. hopefully they won’t turn against him when they get bigger.
Hi there! I’ve been growing zucchini as well and have had some issues with some sort of white powdery stuff growing all over the leaves when the seedlings were just starting out. However, I read somewhere that diluted chamomile tea works as a great fungicide as well as a natural fertilizer. I’ve therefore been using a combination of green tea, nettle tea, and chamomile tea as a foliage spray for everything from my zucchini to carrots. It really, really works and my zucchini plants both started producing baby zucchini as well. I’m so excited! I thought they wouldn’t survive, but now they are thriving. Congratulations on your zucchini! : ) I can’t wait for the orange blossoms to show up on mine, but for some reason, the baby zucchini are there already…