Zucchini success

The first yellow Zucchini is about 5 cm. long.

Raised bed with Thai eggplants and Zucchinis.

Since my wife a few years back tasted my dads homegrown zucchinis stuffed with pork and herbs on a holiday in Denmark, she has wished for me to grow her some here in Thailand.

I have tried several times without any success. Most of the seeds germinate fine, and grow to quite large plants. But before there's any sign of flowering, they slowly wither away.

If it is because they have been too moist in the rainy season or too dry and hot during the summer, I'm not sure.

But now finally with the last four seeds I had left, it looks like I have cracked the code. The four seedlings - one yellow and three green - was planted in a raised bed allready filled up with Thai eggplants, and they are thriving there.

The soil in the raised bed is a mix of compost, old pig manure and our local red clay soil covered with mulch/compost. The bed is watered every evening.

Now it won't be long before there is stuffed and grilled Zucchini on the dinnertable.

Status on the new compost

The new compost after nearly a month.

It has been close to a month since I build my new compost, and even though a bit optimistic to open it up allready, I decided to take a look inside.

At the bottom it's completely dry.

It was hot inside, smelled like compost and was moist until I reached halfway down, where the center was completely dry. So at least here in the dry season, I need to water it some more.

The most decomposed material was removed and used as mulch in some new beds I have made for Thai eggplants. The rest was put back, covedered with fresh weeds and given a good watering and then coverered with a layer of bananaleaves and a thin layer of soil on top.