On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:19:49 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
wrote:

We have already picked a couple (delicious and pretty!) and there are
LOTS more on the vines which are now running all over one of our garden
plots. LOL this must be like that infamous pattypan we've been hearing
about.

Sounds like it. But the pattypan is a bush squash: it
expands equally all the way around, no runners.



The catalogue said 5 foot runners but none of ours are less
than ten feet. They have invaded the carrots and are now at least six
feet up the 8' high tripods that my picklers were/are growing on (the
picklers have a wilt that I hope does not infect the squash) and some of
our tallest tomatoes. Man do they climb well! Awesome! These babies
need no coaxing. They also keep running on the driveway and the garden
paths and I have to keep moving them in again. What a fun plant. And I
am so glad because I wanted to get a lot more zucchini before the end of
October. So if the frost holds off (Missouri Z 5b), I will have plenty
more.

So thanks to all who recommended them. What a trip.

I *must* grow them next year. I don't know where though:
somewhere where they can ramble. Probably outside the
garden.

We have a place where we have mulch dumped and mushroom soil
dumped when we buy it, and it tends to get overrun with
weeds after we've moved the mulch, etc. Maybe the
trombocino would like it there, and fight off the weeds.

Pat
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