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I got the first tomatoes from my garden today. *smiles beatifically* Yummmmmm....

Sir Now Appearing has pointed out that we already have trouble eating the entire CSA box every week even without the garden producing. Having never successfully grown anything before, I honestly didn't expect to get anything much. And, well, the asparagus never did come up (though we would have had to wait a few years for it to establish anyways), and the lettuce and nasturtiums couldn't take the heat, and bugs got the eggplant, and the black raspberries are dead sticks in the ground, and yet STILL I am contemplating the coming harvest with mounting horror.

Example: I planted one squash plant. ONE. I wish to inquire of the management why there are THREE squash plants currently growing over the rest of back garden. I don't even like squash all that much.

(Unlike

thefourthvine, however, I did not plant a pumpkin - thank goodness. Pumpkins should come in cans like God intended.)

And while home-grown tomatoes are, admittedly, better than 99.9996% of any food in this world, perhaps it was not the best idea I ever had to put in 11 plants. I honestly thought most of them would die! They always did before! Perhaps there's something to this composting thing after all...

So, if you are local and you find bags of squash and tomatoes left on your doorstep in the middle of the night... Wasn't me. :)

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I had to laugh -- with you, not at you. When I plant a few seeds of something, they all die. When I plant lots to allow for that, they all make it, and take over! What I want to know is, where did all the lettuce springing up amongst the onions come from? I haven't planted lettuce in years!

(Here randomly via network, and envying your tomatoes.)

Pumpkins should come in cans like God intended.
This is my quote of the day. Seriously.

I don't even like squash all that much.

I suggest you learn to cook with squash blossoms, before the plants conspire and plot to eat you...

The tomatoes are yours, but if you want I will be willing to adopt and remove from your place any excess squash. (And, also if you want, I can teach you to make tomato sauce. From scratch. It is messy and takes most of a day and requires the ability to can or freeze the results, but it can be very good.)

What kind of squash? I have this weird hang-up with squash in that I'm convinced that I hate it in pretty much any of its forms, but every time I both to actually cook and eat some squash I'm reminded that my opinions are incorrect. Give it a chance! And if that fails, make some soup; you can hide anything in a soup. Good luck gardening!