Re: Transplanting zucchini

At 07:25 AM 12/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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

I dislike peat pots, but they do have their place.  When you plant them, 
pull the bottom apart instead of relying on the roots to grow 
through.  They wick water away from your plants while growing (before 
transplanting).  An alternative is to use one of those plastic berry 
baskets that have numerous holes for the roots to penetrate. Watermelons do 
not like transplanting, and some people successfully use those berry 
baskets in which to start seeds.  Use coffee filters to hold soil in them.

Your Italian Cocozelle "squash" I think is really an edible gourd.  Edible 
gourds do seem to be resistant to squash vine borers according to friends 
who live where those borers are a problem.  Tromboncino and Lagenaria 
gourds are good when eaten young.  Margaret L
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