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SO I tought I would share this guy's link.
He is awesome.. just a regular Joe.. he grows organic vegetables.. he is in the north east, In minnesota...l. have learned a ton from his videos and he is a riot. So funny.

He especially has some great info on tomatoes and peppers and mulch piles and steeped compost tea.

Did I mention he was funny?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Praxxus55712 This is his channel.

I don't look at too many videos because most are made by people who live outside my climate type. (SoCal)

But I absolutely adore looking at seed catalogs, both paper ones, and internet sites. And I want to try them all.

Well the guy I linked doesn't focus on stuff related to where you are in the country he has great info about starting seeds and compost piles and that kind of thing more of a general all purpose tutorial stuff. but i know what you mean about most things being specific to an area.

I have a really small garden area so I used this method of planting:
http://www.squarefootgardening.com/

My squares were made with wooden craft sticks and twine in the dirt. I didn't buy anything off this site or use their soil mix. My garden was fantastic and I can't believe how much I could grow. I fell in love with beet greens for smoothies and for stir-fry. The zucchini was insane, I had 24 plants and discovered zucchini smoothies, so good!

You had 24 zucchini plants? Good lord. How many squares did you use. Why so many?

I always loved the square foot gardening concept. It really makes sense. I kind of tried to do the same, but it didn't quite work out. It sure is easier to weed and pick.

Faith I had eight squares with three plants each. It was very crowded looking, but each plant produced a lot of zucchini. I really like zucchini, it's so good and versatile. Where I grew up we even had a zucchini festival every year.

My garden is in an urban area and we have a lot of squirrels, opossum, and raccoon's that like fresh vegetables as much as I do, I share. I now have 12 square feet of salad greens planted, it finally started growing this week with our warm weather, the arugula popped up first...can't wait until it's ready.

Well Jen you are a regular Zucchini queen. Wow. I like squash too and yes, with the bland taste you can do a lot with it. I just can't imagine that much though. cool You need to supply the zucchini recipes this summer!!

I agree with Faith--I love zucchini and would love more recipes!!