I planted one summer squash in my rented plot in town and that things was taking over the whole thing so I had to hack it back, not sure the squash will even be edible, I had to yank out a bunch of the volunteer strawberries that came with the plot too. Now my other veggies are doing better but we've been getting frost the last week and a lot less oxygen thanks to being in the thick of the regional smoke plume. A very strange year, we even had snow a few weeks ago. Could be a brutal winter this time around... we'll see.
The squash story reminds me of a poem recited by Garrison Kiellor many years ago about reading a seed catalog in early spring and imagining the character of vegetable plants by their names in the catalog... one part mentioned a stringy vine that might grab you by the ankles and how one might have to strike it several times with a hoe to make it let go! It goes through my mind whenever I get near that squash plant in my rented plot!
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