Planting new beginnings

[mteson]

Spurred by our locavore lifestyle, H and I are taking the preliminary steps into growing some stuff. We've had an amaryllis bulb my mom gave us for Christmas 2 years ago that has somehow managed to stay alive all this time (although it has never once bloomed). Today a litle speck of green leaf peeked out from the stem, so we finally took the plunge

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[paperthinwalls]

you will have zucchini. oh, MY GOD WILL YOU HAVE ZUCCHINI. you don't know how those things grow!! muah haha haaaaaa haaaaahhhhhh.......... ;)

no but seriously, garrison keillor once said that july is the only month in which country people actually lock their car doors....so other country people won't sneak in and put squash on the front seat (because everyone has so damn much of it by then). heh.

[mteson]

I remember that bit from AVM. Still, don't underestimate how sucky we can be at keeping a potted plant alive, let alone giving it the right care to make fruit happen.

[paperthinwalls]

i basically ignored my yellow squash vine last summer and STILL ended up with 50,000 lbs of yellow squash!! it was planted in the ground, though, not in a pot. can you get this one in the ground?

p.s. - if you do keep it alive and it flowers, ask me for an awesome zucchini blossom recipe (stuffed with herbed goat cheese, battered, and served with warm walnut-honey pesto)........

[mteson]

Gimme the recipe anyways. I can get zucchini flowers at the FM in Hollywood really easily.

I don't have a ground option right now. If I wanted one it would take a small bit of landscaping that I'm not prepared to do right now.

How many seeds did you plant to get all that squash? We just started with a single plant as a tester.

[pshairyn]

i wanted to grow squash too, but they take up so much room! eat some squash blossoms for me!

i just started my first garden too. so far only sunchokes, quinoa and chard, but i'm going to add tomatoes, and some other stuff too. major criterion of being in my garden: easy to grow. i've already killed a sunchoke. whoops.
but, i figure the more i try to grow, the larger my margin of error. :)

[epicureanangel]

My MIL, who's into gardening, told me that it's way easier to start from seedlings than from seeds.. so that might make success an order of magnitude more likely.

Besides, did you know that a lot of places have money back guarantees if the plant dies? Even gurneys.com! I like that site, they've got good customer service, and a nice selection.

[mteson]

Interesting. There are some things I'd like to try growing that I'm not so confident about. Perhaps the seedling is the better way to go.

Still I dig starting from seeds, because it's fun and who knows, maybe it'll work. If it doesn't work I'll buy a plant.