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Re: Cucumbers and zucchinis seasoned with a cowlick

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Trudi--  I agree with you that any bee worth his salt could pollenate both
the cucs and the zucchini just 50 ft. away. We will see later whether this
is an issue. It's the best I could do.. lol!

bill missen.


----- 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


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> 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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