This weekend past weekend one of my garden chores was to pull up the dying zucchini plants. It took all of 5 minutes, and then zucchini season was over. Just like that. I was actually hoping to get one more round of giant zucchinis so I could doorbell ditch them onto my neighbors porches, but no such luck. Oh well, I suppose 257+ pounds of zucchini wasn’t such a bad haul for one summer.
So what did I plant in the empty space? All those strawberries I pulled from the greenhouse gutters of course. I still have one gutter with strawberries in it, but as soon as this last round of cucumbers are ready to harvest, I’ll pull the vines and plant the remaining berry plants in their space.
So long zucchini, see you next summer, it’s been fun{sniff sniff}.
~Mavis
Jennifer O says
I recently ran across an article on how you can stake and prune zucchini plants so that they take up less space (http://www.mysquarefootgarden.net/pruning-zucchini/). You seem to have a lot of space, so it may not be a concern for you, but they certainly look more neat when staked, like little palm trees lol. They do say that the yields may be less though. I’m having a hard time seeing one of your giant zucchinis hanging off of the staked plant, but maybe some of your readers might be interested. I live in a zone where I can grow zucchini pretty much all year, so I’m going to try it through the Fall with the plants I have in my garden.