A Tale of Woe
As I have written numerous times I like the taste of zucchini. In fact on Saturday I cooked a rather safe beef stir fry that had an entire home grown Lebanese zucchini sliced up and quartered. However, this article is a tale of woe, not a celebration of my culinary successes. After another attempt to grow Blackjack zucchini I have lost another four seedlings.
The Blackjack zucchini seedlings showed positive early signs and went into a growth phase. I thought finally I have some success and could look forward to some long, slender standard zucchini. However, all have subsequently perished. I simply do not understand what it is that I am doing wrong with these plants. They are getting the exact care and growing conditions that the Lebanese zucchini receives, and that plant is absolutely flourishing in the conditions. In fact it is currently full of flower.
I am now shelving the Blackjack zucchini dream for a while. I will concentrate my zucchini growing efforts on the Lebanese variety that is giving bearing great success. Perhaps I will give the Blackjack variety another crack once we have moved to Wollongong. A move that will be happening soon as we are all ready for a change of scenery due to no small part the cats next door. Another dedicated post coming on that soon.
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January 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Mmmm….I have some blackjack zucchini just growing now. Not sure what my other variety was called now (yeah, I’m such a precision gardener and all :lol:). It has fruit but it’s not fully grown yet.
My BIL cooked some zucchini in a baking dish on the bbq and mmmmmmm was delish!!! Can’t seem to get the rest of the family all that enthused about it though….
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January 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
In a previous Child Care Centre we used to make “Wombat Stew” for the children. It was actually made with shredded carrots, zucchini & shredded chicken along with noodles (the 2 minute variety) & some chicken stock. The recipe was in fact just a simple home-made chow mein using the shredded chicken & veg with the stock & noodles.
The reason we called it “Wombat Stew” is because of the classic Australian story by Marcia K Vaughan http://www.aussiereviews.com/article1987.html, which was one of our all-time favourite reads during group story time. The children were always excited when it was on the menu, so they could recite favourite lines as they ate!
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January 9th, 2008 at 11:30 am
If it’s a mildew prob,apparently spraying with diluted milk helps. Earwigs are also breeding in the millions atm and chomping everything, rolled up pieces of paper are their fav hidey hole,collect the paper early in the AM,submerge in water,then throw in the compost.
Garlic spray is a good stand by for almost any pest too.
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January 30th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
great advice from the commenters too - I am hanging out here to get some tips for my new under construction vegie garden.
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February 13th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Great idea using diluted milk on mildew problem Jayne.
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:01 am
Never grown courgettes but I’ve had great success with cucumbers. (For info, I believe we English call zucchini “courgette”)
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