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Overplanting: Better Safe than Sorry?

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Hello!  I'm a brand-new wannabe gardener. I've bought Mel's Sq. Foot 
book and I'm really excited about getting started on the community 
garden plot I've rented for the season.  His method seems really great 
-- easy to use and efficient.  But...

I would have problems putting my faith in, for example, planting one 
single zucchini bush seed.  I mean, what if the seed that I plant is 
one of the ones that would never sprout?  And if it did sprout, what 
if in the first couple of weeks of life, it got eaten overnight by a 
rabbit or cat or something?  

Then I'd have to start from scratch, with 2 or 3 weeks growing time 
totally wasted, and in Ottawa's fairly short summer, I don't see how 
planting a new zucchini bush at that time would work.  

So.  *Please*, experienced gardeners on this list, tell me if you 
actually do only put one seed per hole.  I mean, for plants like 
carrots or onions, it's no big deal if a few of the seeds never 
sprout, because there are so many others that will grow to maturity.  
But for those bigger plants.... peppers, broccoli, and the 9-square 
foot plants especially.... what do you do?

Thanks!

--Lisa in Ottawa
broccolisa@hotmail.com

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