I planted squash & gave up on the seeds and reused the potting soil. Now I have squash sprouting out of Every pot. .
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One year we bought zucchini seeds and acorn squash seeds, and a friend gave us some leftover yellow crookneck seeds.
They were all zucchini. Zucchini to the right of us, zucchini to the left of us, here, there everywhere zucchini … boy, did we have zucchini.
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LOL, I replicated that with Butternut Squash. Ive given my mom & brother flats of plants & now have them coming out of my transplanted Tree Pots… It shall be a good squash year. ( Never seen every seed germinate must have been excellent seed)
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Karen,
I have a friend who used to work at one of the big nurseries in McMinnville TN. She said that some bigbox stores would place orders, but would tell them, “We’ll affix our own labels.” Bartlett has wide name recognition among the non-orcharding public…as do some apple varieties, like Winesap, Red & Yellow Delicious, etc.
They were banking on… trees not surviving lack of care long enough to fruit, planters not staying at that location long enough for fruit production to commence, or not knowing or caring about the difference in a Bartlett vs Kieffer when those trees finally come into bearing, years down the road.
Don’t know if that is still in play or not.
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I’m sure that happens. My ex wife & I as a College job cared for plants at all the Kmarts Tristate. Very often labels or such would be missing/ Damaged or moved etc… I did my best but honestly if you buy from Box Store thats bought them 2nd hand from a green house that got them from grower… best to get firsthand as possible. We unloaded a few times and just had to categorize by similarity to current stock. Mislabeling is going to happen.
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Don’t plant a hedge when you know you have tree work coming up in a few years! I planted a row of bare root bayberries from the state forest nursery last spring. Guess what the arborists needed to dig up this week? Here they are in a tub before I replanted them. Fortunately, they were still pretty small, and it didn’t take long to put them back. I was also able to use some suckers to remedy gaps from a few that hadn’t made it.
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Re: mislabeling:
Our friend Don Yellman recounted purchasing a Santa Rosa plum at one of the local big box stores … which turned out to be a Fuyu-type kaki persimmon
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LuckyP - That’s a good one! Not even a plum!
A friend of mine has a small business advising home owners about orchard planning, pruning fruit trees, etc. She has multiple stories about being called “to help with a plum tree” and finding out that it’s a pear and so on.
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That is what I did this year. (While I gritted my teeth! 
) I used to put 2 plants in a cage. Always overgrown mess by the end of the summer!
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Argh, my worst by far was cultivating very deeply (6 - 8 inches) around some one year old apples. I thought I was clearing out all of the weed roots, but actually I was clipping many of the feeder roots. Worse yet, a few weeks after I made everything “neat and clean”, we had a squall which easily tore out several of the trees which now lacked enough root for stabilization. And just to put the cherry on the whipped cream on the sundae, when I replanted, I left the trees tall, and used stakes and supports that were so tight that the trees didn’t move in the gentle breezes and build up strength as the wood was “exercised”. (Smarter now, trees in a new row next year I learned to mulch, and “prune down” to get a large number of low branches early on so that the tree always had a big sail from the start. Apparently it’s windier here than I thought, or my B118 is not as well anchored as I had read.)
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Reminds me of a comment someone made when I moved here: “It’s a nice safe town, no one even locks their doors. Except in August. Otherwise, you’ll come down to the kitchen in the morning and find that someone has left a bushel of zuccini on your table overnight”.
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@ CedarMeadowFarm
THAT is hilarious! And very sweet. 
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Plum-tayto, Persimmon-tahto, what’s the big difference?
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here they stick them in your mailbox. 
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Update: I found two buds on an apple tree that actually took! I’m so happy right now that even with all my beginners mistakes I had some success!
The bud is quite high up, so the picture is really crappy but I intend to go look at it with a ladder so I can really look at the union…
The second bud is even higher up so could not get there without a ladder but it looked good as well!
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MuddyMess I’m wondering 8 years later if you’ve ever finally won the Trumpet vine battle? I’ve been dealing with them for 4 years. Suckers never stop. Will this enemy of humanity outlive me?
They might pop up and grow over a foot a day and look healthy as a fresh plant can be. I dig them up but they always return shortly. Through my mulch by my trees and vegetables. Bermuda grass doesn’t stop them. Nothing does. They grow under weed fabric and stay there for years. Grow under concrete. I don’t use poisons but I’ve tried vine and stump killer. That doesn’t work. It spreads underground in concrete like clay and rock soil. Nobody knows how to eradicate it. Nobody can understand this evil plant that won’t ever die. I see nurseries selling it with no warning as a pollinator. Yeah it’s a pollinator that will grow through your walls and poison your dogs that aphids and ants will always flock to. I hate it.
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MuddyMess left the forum several years ago.
Thanks @mamuang figured it was a long shot. I guess the only way to beat that Trumpet Vine is to rip out the top 3 feet of yard or move. Wish my veggies were that resilient.
I’ve been fighting trumpet vine. I cut it back to the ground and spray with triclopyr. I’m just going to keep spraying any sprouts with brush killer. Also its cousin wisteria is getting poisoned.