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Well, I have some good news and some bad news.
Good news is the zucchini is doing really well….
Bad news is….. My cucumbers
….are really zucchinis!
I didn’t get a chance to plant seeds because Emily had been in the hospital. So, I bought these cucumber plants as small starts at Home Depot. I kept waiting for them to look like cucumbers…. I thought maybe they were just a different breed. Well they are, totally different!
3 comments:
Michelle - I have beautiful pumpkins and gourds growing...and it turns out they aren't getting pollinated....so the beautiful flowers that would be fruit - just end up dying and shriveling.
I'm so disappointed! I hear you can use a q-tip to pollinate...but I'm not sure I'm up for that! LOL.
I'm getting about 1/10th of the crop I could be if we just had more bees in the world!
"Nothing discourages an amateur gardener like watching his family eat the entire garden at one meal.—Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations"
Ha ha ha boy do I know that feeling!
Amy, great idea. I'll have to do some research on q-tip pollinating. My pomagranit and orange trees both only have a few pieces of fruit on them but had LOTS of flowers. I do have bees but they are mostly out front. I'm not sure I want bees out back by the pool and entertaining area though. Maybe I could should try to attract more hummingbirds into the back by the garden to do some pollinating.
Too funny!
I love zucchini, but my boys love cucumbers. Zucchini is winning at our house this year, too.
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