Let's Garden

Yet another week has passed and we're successfully starting cucumber and zucchini season! I've been trying to figure out which part of the gardening season is my favourite, and I can't really decide. Each of them has its own beauty, but also challenges.

Right now, the challenge is to keep an eye on all those cucumber and zucchini plants to act as soon as there are any changes as they could be affected by mildew, squash vine borers, squash bugs, aphids or who knows what. Luckily, we haven't had many issues yet, just a couple of zucchinis which were not well pollinated. However, this is just a cosmetic issue for me and as I don't have time to pollinate those flowers manually I simply accept when those insects don't do the best job possible.

In the first years of gardening, I didn't enjoy yellow zucchinis so much. They have different taste and texture than the classic green ones, but I grew to enjoy them and as I find them more resistant I might only plant the yellow ones next year.