Our zucchinis were not the bees knees last year.
I planted the yellow kind, and while the actual plants grew ginormous and thrived, the fruit would get to a certain size and then start to die off. I did still get some, but I had to pick them at a size just a bit bigger than a man's finger.
However if failure stopped me from growing things I'd have taken up lawn bowls quite some time ago, and so forth go I ahead with them once more.
I'm pretty sure that last part doesn't quite make sense, but I do think it sounds rather entertaining.
So just as the title suggests, I got a bit adventurous and sowed the seeds in a hanging basket. I then got so excited about this idea that I now have three more hanging baskets up, all filled with seedlings.
I think it will be harder for the slugs to get to them.
These little zukes are destined for one of the back garden beds when they get a bit bigger, I have a really large one where they will have plenty of space to spread out. It's actually much too big, I can't even begin to reach the back of it, and as it backs up to our back fence and side fences, I can't go round it.
No large town planner would I make.
Hopefully I'll make a small zucchini gardener instead.
11 comments:
They look very happy and healthy seedlings Ali - all will be fine.
Like your turn of phrase - no large town planner would I make. I beg to differ from what I've seen of your garden layout.
I have all my zucchini crossed for you, Ali!
I love your honesty Ali...I couldn't tell you how many times I've also tried to grow a crop or two and they've shrivelled up overnight...as they say, if at first you don't succeed, try and try and try again....So far so good hey! They do look very healthy. :)
I hope that these ones will do better that last years.
Great picture - that one with seed shell still attached to the leaf.
They look ok and a promise of healthy plants, a good start in life. Such a great idea germinating them in a hanging basket!
I hope for your sake that all those zucchini plants do NOT go on to produce a bumper crop - just imagine how many fruits you could end up with! You can get too much of a good thing, you know. But I like the idea of using the hanging basket as a slug-deterrent seed-bed.
I think you might be on to something there. Can't see why it wouldn't work well. Good luck with them.
The way I garden luck is a very important element.
That is a good idea. I wonder what other veggies you could grow completely from a hanging basket without having to transplant? Strawberries I've seen. I think the zucchini plants would be too big. I have some planter boxes that I'm thinking of hanging on the fence in my herb patch. I'm just wondering whether there are some veggies I could grow in them. Hmmm. You've given me some thinking to do.
Hi Ali, great idea for keeping your zuke seedlings safe from sluggery. A friend of mine also starts off her cukes in hanging baskets. And she grows her strawberries in them as well.
Ahh, tarragon. I just chuck it into different parts of the garden area and if it takes, it takes. If not, then not.
Ali & Veggiegobbler: there are lots of varieties of tomato that do well in hanging baskets - e.g. Tumbling Tom, which comes in at least two colours (red & yellow). A combination of those 2 in a basket would look really decorative as well as being a good food source.
Mark I think tomatoes in hanging baskets is a fabulous idea, and I am going to give it a good try this summer.
Daffodil, your little piggy is the cutest thing I have ever seen... and cucumbers in a hanging basket is also a marvellous idea, I will try that too.
Move aside hanging gardens of Babylon!
Veggiegobbler, I found some wrought iron shelves during hard rubbish that I am planning to put up in the garden and sit something on them... so I will be waiting to hear your fabulous ideas about what to put in there :)
Missy I think luck is my only element! I am pretty sure I usually do things the wrong way around :) And I've seen your garden, it's a bit fabulous.
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