OMG, guys — look at what I grew in my garden!!!!
That’s a zucchini!!!! Actually it is supposed to be a summer squash, at least that was the name on the seed packet, but who really cares?!?!?? I GREW that from a SEED!!!
And maybe that doesn’t sound like too much, but I have been trying to grow zucchini and summer squash for years. When the seeds actually do sprout, the plants grow like crazy, produce a ton a pretty yellow flowers, but never any fruit. I get so excited to see the flowers and then the plants just die off. And I have no idea why.
Now this zucchini/summer squash is so damn exciting because it wasn’t even there two days ago! I was out in the garden on Sunday weeding and replanting some arugula and spinach seeds. I checked my two large summer squash plants and my three cucumber plants (that I also grew from seeds!!) and all 5 plants had a bunch yellow flowers but no fruit. Actually don’t tell anyone, but I had a tiny, tiny cucumber starting last week and I think the high heat and humidity baked it to a crisp…
So I go out to the garden after work this evening — it was starting to sound like thunderstorms were in the area so I wasn’t even going to go into the garden enclosure, but I am SO glad that I did! Where did that zucchini/summer squash even come from??? I am so excited and hope that our neighborhood wildlife doesn’t decide to have it as a snack before it’s ready to be picked…
And here’s some other cool stuff that’s bloomed in my garden the past two days:
My gerbera daisy plant is actually blooming again!! That is another thing that never happens for me, I usually kill those plants within weeks!
And I am loving the two hibiscus plants I bought this year! They keep flowering (although when my friends were here, there were no flowers on anything, I looked like a bad gardener)! I wish that I had bought more of them! I guess there’s always next year.
I am just so pleased with the garden this year! And I have gotten so many more tomatoes this week — they just need to ripen!! I just love summer.
Notes from a Self Quarantine 