Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Memorial Day Update
I had my first squash blossom. The next day there was another and it looks like there are many more to come. They have all been female which is strange to me because I have read that the first ones are usually male and then the female start a little later. What is also strange is the blossom is closed up and it seems that the fruit is growing now. I'm not sure how it was pollinated since I have no male flowers. I did walk over to the neighbors house and look at some of the squash and zucchini that I gave him. His plants had a lot of ripe fruit on them and multiple male flowers. Mine could have been pollinated by his. I dug up my thyme because it was not doing well. I planted some more radishes in it's place. Over the weekend, I cut out a piece of 12" 1X12 so I had a square foot piece of board. I then drilled holes so in the board so I would have the correct spacing for my plants when I planted the seeds. I then marked a dowel that I can stick in the holes to make the seeds be planted at the proper depth. I will have to take a picture of it later and post. It really isn't necessary but I was bored and my OCD kicked in. I had actually been thinking about making it for a while.
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