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Re: squash

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Teri,

It may just be the male flowers that are shriveling up and falling off.  The
female flowers will look "pregnant"  with a baby squash behind the actual
flower.  It is my experience that the male flowers start blooming first and
then a week or so later the female flowers start.  Last year we had to hand
pollinate or the female fruit would get about 2" long and then shrivel up
and get mushy.  To hand pollinate, we would get to the garden in the a.m.
when all of the squash flowers were open and pluck the petals off the male
flowers.  Then we stuck the male flower into the open female flower and
viola!, the female flower was fertilized.  You may not have to do this if
you have a lot of bees to help the progress.  Hope that this helps!

Necia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teri Epp" <kitty@cwnet.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: squash


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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> My patty pans are floppy too and it looks like they will break off if
anyone
> bothers them to much- lots of flowers but they flowers just shrivel and
die-
> anyone know why?-Teri
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrea <andrea@gravitt.org>
> To: <sqft@listbot.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:57 AM
> Subject: squash
>
>
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> > Well, I've got this squash plant growing in a pot out on the patio
(round
> > heirloom zucchini) and I've been able to eat a few squash now and then.
> I've
> > been thinking about how I can plant this stuff when I get the garden up
> and
> > running.
> >
> > I know zucchini takes a lot of space, it is a big plant even in the
> > container. But it is falling all over the place and I'm wondering if
three
> > feet will do it. Or is there something about this particular plant. It
is
> so
> > top heavy that it just flops over. Is it supposed to do this? Do you
have
> to
> > stake these things, or how do you keep it from taking over the entire
> block?
> >
> > I started it inside and put it out at the same depth, but I wonder if I
> > should have. There is a good 5 inches of stem before there is anything
> else,
> > and another 4 or so before any real leaves. Is that just because I had
it
> > inside? "Everybody" says squash doesn't transplant well, but I started
it
> in
> > a peat pellet and then a small container before moving it to the big
> > container, and it didn't seem to bother it. I can tell that it would be
> > trouble trying to start these in a flat, however.
> >
> > I was over at the Atlanta Botanical Garden a few weeks ago, and they
have
> > pattypans growing in the vegetable garden. They were small and have not
> even
> > started flowering, I think they started the seeds outside. They did look
a
> > bit floppy as well. I'm going to have a look when I go back and see how
> they
> > are doing.
> >
> > Something else interesting I saw out there, was they had some tomatoes
> caged
> > with twine. They put big wood stakes around about a half dozen tomato
> plants
> > and strung twine everywhere.
> >
> > Andrea
> >
> >
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