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Last year I had zucchini and squash in my garden. I plowed them under and this year I have squash and zucchini in my garden that came back from last year. BUT I had planted regular long slender zucchini last year and this year they came backl ROUND. HOW? I have never heard of this happening.
Also my squash last year and this year lose the fruit after it starts to form and gets about 1 1/2" big it falls off.
The cucurbits are are easily cross-pollinated, and since so many shapes now are hybrids it is difficult to save seeds and know what you will get the next year. Plowing under any squash left lasy year no doubt 'planted' some squash that had cross-pollinated seeds.
I can't help with the baby squash falling off. There is a beginner vegetable forum on here (free) where one of the mentors can probably answer that question.
Thanks. I had given my friend a bunch of the plants that had come up from last year and her zucchini are also round. I will be curious to see how big these round ones will get. In fact, at what size are the rounds ones best picked for cooking?
Frankly, I prefer baby summer squash, like zukes about 3-4" long, or round ones no larger than a baseball. But I think a lot of it depends on how you are going to prepare them. I love summer squash sliced in half, marinated in olive oil and garlic, and grilled.
MichalG, same thing happened with me. Last year I planted Burpee "pic-N-pic" yellow squash hybrid and "sweet zuke" zucchini. This year I had over a dozen squashes coming up by themselves in my garden. I transplanted nine of them them, and they all turned out to be these round, pale green zucchini that grow on a very aggressive vine (some of the vine shoots are already 10-15 feet long!).
I have never grown a vine plant before! How the hell did this happen? I feel like I have discovered a super-zucchini for my particular garden conditions, since they came up all by themselves, like weeds! They are beautiful, they are keepers. I am still wondering how this miracle happened.
-George
btw I also had a bunch of tomato plants come up from last year. I love tomatoes and zucchini, because my garden is crappy clay and these plants don't seem to mind. They just produce, produce, produce.
