Love these little round zucchinis.
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Produce at Last
Well into my fourth month of grown-from-seed veggie gardening, I am starting to enjoy some nice results.
Since I don't have any areas here where I can plant anything in the ground, growing water loving plants in the dessert can be a challenge.
On these 95°F and up days, the tomatoes especially need to be checked for water every hour until shade falls on them. This is exacerbated by the fact that many of my plants are in pots that are too small and/or plastic. This is because I need to have everything in planters small enough for me to easily lift as I am carrying many of them back and forth from sun to shade.
Pictured are half of a green spaghetti squash, a Bush Baby Zucchini, pretty speckled leaves from red okra, three kinds of cabbage, mint, melon greens, jute, and a few beans and peas. I forgot to pick the edible chrysanthemum leaves, which are cut and come again, so the more I use the more I get.
Green Butternut Squash
My love/hate relationship with butternut squash lands more towards love every day.
This green squash is about 4" long and supported by a tomato cage. Started indoors in one of my AeroGarden planters and growing in a pot on my patio, it is fast becoming the poster child for the name I gave this blog years ago: Ann's Air Gardens.
Finally ready to pollenate.
Growing this from seeds saved from a supermarket squash was an experiment.