Back after some months. Just wanted to say that my experiment (where I wanted to see whether I could grow C. maxima squashes and not just C. moschata if I had a trap planting of amaranth) failed terribly. I got not a single squash, summer or winter. Even the faithful Black Futsu was only able to produce a single fruit smaller than my fist. I started out trying to pick and kill as many squash bugs and cucumber beetles as I could, but they won. It wasn't a nightmare swarm, but too many for me to keep up with.
I kind of think I didn't have enough amaranth. But either way, not willing to try that again until I have space to plant a lot more squash. It's C. moschatas from here till then, and they're worth it on their own. I'm just greedy.
I still haven't pulled up the two cabbage turnips I planted. Need to do that, but kind of scared, lol. The plants got huge, and there's a three-foot, 2-inch thick purple stalk on one of them that I think was originally root but ran out of space in the container and just started pushing up out of the ground.
Tomatoes are still producing, and we've just been cooking with them mostly. What else... beans sort of ran out of steam during the drought, as did the kale. I'm a terrible waterer, need to hook up an irrigation system again.
Good to be back, I'll be reading back through the thread.
