it was my first garden. i may have been slightly overambitious.
johnifer and i had a vision. we dug a plot about 4′ x 7′ and headed to the despot to buy some plants. we loaded the cart with their paltry selection of tomatoes and peppers and headed home to put them in the ground. i wasn’t satisfied. the garden was cramped, but there wasn’t enough variety. i extended the plot an additional 7′ or so and headed to the local garden center to see if they had a better selection. they did. i came home carrying a flat brimming with fruits, herbs and veggies: strawberries, cantaloupe, basil, chives, dill, cilantro, zucchini, cabage, green beans, broccoli, cucumbers, and what i thought was spaghetti squash.
i guess i assumed that half of my plants would die, this being my first garden and all. they didn’t. in fact, almost everything grew about 10x bigger than i assumed it would. i didn’t read the tags. it was poor planning on my part.
my small plot of land has turned into one giant green mass. i’m not sure what’s going on in there anymore. there are tomatoes in the beans, there are cucumbers in the cabbage, in short, it’s a mess. i’m up to my eyeballs in zucchini, my peppers are coming out and my cucumbers are blazing a path through the herbs. i noticed among the scruff a few days ago, a tiny blossom on my “spaghetti squash.” a few days later, i had what appeared to be a summer squash with a case of genital warts. i started doing some squash research, meaning i looked on wikipedia. apparently spaghetti squash and zucchini can cross pollenate, and since mine are nextdoor neighbors, i thought it might be a possibility. i can’t, however, imagine two smooth skinned squashes inbreeding to make a warty one. but i’m not too sure on the baby makin’ specifics of the squash world.
i’m still not sure what it is, but i picked it and i’m funsta cook it.
mystery squash 