An escalator in my garden.

I have many memories of time spent as a child weeding our vegetable garden. I’m not necessarily saying they were good ones. My mom and dad were great gardeners but at that stage my siblings and I would have rather played Pac Man. One year my parents decided to put us in charge of the weeding. We ended up mowing the weeds that carpeted the rows between the vegetables! Amazingly enough we had a great harvest that year.

While I wasn’t a fan of weeding, I was a fan of vegetables, especially zucchini. My mom would make zucchini bread, zucchini soup, zucchini cookies and of course my favorite, stuffed zucchini. My home has plenty of room to garden but my sunniest spots have already been planted with flowers. I have had some veggies – like tomatoes and peppers – in pots but I would love to try zucchini. If only I had room.

Enter Incredible Escalator, a climbing zucchini from Renee’s Garden. I am so excited as this space-saving climbing zucchini will look beautiful scrambling over the arbor in my cutting garden. It will have to share some space with the Major Wheeler honeysuckle but I’m sure it will be fine. This climbing zucchini is the answer for those who might be spatially challenged and I can easily imagine it being used for some of my roof garden clients. The packet of seeds is ready to go but I will need to wait to plant until things really warm up and night temperatures are over 55 degrees. Giving the plants some compost and full sun will allow me to harvest in about 58 days. And enjoy zucchini bread in 59 days! Now I am more anxious than ever for spring.