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Re: squash

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thanks- I had no idea about this- I will try the hand pollinatting- tho have
to admit I found myself slightly aroused while reading about it. Went
looking for a smoke afterwards.-Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: JEFF MYERS <JEFF_MYERS@prodigy.net>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: 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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