Yes, it definitely makes sense to give the special seedlings special treatment! At least until you have an abundance of special seeds to work with, maybe next year. 
(Laugh.) “Frost” and “rain” are almost synonyms in my climate. Our last frost usually happens at the same time as our last rain, and our first frost usually happens at the same time as our first rain. 
Whereas here where I’m at, we had our “official” last frost date on the 15th, our actual last frost this year was the 6th, and we’re just about to head into our spring rain/storm season.
Nifty! Getting rain during the warm part of the year sounds quite nice. 
Maybe if we occasionally had clouds in summer (we pretty much . . . don’t have clouds), our heat and UV levels wouldn’t be so insane. 
My pepo squashes really do seem to love those 14 hour days of extremely hot, extremely high UV sunlight, though.
There are loads of flowers, but im thinking im short on pollinators, its the second week of flowering with male and female flowers and im getting pointy squash that didn’t pollinate. However, the warty looking type is pollinating, so is the yellow and patty pan types.
Well, i saw only two little leaf cutter beas inside the greenhouse. They must be overwhelmed with all the blooms. Most squash are getting pollinated, but here are two early fruits that didnt. They are still good to eat, in soup or as fritters, Im gonna make them into relish.
The avalanche of zucchini has started.
Woo hoo! Bring on the avalanche of zucchinis!
How exciting! 
I have lots of squash sprouts right now. No true leaves yet, but they’re probably only a few days behind yours!
My squash patch this year includes black beauty, costata romanesco, long white, Homs kousa, and costata x kousa I made last year. My plan is to do intentional crosses among black beauty, kousa, and costata Romanesco with the goal of putting the superior flavor of the costata into a package with the heat tolerance of the black beauty and kousa. I’ll submit seeds from my crosses again this year.
I planted the GTS Summer Mix exactly 14 days ago.
This is how it looks now:
Methodology:
In the winter, I dug under some goat manure, covered it with a 2x4 weed barrier. One side has landscape staples, the other side 3 rocks/bricks. Before planting, I remove the rocks/bricks, flip over (like a page in the book) the weed barrier and put the rocks/bricks back on top. This provides a weed free area to plant seeds in, the weed barrier provides the plant a starting spot to start climbing on. This spot has a comfrey plant next to it, which will be used as chop-and-drop mulch.
I created multiple spots in my dry garden this way, the weed barrier makes it easier to visually spot the plantings so I won’t accidentally step on the plants. The spots are small enough to mulch and the dead zone created by the weed barrier small enough to be quickly repopulated by soil animals and roots.
Maarten
Oooh, so are you dry farming your pepos? I love drought tolerance! 
Do you get a lot of rain in the summer, or are your summers pretty arid?
I get 4 inches a month in the summer, not too bad, my soil is clay so it should have some stored water from winter/fall.
I am dry farming most of the GTS seeds, but I do have a couple of spots near water holding tanks that I will baby during the summer, so I will get at least some seeds to share and use next year. Last year all my muskmelons perished, so I moved to a “baby plants the first year, get a lot of seeds, overwhelm the weeds with your good seeds, most will perish but the sheer quantity of good seeds will lead to victory.” Kinda like Russia won WW2.
Maarten
Heh, makes sense!
Hey, 4 inches of rain a month in the summer sounds great! I can see how you can easily get away without watering things, especially if your soil is clay and therefore good at holding water in.
Do you tend to pull out the weeds, or do you tend to leave them and select for the plants that can handle weed pressure just fine?
For the pepos, I only pull weeds to get them established. Once established, the big leaves float on top of the weeds, so they are fine
Maarten
Awesome.
There was some creeping charlie adjacent to one of the spots where I planted a squash/sorghum combo, in the 3 weeks since it has been planted, the creeping charlie has overrun the little patch. Not a big problem, as it could work as a living mulch, except that creeping charlie is alleopathic and none of the sorghum or squash sprouted. 6 feet away, a similar spot but no creeping charlie, and the sorghum and squash sprout fine there.
And so starts my battle to first contain, then erradicate creeping charlie from my garden.
Maarten
Is your Creeping Charlie ‘Glechoma hederacea’ or something else? I have gobs if it all over the area I’m planting and I didn’t realize it had allopathic properties!
Most of my first planting of pepos got eaten down to stumps along with 2/3 of the cukes and several of my most precocious looking Chioggia pumpkins.
I’m not sure if the culprit was deer or my geese 
I’ve replanted and will put some branches around them to see if I can ward off the munchers.
Aww, man! An allelopathic groundcover that spreads like crazy is a trial. Hoary cress fills that niche in my garden, that pill!
Of course, if anything does manage to sprout in the place with the creeping charlie, save those seeds, 'cause it’s gotta be something special!
Yes, ‘Glechoma hederacea’.
Here is a spot with creeping charlie present , but not totally covered, 4 plants popped up:
This is a study where they looked at creeping charlie’s allelopathy: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2745.1999.00358.x
(interesting, it suppresses germination, but has a positive effect on root and shoot growth, so perhaps transplanting instead of self-seeding)
This is another post, on permies.com, talking about the allelopathic impact on squash:
https://permies.com/t/56617/ground-ivy-underappreciated#2936513
Maarten
