zucchini

so as part of wanting some fast food out of the garden zucchini was planted

and it was put in seed trays in side 3 weeks before the last expected frost date,
I wanted to pick 2 weeks before, but as these plants were for my mom I went along,
they got transplanted 2 times as not to mess with the vigor or the plants, squash can be very messed up by messing with it's growth at any time,
and if it had been planted in seed trays 2 weeks before going out in the garden it would not have been transplanted an extra time,

the real exciting news is that it is already producing !

if you have a zucchini plant you have to harvest from it often or it will stop making new squashes on it,
if you do stop harvesting the plant will put all of it's energy into the squash it already has and try to produce seeds, and it is handy to do this to a few of them usually near the end of the year so that you have seeds to replant, but you should know that you will not be getting any more food from it when you do.

to harvest cut with a sharp knife in the middle of the stem, and careful of the leaves as they are easy to cut when harvesting

and here is how you know that more are on the way

now time to go plant some peanuts