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Re: Cucumbers and zucchinis seasoned with a cowlick

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Thanks Trudi! I think I will do just that!-Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Davidoff <sdavidof@optonline.net>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 5:25 AM
Subject: 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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