“But,” my grandfather said, “you have to take two zucchini for every tomato.”
lmao
he inner 8 rows, however, created this hybrid monstrosity that we called Squish. It was pretty– a nice swirly yellow and green combination that made it clear the squash and zucchini had interbred.
Squish became a living nightmare for us. Something about the hybridization caused them to forget how to stop growing, or at least how to grow at a normal rate because those suckers were longer than my dad’s forearm, and bigger around than my (albeit child-sized) thighs.
“Oh,” she said, intuiting what I meant. “Eating the blossoms. Love stuffed blossoms. Pumpkin, squash, zucchini. It keeps the crop down, and you get lots of mileage out of them. You keep a mixed crop that way, too. Plus, people don’t always welcome gifts of zucchini, but they find gifts of blossoms exciting.”
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Re: green thumb nonas
(Anonymous) 2018-11-11 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)https://elodieunderglass.tumblr.com/post/174277942458/gothvegas-thunderandthugnificence
also zucchini is extremely prolific and i'm definitely doing it next year
Re: green thumb nonas
(Anonymous) 2018-11-11 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)Re: green thumb nonas
(Anonymous) 2018-11-11 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)lmao
he inner 8 rows, however, created this hybrid monstrosity that we called Squish. It was pretty– a nice swirly yellow and green combination that made it clear the squash and zucchini had interbred.
Squish became a living nightmare for us. Something about the hybridization caused them to forget how to stop growing, or at least how to grow at a normal rate because those suckers were longer than my dad’s forearm, and bigger around than my (albeit child-sized) thighs.
omg i love them
Re: green thumb nonas
(Anonymous) 2018-11-11 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)good, i love squash flowers