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Re: squash

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Teri,

Our family actually calls this procedure "VeggieSex".

Necia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teri Epp" <kitty@cwnet.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:56 AM
Subject: 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
> >
> >
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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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