13th and 14th zucchini/ronde harvested

The ronde was yesterday from the air conditioner plant; the zucchini was today from the southmost of the newest transplants in the central bed.

6th, 7th, and 8th zucchini/ronde harvested

^^^

Harvested zucchini(/ronde) #5 -- and a few more are on the way

#5 was from the central bed, east-most plant which gave one of the earlier zucchinis.

That same plant will soon provide #6 (just another day or two to go.)

And, the ronde south of the air conditioner has one that took and has started to swell, and a second flower that opened this morning, so potentially #7 and #8 on the way there.

And, another of the central bed zucchinis flowered today; we'll see if it takes.

No females have opened yet among the youngest transplants.

First (only?) ronde harvested!!!! No other promising rondes/zukes yet

It may be the only summer squash I get all year at this rate, with 10* plants argh!!  But at least all was not lost, I did get this one, precious, beautiful ronde, almost 1 pound.  Absolutely no other promising rondes/zukes have appeared yet.

*Actually 16, now that I've just finished putting in 6 new transplants.

Ronde de nice continue to produce -- severe signs of SVB, wonder how long they'll keep going

Getting ~1-2 rondes per week the past few weeks, whereas I haven't seen a mature zucchini in quite a while. At least one or two of the ronde plants has major signs of SVB, with the vine hugely split open. So, I imagine their end is near, but given I haven't done any SVB control other than a little bit of egg monitoring last month (haven't done any BTK or other stem interference), I guess I'm somewhat impressed so far. Maybe they do have some little bit of SVB resistance, even if not fully SVB-proof. Will be interesting to grow them again next year to see if this repeats.

Harvested a ronde

Harvested a ronde. There's one more ronde that took, will be ready in a day or two. After that, no rondes/zucchinis on the horizon... Oh and a week or two ago I stopped doing any checking for SVB so likely they'll conk out fully soon anyway. Quite a change over last year, when I wrote a post on August 16th that I had 8 zucchinis in the fridge and that they were doing great.

1 zucchini (kitchen window) + 1 ronde (air conditioner) harvested

A rebound after whatever happened to all the summer squash plants.

Ronde de nice by air conditioner's new fruits are yellow (ie not viable) -- likely no more rondes for a while

Oh no!  This morning I harvested another great ronde from the air conditioner plant (it's been quite productive), but, all the new fruits on it have that yellow tinge and hollow feeling.  So, I cut them off, no sense wasting energy on those.  This plant developed a second "arm" (still small/immature), I wonder if that's draining the energy?

So, there won't be another ronde for a while, it seems:
- air conditioner plant's fruits are yellow
- hydro meter plant still very immature/small
- west bed plant still only a bunch of leaves

First ronde de nice harvested

It's cute!  Will take some getting used to though, the colour and shape.

Haven't eaten it yet.