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To: greeneyes

Made our first batch of pickles last week - honey Pilsner bread & butter. Tomorrow, it’s dill pickle spears. Got my first beefsteak tomato - a 1/2 lb. and a little yellow indigo.

Got white mold on the ground in the new beds. Problem? Read where it’s OK in moderation. Lots of rain.

I’m ready to give up on zucchini and squash - lots of flowers, but no fruit.


4 posted on 07/29/2016 2:31:17 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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I think I have read that sometimes, the first flowering of squash might not set - too many of one type - not enough male and female. Excess heat can also interfere.


6 posted on 07/29/2016 2:33:40 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I’m ready to give up on zucchini and squash - lots of flowers, but no fruit.

I usually lose my squash to worms/bugs, but when I am able to get them growing I often need to hand pollinate

36 posted on 07/29/2016 4:42:26 PM PDT by Darth Reardon (Would I lie to you?)
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I’m ready to give up on zucchini and squash - lots of flowers, but no fruit.

That means they are not getting pollinated. You will have to do your self. What you do is take a Q-tip and rub it around the inside of the male flower it is the smaller flower on the stem . Stick the Q-tip down in the bigger flower and rub it around. That should do it, or pick the male flower peal the petals off and stick the pistil into the bigger one and knock it around.

49 posted on 07/30/2016 9:47:41 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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