Re: Transplanting zucchini
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- Subject: Re: Transplanting zucchini
- From: g*@juno.com
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 07:25:51 -0500
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Hello,
The paper forms a bottomless container.
The soil will fall out so you need a tray..I recycle the meat trays from
the store.
I don't have a problem growing zucchini from seed here but I do have one
with any winter squash with a date to harvest of over 100 days. The
peat pots are bad I tried those before too with almost exactly the same
results as you. With paper pots once the roots grow into the soil the
root ball pretty much holds the soil in the cylinder and when you go to
plant the pot is just starting to decompose. What you have is a nice
root ball with some paper that will degrade in the soil. Unlike peat pots
that will still be attached to the roots when you pull the squash in the
fall. I also don't grow zucchini . i grow cocozella Italian Marrow
squash finding it very resistant to the squash vine borer and squash
viruses and funguses that plague that family.
The marrows are very good and the yield is great..
I can sow in late April an early may and harvest a good crop beginning in
late July too.
This year was a cold and wet one here in New England and I still got
plenty of squash and I have one in my fridge still so they can be kept
too. LOL Unlike zucchini that get mushy in the fridge after awhile..This
one I let get fairly big. 14 inches long But I am saving it for zucchini
bread (c: > As with all summer squashes eating them small is the best
way.. Smitty
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:57:05 -0500 Patrick Callahan <pac1@tiac.net>
writes:
> I tried 4 inch peat pots for zuchinni two years in a row. I got
> small
> plants and minimal late harvests both years. Thought it was the
> weather, but maybe the peat pots were the problem. hmm. given
> that
> we're talking zuchinni, maybe a small late harvest is not such a
> bad
> thing...
>
> What happens when you plant zuchinni in the ground in New England?
> Is
> that the best way? When you plant using the paper bag pot, how do
> you
> do that exactly, does the paper form a complete container or just
> wrap
> the soil in a bottomless cylinder?
>
> The ground was frozen solid in Acton Ma. USA last week.
>
> -Pat
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Bruce Smith A.K.A smitty
Thyme On My Hands Gardens and Wildcrafting
co-owner of wildcrafting
http://www.egroups.com/group/wildcrafting
