Mutant squash plant eats preschool children in Berkeley!

@TheHorse It is interesting, a bit scary considering that those are books for teenagers.

@LadyDuck Oh, but teens like to be scared. At least I think they do.

Sounds scary! I don't think I read that one.

Do they look healthy? I hope they get some corn.

@TheHorse- They look pretty healthy to me.

@teamfreak16 Do you know if they've harvested in the past?

Can't remember if we did that in Oakland or not. If we get enough, maybe we'll cook them up!

@BearArtistLady .....When I snuck in my grama's garden it was for raspberries, blackberries and the like. Never was a veg fan.

Ohhh, thinly sliced squash served raw is a wonderful snack. It's also a great way to get kids to eat veggies. If they don't think they're healthy and good for them they'll eat all that they can. I used to sneak out into the garden at home and snack on green beans and peas raw, along with carrots and other veggies that you normally think of serving raw. As a kid I loved veggies and Mom would fix an extra package of them just for me. I'd eat green beans (string beans) and spinach like crazy. My brother would slip me his and it would disappear in seconds. I'm still that way about veggies! I grow squash and I will let the zucchini grow to huge sizes, sometimes three to three and a half feet long and then I would stuff them with ground meat, veggies and top them with pasta sauce and bake them. Then I would sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top and serve that for dinner. My parents and I would "dine" on that for dinner for a couple of nights, it was fantastic!

@TheHorse ...with rational people...yes. I usually find elderly people and kids amusing..they have such weird thinking...today it was princess versus my dad. 2 years old versus 83 years old. Guess who won? Princess..she uses her smile as her weapon...she threw all the newspapers on center table as if it is her place to sit and eat...dad gave her the glare...she smiled her naughty smile and dad couldn't resist...for a moment I thought she would get spanking. lol. He just smiled..and laughed...

Simple jys make me happy! But wouldn't the world be a boring place if we were all the same? I even like a good argument.

@TheHorse I was sure you would like it, pony. I ran across it while doing research for an article I wrote a few days ago. I bookmarked it so I wouldn't forget it and then I forgot it anyway! SMH!

Makes me want to keep talking to my snow peas. Interesting little article.

I think so too. Maybe we'll munch one and cook some of the others.

@TheHorse I have never loved squash,even never buy it.

We're gonna cook the next few with garlic and onion. The corn was a bigger hit with the littlies raw.

@TheHorse sure does, his momma's gona be mighty proud of her boy when he transforms to become pumpkin head lol!

I think it would make a lovely head covering. Give it another week.

@TheHorse bwhahaha, I can only imagine

Maybe I'll do a video called "Squash gone wild" and sell it on late night TV.

For me too.

I look forward. Actually, I like this stage best: looking forward!

@TheHorse Expect your harvest photos

I wonder how big the squash will grow. There are several hidden under the leaves.

@TheHorse It's great when the fruit start developing and you get quite excited to find perhaps three then you go poking around among the leaves and there might be another 6 hiding.

I'm really happy about it, and so are the kids. The squash plants at Ground Squirrel Gardens (out in the desert of Concord CA) are about 1/3 as big.

No, just the plant. The squash are only about 4" long right now.