Look What I Harvested From the Garden This Morning!

Now, if you're saying to yourself, "Gee, I don't remember Toni saying she was planting patty pan squash," that would be because I did NOT plant them. I planted pumpkin. From a seed packet. I planted butternut squash in the same place--from a seed packet--and they never came up. I have 4 other squash plants over in that corner--all planted from pumpkin seed packets--and I'm really, really, REALLY hoping that thisis a baby pumpkin.

Last year I refused to even plant a zucchini as summer squash plants are just two hard to keep up with, and now I have 2 summer squashes--or more, depending on what the two small squashes decide to be. If they turn out to be patty pans too I will be ripping them out by their little roots shredding their little bodies into the compost bin--maybe minus the seeds.

And as long as we're on the subject of squash, remember when I got frustrated because the pumpkins weren't sprouting, and I mixed Hubbard squash & buttercup squash seeds together and just planted them? Well, something definitely came upWe've dubbed it "Audrey" because I've already caught it throttling a strawberry plant. I still don't know which one came up, but I read in a book that Hubbard squash can grow to be 40 pounds, so we're really REALLY hoping it's the buttercup.

So my newest theory on why people started buying food instead of growing it themselves isn't the convenience or the time involved--I think people get tired of getting their a**es kicked by squash.