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I know it's ok to bury tomato seedlings deep when potting on, but what about squash? Two of my seeds have shot up suddenly on a sunny windowsill and the stems are about 3" long. Can I plant them up to the seed leaves or will they rot?

Well I do..almost to the seed leaves..but you do have to be really careful not to over water for start with.

Thanks, will give it a try.

You could try, but however you do it I recommend planting them into a little mound rather than into flat earth (if that makes sense) so that excess water runs away from where the stem is, or they will rot away instantly, and that's awful when your seedling was so healthy to begin with (the sad voice of experience) :(

Thanks for the tip- just in time! :D

wow it's hard to imagine anything being so wet it would rot this year  :( I suppose as someone on here said the other day, at least in a drought you can water - not much you can do if it's too wet!

Thanks goodlife - good to know you can bury leggy squash. I didn't know that, though I'd seen the tiny root nodes at the base of the stems - of course they're a trailing plant, so it makes sense they can make roots from points on the stems, like tomatoes.