Thanks for relaying your “DUH” moment. I believe if I pull some of my guys up too, I’ll find the same thing.....Makes a lot of sense.....duh
This is not the time, normally, to grow squash. However, I figured since my grow season can last until December most of the time, I would plant it and see what happens. It's supposed to be resistant to moths/borers and other pests like that, and that's what killed my regular squash plants planted in the ground.
I'll have to be aware of the blast of the sun here and use the dolly rightly_dividing made, to roll it in the sun for the first part of the day, then roll it into shade.
I have surely found that gardening is individual to the exact location you are and what is happening in your individual space.
My sweet potatoes in the 10 gallon grow bag had something eating holes in the leaves weeks ago, and I sprayed it with organic Garden Safe Fungicide 3, which is also insecticide, and miticide. I did that maybe three days on top of and under all the leaves and on the limbs down to the dirt. The leaf eating stopped and it grew much bunches of leaves and looks fine.
When I planted the sweet potatoes, it wasn't the right time to plant those, either, but again, I'm hoping the long grow season will allow them to produce potatoes. I think if they were planted in the ground instead of a container, they would be dead. I can control what happens in a container including good potting soil mix that feeds them, but I can't physically dig ground up and do all that fertilizing crap, and besides there are critters in the ground that eat what I plant in the ground and I can't control the larger critters, squirrels and birds, that murder my seeds and eat small plants. A pox on ground dirt.
I'll have some traveling onion and strawberry plants coming and will have too many for my space, so I'm going to take some of both to rightly_dividing. Rightly lives in a rural area and if I hadn't had my GPS guy to tell me where to make the numerous turns, I wouldn't have made it there. I also had directions Rightly sent so I was using both to make sure the GPS guy knew what he was doing. GPS also led me back out. After I've been there a few times, I'll know where those turns are.