07-19-2019, 04:36 PM
squash flowers - you can see the female ones, they have fruit forming the males won't have a fruit behind them, so you pick the male flower remove the flower's outer leaves leaving the center, then that center is touched indie the female flower - and wahllah 'magic' happens.... [
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Think I can pick my first squash any day now.
Of course we know all our neighbors, some better than others and most of them won't even attempt growing a garden here, they all love getting garden produce (as well as fish [])
Yes harvesting from raised bed and trellis is sure better than kneeling on the ground or bending toward the ground. Plus when you don't have a lot of space to garden in anything that can trellis keeps space and trellis can also make for some shade for cooler plants like lettuce or peas. Our trellis is on the bales and it is one of those cattle panels you get at farm stores. Since we have T posts already we just tie them to the posts using last year's baling twine (although our huge spool of twine is enough for our lifetime why not reuse some for other purposes) Sure makes for some colorful gardening [laugh]
Cabbages - I've only planted one 6 pack of them - we love it fried .
We picked our first 2 cherry tomatoes - that is the best thing that so much better than a store bought one for flavor!
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]Think I can pick my first squash any day now.
Of course we know all our neighbors, some better than others and most of them won't even attempt growing a garden here, they all love getting garden produce (as well as fish [
]) Yes harvesting from raised bed and trellis is sure better than kneeling on the ground or bending toward the ground. Plus when you don't have a lot of space to garden in anything that can trellis keeps space and trellis can also make for some shade for cooler plants like lettuce or peas. Our trellis is on the bales and it is one of those cattle panels you get at farm stores. Since we have T posts already we just tie them to the posts using last year's baling twine (although our huge spool of twine is enough for our lifetime why not reuse some for other purposes) Sure makes for some colorful gardening [laugh]
Cabbages - I've only planted one 6 pack of them - we love it fried .
We picked our first 2 cherry tomatoes - that is the best thing that so much better than a store bought one for flavor!
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