Hybrid Squash Update
The little squash plants from our 'hybrid' are growing well.
posted by Mike at 6:06 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2005
The little squash plants from our 'hybrid' are growing well.
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- Mike's 2007 Allotment Photo Gallery (All uploaded pics)
- Mike & Sue's Garden Diary
- Mike's Nature Diary
- Lytham Hall Apiary
- The Saunders' Allotment Page
- The Allotment Lady
- KT's Kitchen Garden
- My Tiny Plot
- Losing the Plot
- Head Burro
- Pumpkin Soup
- Calendula & Concrete
- A Country Garden
- Greenmantle
- Dave's Allotment Blog
- Stew & Fritha's Allotment
- Phil's Garden Diary
- Vidaverde Seed Catalogue
- The Mammoth Onion
- Simpson's Seeds
Previous Posts
- The corn & beans are doing OK.
- Shedful!
- Shedful (2)
- Onion Update
- Rust Never Sleeps
- A fine bowl of onions!
- The herbs are doing ok.
- Salad Days
- Little Cucumber
- Garlic Chopped
1 Comments:
Hi Mike
Lovely allotment - and gorgeous images. And a great way to keep an allotment diary - my diary is all on paper with scribbles and completed very sporadically!
Your pictures brought to mind a couple of things I've learned that might be useful:
My allotment is tiny and very urban (it's in Hackney) and I have to really squeeze crops in to get much out! Your little squash picture is after a picture of your neatly mulched sweetcorn in a separate bed, so I thought I'd share a space saving ruse with these two things - I've grown mine in the same bed this year and it's worked really well. The corn is tall enough still to be wind-polonated and thrive up above, and the squash leaves shade out weed growth beneath. You just need to do a tiny bit of weeding before the squashes get big enough.
With squashes - when I plant them out I use a water cooler bottle with it's bottom cut off then put over the top of them as a temporary cloche to give them a bit of protection until they get established. They don't look pretty - but they are effective.
Looking forward to keeping track of your enviable progress!
Christine
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