Started Cucumbers ... What about squash?

[HunkieDorie23]

I started my cucumbers Friday and they are starting to sprout. I was wandering if I should start my butternut squash also. Normally I can wait and start them in the garden but last year I got zero squash because they didn't ripen enough. Last year was a really wierd and cold year but I am almost out of frozen butternut squash. I know Libby's pumpkin Co had the same probably so it was a wide spread issue.

Is anyone else starting their winter squash indoors?

 

[lesa]

Absolutely, it works great!

 

[digitS']

All of them, this year . . . yes.

Buttercup is usually a safe bet for outdoor sowing. I can't remember ever planting indoors, in pots. However, I am tired of the short winter storage life that is so common. I mean, the whole purpose of growing a winter squash . . .

Also, I'm again trying some kabochas. They never really had a chance of a good start, let alone - a good finish. Coddle them as babies and expect well-mature fruit , that's how I'm hoping it turns out.

A cool June here can be really tough on melons and cukes. The cukes generally survive but don't produce well. The melons can just, up and die :/! There's no reason for me to even attempt direct seeding the melons.

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

I started my zuccini. ...in my grill!! I have this old, built in outdoor grill--it looks a little like a campground built in grill--and I left a zuccini on it last fall. It rotted, the seeds fell into it, and some leftover wood and leaves become soil--replanted 10 volunteer seedlings from that!! TOLD you I was lazy!!

 

[HunkieDorie23]

I started my zuccini. ...in my grill!! I have this old, built in outdoor grill--it looks a little like a campground built in grill--and I left a zuccini on it last fall. It rotted, the seeds fell into it, and some leftover wood and leaves become soil--replanted 10 volunteer seedlings from that!! TOLD you I was lazy!!

I think it's kinda fitting because the zuccini could in fact end up in your grill.

We had a cool wet June and a Coldest July on record last year. Muskmelons... no, squash....no, watermelons... yes, but only the sugarbabies, pumpkins.... yes but vary limited (4 plants, 4 pumpkins), cucumber....yes but very short season and didn't produce well.

I think I will start them the 1st of May. Hopefully I'll get some room in the greenhouse by then. Lettuce and kolrabi will be in the garden by then ( I hope).

 

[lesa]

Ducks- I love volunteers!! That takes the cake! Nature wants, what nature wants! Too funny!