[doodad]

Morning. We ate our first tomato, zuchinni and onions this week. I made a stack of them with local goat cheese and basil from the herb garden. Yum.

Tomatillos are about to riot. Peppers looking good.

But, my squashes keep dropping blossoms. They are still fairly young, but I got one zuke. Is something wrong?

[Red_Devil 232]

Are they male or female blossoms?

[who knows what evil?]

Snacking on the very first of our tomatoes here in New England...stupice, cherry roma, tumbling toms, sungold select...tasty. Many others on the verge of turning, as well.

Roasting hot today, though...will have to get some plants out of the sun, as it heads toward 90. :-(

[who knows what evil?]

Is something wrong?

May need to pollinate by hand...very easy.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Maybe infrequent watering?

This is what I do to my pepper plants, it might work on zukes too:

I mix one teaspoon epsom salt to one quart of water in a spray bottle. When the plants start blooming I spray them to help retain the blossoms, therefore more fruit. I have doubled/tripled my yield this way.

[seekthetruth]

Try some Epsom Salt around your squash plants and just water it in a little, not getting the leaves wet. See if that helps. I prepared my soil with Epsom Salts before planting my squash and had the best luck EVER with squash.

[greeneyes]

Jealous about the tomatoes. We have none here yet. One of my tomatoes in the topsy turvy has early blight. Hubby sprayed it with a fungicide. Hope it doesn’t spread. We had late blight last year, and burned everything. We also created a new garden plot back along the fence line to plant this year. Hoping to avoid it this year.