Fruit or vegetable?

I have been asked if the vegetables are considered fruit or vegetable. Here is the down and dirty, if the item in question is a root crop, it is definitely a vegetable because it is a thickening of the roots of the plant. If the item is first a flower followed by a squash, cucumber, okra, tomato, bean or pea then it is a fruit.

We call a lot of things from the garden a vegetable, but in reality they are really fruits. Fruits can be savory or sweet and that tends to make the difference in a person's mind.

I really do not care what you call them, I call them vegetables for the ease of description. People are not really very educated about produce and the result is less questions.

The biggest question in my house is "where are the squash"? Beanie and Jimmy want their new found delicious veggie on a more regular basis. I am trying to comply with their wishes (and mine).

On Sunday night, I planted squash and cucumber seeds in peat pellets, covered them with a lid and left town Monday morning. I went to Savannah on Monday afternoon and forgot about the seeds.

On Wednesday, we packed up our youngest son and brought him home from his internship in Savannah. My husband looked at my newly planted seeds and could not believe his eyes. Everything had already sprouted.

Much to my dogs' delight, on Sunday morning, I replanted one of my squash buckets with new squash plants and Nasturtium seeds. The flowers really fight the bugs and that is a big help.

For my sanity and for the sake of my dogs, I sincerely hope the squash continue on their rapid growth. If they don't, I will be sneaking into gardens at night to procure squash.

My old dog has always had the philosophy of "bite off the leg and then ask friend or foe?". You can ask the air conditioner repairman about that, he has a beaut of a bruise from Beanie on his ankle (where he was bit).

I just don't want to be used for target practice for Beanie.