Debra, from what I see it is easy to grow leeks. I watched Y-Tube videos on growing leeks.

Busy today. I had to plant all my new stuff! Here it is.


Now I have to drag it all off onto the driveway so it can join all the other veggies already there. I want to re-arrange the veggie pots before I do that so I will wait till tomorrow. It is hot in the sun but not so bad if you stay in the shade. I have been working on the potting in the shade all afternoon.

Closeups.
Mystery melons. Marked down cantalope seedlings with no tag. I know they are cantalopes so they are ok by me. That is a 20 inch pot I put them in.


Three new eggplants, one in each pot.


Tango celery. Ended up I had 4 plants after I seperated them. Yea!


Leeks. Ready for hilling.


Yard Long Beans. Gew these myself from seeds and just transplanted into the pot.


Savoy cabbages. Again there were 4 seedlings in my little supposedly one plant pot.

My seeds came from Burpee so I just sowed 4 each seeds of the Baby (good for containers) Okra and the Tivoli winter squash. I intend to put them in two twenty inch pots like the one I have the melons in. Sowed four seeds to make sure that something comes up. But only going to do one plant per container. But I am trying to think up a spot were I coould but some of that okra in ground.

You're going to feed your whole neighborhood.

Well, I doubt I could find any local takers for Okra! But thinking I will have a lot of zucchini and squash.

But really most things I have a very small amount of. Like I just planted those four cabbages. Four cabbages are not a lot.

So far I have to say the zucchini loves it in pots. Growing like crazy. This is the yellow zuc.


Classic Eggplants that I have had planted out the longest of all my eggplants.

Way to go Rita!

I think your pot is too small for your zucchini, your little fruit is already touching the side of the pot with no where to go, they can get real big in a couple of days.

Margaret, I think I might have underestamated the size pots needed for the zucchinis. I have never seen fruit grow so fast. This morning I have a baby zucchini that has already grown to 7 inches and it would be longer if it wasn't slightly curled (Touching pot). The next largest is 6 inches. I am really looking forward to frying up those two fruits! Can't wait for them to be ready.

But I am not about to repot the zucchini. They will have to stay as they are. But the spagetti squash will go in my new 20 inch pot as it is bigger. Just started seeds yesterday.

Here is my "magic" zucchini. That fruit grew like crazy overnight!

All right! So I dragged my pots to the driveway and re-arranged all my veggie pots so now it is nice and organised. Things that belong together are together, not just thown in the next availbale spot as they were planted out. I am SOOOOOOOOOOO pleased with my driveway veggie garden!

looking down the driveway


looking up the driveway


Closer on the garage area. I have pots and stuff there and I often work there so it is messy. On the table are my bowls of dill, parsley and cilandro I am waiting on sprounting. Two pots of Sugar Lace II peas directly in front of table. Then off to the right are two CLASSIC eggplant in big wide pots.


Now lets start from the bottom and work up thru the veggies.


Zucchini starts the garden rows. Leeks snuck in there.


This is the melon row. It has the mystery melons I planted yesterday, the Green Machine melons and the Armenian Cucumbers (which are technically not cucumbers at all).


Mostly Eggplants. Celery and yard long beans also in there.


Bok Choi. The chard bowl will go there as soon as I move it.


Cabbage and cowpeas rows. Cabbage, cauliflower and bush beans in flats. Cowpeas in those black pots at the front. That little bowl of zucchinis will be tossed. Those are the extra plants I kept in order to have male flowers earlier when I only had female flowers.



I often used to think that the driveway was the perfect spot for veggies as it is always in the sun. I just never thought of all these pots before. But I never grew eggplant and zucchini before and needed space!

Rita, you can't say we didn't warn you about the zucchinis and how fast they grow. The zucchini are best at about 6 or 7 inches so you can eat now, even smaller to use in salads, eating raw or in stirfries.

Going to stir fry it tonight!!! Just wait I am making the fixings of dinner now. All from the garden.

I was just wondering. Does anyone make zucchini the way they make eggplant with the Marinara sauce and the grated cheeze? The only way I make it is either raw in salads or stir fried with a liitle onions and garlic.

A Boston lettuce green salad. Also some greens soup. And stir fried Zucchini for dinner.



green soup!


salad

Rita, you are going to be so healthy eating all those veggies.

I have seen zucchini lasagna, zucchini rolls, I love stuffed zucchini, zucchini boats, layers of tomato and zucchini slices sprinkles with spices and cheese and baked. Google and I bet you can find lots of recipes that will suit your tastes.

Newyorkrita said:I was just wondering. Does anyone make zucchini the way they make eggplant with the Marinara sauce and the grated cheeze? The only way I make it is either raw in salads or stir fried with a liitle onions and garlic.

You can easily use zuchinni instead of eggplant.

Well, I had been thinking this morning that the zucchini would be ready in a day or two but Margaret and Natalie both said it is ready now!

I am thinking I will try zucchini sliced with Marinara sauce and baked. Seems like it would be good. And I have a feeling I am going to have to eat a lot of it. Will Google for more receipes. But it has to be simple or I will never make it.

I always eat a lot of veggies fresh from the garden once my veggies start to produce. I just never had zucchini or eggplant in my garden before.

I love zuchinni raw too Rita. Just eat tit out of the garden like you do peas.

flaflwrgrl said:I love zuchinni raw too Rita. Just eat it out of the garden like you do peas.

Love raw peas. But would rather have raw zucchini in salad. How about sliced with cucumbers and dressing of sour cream? Yummy, I bet.

Oooooooooo YUM! That sounds delicious Rita!!! And cool & creamy. Oh yeahhhhhhhhh