2016 Vegetable Garden

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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Redtenchu » June 9th, 2016, 9:12 am

ECUPirate wrote:

The ones in the back look like cucumbers instead of squash.

Good looking garden either way.
Oh! I forgot to ask when she got home, thanks.

She is having a problem with her squash (flowers?) rotting before they produce. Anyone know what she might be doing wrong, or steps that can be taken to fix this? I'll take a picture tonight when I get home if that'll help.

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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by ECUPirate » June 21st, 2016, 10:21 am

Redtenchu wrote:

She is having a problem with her squash (flowers?) rotting before they produce. Anyone know what she might be doing wrong, or steps that can be taken to fix this? I'll take a picture tonight when I get home if that'll help.
Rotting or falling off? Squash and zucchini produce male and female blooms and the female blooms are the ones that produce fruit. The males are the pollinators and will fall off without producing fruit.

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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Redtenchu » June 21st, 2016, 10:25 am

ECUPirate wrote:
Redtenchu wrote:

She is having a problem with her squash (flowers?) rotting before they produce. Anyone know what she might be doing wrong, or steps that can be taken to fix this? I'll take a picture tonight when I get home if that'll help.
Rotting or falling off? Squash and zucchini produce male and female blooms and the female blooms are the ones that produce fruit. The males are the pollinators and will fall off without producing fruit.
That must be it, we've gotten some squash in the past few days so I forgot to follow up. I'll let her know about the M/F flowers.

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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Michael Wise » June 21st, 2016, 10:29 am

+1 And the male flowers usually show up first, IME.

Female flowers will be attached to a miniature fruit of the plants variety. When pollenated, the flower will fall off, and the fruit will grow. If not pollenated, the fruit will shrivel up and fall off.

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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Redtenchu » June 21st, 2016, 10:31 am

That's very interesting! I wouldn't have guessed there was M & F flowers.


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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Michael Wise » June 21st, 2016, 10:33 am

Fun fact: The flowers are also edible. The more you know.

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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Mightyquinn » June 21st, 2016, 1:33 pm

Michael Wise wrote:Fun fact: The flowers are also edible. The more you know.
I miss your fun facts!!!! :)


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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Michael Wise » June 21st, 2016, 2:09 pm

Haha! I had forgotten about all the fun facts.

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2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Michael Wise » June 29th, 2016, 7:48 pm

Got about 5 lbs. of yukon gold potatoes tonight. The plants died a little prematurely, but I'm happy with what I got. This was from 10 small seed potatoes.
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Re: 2016 Vegetable Garden

Post by Redtenchu » June 29th, 2016, 8:53 pm

Harvest time is the best!

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