zucchini/squash in pots

[AliceT]

I have gone from having a regular garden to having raised beds to containers and you can plant absolutely anything in a container. I dare someone to tell me I'm wrong. There are grown trees including mature weeping willows that have spent their entire lives in an above-ground man-made "container" and are transported that way from tree farms to other locations. The cost of this would be prohibitive to people like you and me, to be sure. But for corporations - happens every year. And tree farms are happy to oblige such customers.

So, if you can grow all kinds of trees in containers, I assure you, everything else can too. The ticket is the size, the soil, the drainage, the sun exposure and care. Yup.

Oh, and if you've never been to the Land Pavilion at Epcot Center in Walt Disney World, you might want to do that. They are showing how entire vegetable farms can be cultivated without soil, above ground, inside a climate-controlled greenhouse and nourished with a regular spritzing of treated water. It's a real eye-opener.

[RH1]

Originally Posted by southdown

If you find you get too many zucchini - quite likely - try picking them when tiny with flowers attached, and cooking them deep-fried with a stuffing, yummy!

virtualitalia.com - food - zucchini flowers (http://www.virtualitalia.com/recipes/zucchini_flowers.shtml - broken link)

Yes and try not to let them mature too much or the plant will stop producing female shoots (the ones that mature into fruit - the males are just stems with a flower on) - cut the fruit while they're a nice size like you'd see in the grocery store.

Here's a useful page about them: Colourful Courgettes Factsheet - Gardening Australia - ABC

I grew them a couple of years ago in open ground and they sprawled right across the veg patch onto the lawn, they were enormous! I gather you can train them up canes as well if you wanted to try that, but I've never given it a go.

On the plus side, if you keep picking the fruit early you'll keep getting more. You'll run out of recipe ideas before it stops producing!

[sunnyday1998]

Thank you for the tips on growing zucchini. I'm anxious to try growing some in a container. Also learned you can trim this plant with it dying. I will certainly come back to this form with my gardening problems as they come up.

[caustin1]

I have beautiful zucchini plants, tons of blossoms, but no squash.....what gives??

[emfunk]

QUESTION!!!
I am an amateur veggie grower. I did not know it was possible to over water: I have been adding water EVERYDAY!!! My cute little baby zuccs have shriveled up and died Is it possible for them to spring back and how often should I water them???? PLEASE HELP!

[harry chickpea]

No, they won't spring back. They would be dead now from damping off. Replant (there is still plenty of time) and use a moisture meter. Ask at any of the big box stores or nurseries and they will know what you need.

[Icy Tea]

We'll need some zucchini recipes. My favorite is to just slice them and add them to spaghetti sauce or lightly cook them and eat them as a side dish green vegetable. But my mother is pretty good about making zucchini bread for the family. Now that's what zucchini is all about.
My brother is trying to grow eggplants in containers and I'm curious to know how much they produce?

[gwynedd1]

This is from last year and its really a photo of the climbing limas and a zuchetta squash but you can see the Round De Nice squash leaves to the far right. It was quite large at that time of year for my zone because the other advantage is it can be moved from green house which it was. So it is indeed possible.