Squash plants usually produce an abundance of male flowers (pictured right) before female flowers (pictured left)that actually produce the squash.
Posted on 05/17/2013 1:01:42 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Lot’s of trouble, but great eating.LOL
LOLOLOL! The conversation started because the younger woman was leaving early to head to the post office to pick up her shipment of hatching eggs. At that time I didn’t even know that you could mail order chickens (and other poultry).
What heirlooms exactly?
Rose petals are edible. Rose hips have a lot of vitamin C.
I was looking at McMurray last night. Those evil people put VIDEOS of BABY CHICKS on their website. That there’s just dirty tricks.
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/crevecoeurs.html
I mean how cute can you get? Even the babies have the little poofy on top of their little heads.
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/buff_cochins.html
And look at the little feathered feet on the sweet little babies in this video.
I could easily be a chicken hoarder LOL. Good thing we can’t afford too feed that many!
Squash plants usually produce an abundance of male flowers (pictured right) before female flowers (pictured left)that actually produce the squash.
What? I've got squash plants - NOW I HAVE TO LEARN THEIR SEXUAL HABITS? Crap, I don't know if I have males or females.
Johnny, you did not tell me about sex and squash, I mean, squash and THEIR sex.
And they cheep too! Too cute!
The male blooms are just like regular flowers with a stalk. The females look like a tiny little squash with a flower on the very end.
http://eatclosetohome.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/male-and-female-squash-blossom-pictures/
“I put weeds in the compost pile. I generally shred them with the mower first.”
I DON’T HAVE A MOWER.
We feed our weeds (minus the dirty roots), broccoli leaves, beet leaves, chard stalks, etc to our goat. She turns it into lovely manure which when mixed with her oat straw bedding makes the best mulch and garden food. I wind up with a really huge pile every year and let it break down before I use it. Also put it in my big pots for peppers, cherry tomatoes and I am doing my zucchini in a really big pot this year.
Never put meat or dairy in your composter.
We won’t put bread either - husband says it’s because it has fats which might go rancid. No dog poo. No clippings that have weed killer exposure. Leaves are terrific - but oak takes a longer time to break down. All kitchen scraps except ones mentioned above are fine. Egg shells, coffee and tea, greens, fruit and veg debris, yes. We toss in the remains of HEALTHY spent garden plants at end of season. We have a few hens so their manure sometimes goes in to enhance. Good, natural mulch, newspaper bits, and that sort of thing as long as it has no bad chemicals.
We don’t do twigs as they take too long to break down.
Consider starting a worm composter too.
I remember on the old thread (monitored by Red Devil) when we had a graphic discussion of the sex habits of squash plants. Made me blush! LOL
Actually, they will bloom with male flowers first, and the same plant will later bloom with female flower that make fruit.
They work both sides of the street.
/johnny
I love this thread,always learn something. Thanks!
In that case, I guess you could use a mower. Ducking and running
/johnny
PS, I guess I can quit trying to pollinate the male flowers with a paintbrush. They ain’t never going to grow a squash.
“The male blooms are just like regular flowers with a stalk. The females look like a tiny little squash with a flower on the very end.”
Now I see it in the picture. I absolutely did not know that. I’m trying to find out what certain plant leaves look like when the seed puts them out. Johnny suggested a leaf identification website and I found a good one to describe the leaves.
Commercial bread might, but for every 750 gram loaf that I make, about 12 grams of oil get added, so I don't worry about it.
Problem I have with my bread is it goes bad in about 4 days because there are no preservatives. So in the compost it goes.
/johnny
Will put you on the list. I start the thread on Friday afternoon, and we post during the week on that, then I ping the list for the new thread on the next Friday.
Potatoes and Beans are the most satisfying favorites to me. I have to have a little cornbread or bread and tomatoes and a slice of onion to be completely satisfied.LOL.
The wheat, corn, sunflowers etc. provide important compost material to keep from depleting the soil and to improve the structure of our hard clay soil. We only have an acre where our house is. I like flowers too, but decided to switch to mostly edible flowers and landscaping for future plantings.
I am thinking that I might plant miner’s lettuce around the some of the trees we have to replace the grass. Miner’s lettuce grows well in shade and is cold tolerant and an edible green.
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