re: 2019 Garden Thread

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80+ degree highs and 60+ degree lows

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That’s been the last few weeks here. With a couple of cooler days and nights mixed in. But most days it has been pretty warm.

My cucumbers are about 1.5 - 2 feet tall right now and doing great. I have lots of flowers, and many started baby cukes. Problem is that I have no bees yet that I can tell. They are growing great though. I'll try to share some pics later.

I've been having to hand pollinate all of my squash/zucchini. No bees yet.

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You can have fertilize the female flowers with a q-tip. Just dab it on a few male flowers and then add that pollen to the females. It will help if you aren’t seeing bees. If you don’t you’ll see a lot of baby cuces that die off before they get bigger than an inch.

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Yah, I have. Still sucks though.

Huh. I have some Catnip seeds, so I may have to try this out.

If you have a cat or a neighbor has a cat, prepare for them to turn in to a junkie. My cat lays in the garden under the catnip plant all day everyday. She gets stoned and watches the squirrels steal our food.

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You can have fertilize the female flowers with a q-tip.

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I have used a small soft bristle paint brush before. It kinda mimics the hair on bees that the pollens sticks to.

Here’s a few pics I took before the storm yesterday.

Roma’s


Cayenne. These are really starting to produce. The plants are very healthy.


Cajun Belle. Also starting to take off.


California Wonder. If you look at the top of the pic you can see a couple of bare stems. Squirrels got to it.


Celebrity plants. Making lots of blooms. Same with the Better Boys (on the stakes to the left), but they are lagging a little in growth compared to the Celebrity and Roma’s.


All of the Cajun Jewel okra have sprouted.

First time growing beans in my raised garden. They are in one raise bed by themselves. They look okay but the leaves are more yellow than my tomatoes and corn in neighboring raised bed. Would a little high nitrogen fertilizer help or be harmful?

PillageUrVillage

Details on how you built that raisedbed?

ETA: just saw your earlier post (I’m reading this thread backwards)

It looks great

I was at the homebrew/hydroponics store this morning and they had a fruit plant I'd never heard of: Tzimbalo Melon Pear . Picked one up just to see. Supposed to be a sweet and tart cucumber/melon thing. We'll see.