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Cucumbers and zucchinis seasoned with a cowlick

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Hi Teri,

My summer squashes, melons, and cucumbers will all be within thirty feet
of each other, surely this is close enough for a bumblebee to visit them
all. I think the key to success is in NOT telling the plants about what
could happen.

I will let my own experience be my guide in the future because no one is
an expert on my own backyard except me. For every gardener in the world
there is a different opinion on a subject and you have to look at what
you read in books, or forums, or even this list, and take it all with a
grain of salt the size of a cowlick.

I had posted late this past Winter on one of the Garden Web forums that
because I live in a cottage that I have no room indoors for a light
set-up to start seeds. I have just two sunny windowsills and I have to
fight the cat for space on either of them. I sowed all my perennial
seeds into flats throughout the Winter and took them outside and left
them there hoping Mother Nature would do her thing and stratify the
seeds and germinate them all at the right time. I got some pretty vile
letters in reply that I was wasting my time and my seeds, and that as I
had publicly posted the idea that I was going to also encourage others
to waste their time and seeds too. I guess I had stepped on the toes of
the "grow light" club.

Happily, I can report that the method worked unbelievably well for me
and that I have TOO many seedlings and must scramble to find spaces for
them all. 

What I am saying is that you should not be afraid to try something
because you have been told it won't work, or that you can't do it, or
this-that-or-the-other-thing which is only told you to warn you off from
making your own effort. Somebody's failure was THEIR failure, and the
same results MAY NOT happen to you because your garden is not their
garden, your soil is not their soil, your pollinators are not their
pollinators. Let your own eyes and hands, and brawn and brain be your
best teacher.

Good luck with your curcubits, may they all be yummy, healthy and wonderful!

Trudi Davidoff


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