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Posted on 07/09/2022 4:54:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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So I’m having my deck redone. The raised veggie bed next to the house is now full of composite decking and pressure treat sawdust. I think they converted it to a flower bed. What say you?
Are you getting a lot? Or just one or two every now and again? If it’s several dead after you spray, might be a nest somewhere. Stand outside and see if you notice where theynare going in. You can use foam sealer to seal it off if you find it. Sounds like the spray is working though.
We like,the zucchini before it gets huge. Boiled with loads of butter salt and pepper. I never really cared for stuffed or baked when gets larger. We like to add yellow squash to it too. So,delicious.
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I had a guy in the parking lot of the auto parts store hand me a huge zucchini a few years ago. Had to be two foot long and 6 inches around. Ended up making zucchini pickles from it.
I like small zucchini and yellow squash sliced in half lengthwise, cooked on the grill while brushing with a Worcestershire and butter mixture and sprinkled with salt and pepper.
That sounds good too. I’m not a big veggie person, but do love zucchini and yellow squash and green and yellow beans which we can and eat all winter too.
Lol ain’t that the truth. We have a chicken roaster which 1akes really good chicken, but wow is it a pain to clean.
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I’ve got an old Oster Kitchen Center that has a food chopper attachment. Handy but you end up having to disassemble it down to 6-7 pieces that need washing. Got a meat slicer that would be handy for slicing up veggies too but again, disassembly required. Then you have to reassemble these things.
Fine for large quantities and I do think the meat slicer has paid for itself by me making deli ham for $3.50-4.50/lb as opposed to $6 and up at the deli.
I tried zucchini in a tall-ish raised bed and had beautiful plants and blossoms...but all of the fruit had blossom end rot over and over, so I tore them out. Dries out too fast, I guess.
August 8 is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Into Your Neighbor’s Porch Day
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-sneak-some-zucchini-into-your-neighbors-porch-day-august-8/
Jealous. We wanted a meat slicer too for home raised meat, but never got one. Used to hunt deer too, and couldn’t used one then too. I dont mind cleaning if it’s a bigger job and prepping for freezer, but hate cleaning comp,icated items when it’s just for a meal. We’ve had a bunch of things that were spoked to,make life easier, but never used because they were a pain to clean lol.
Thanks. I will take a look at the flowers.
I agree that small zucchini tastes better. The oversized ones can still be used, though. I have shredded them for zucchini bread. Yum!
Love zucchini bread. My neighbor brings some over every now and agsin- such a treat.
We’re power washing and staining our deck this summer, too! About 1/2 done with the washing, but Beau took the power washer to the cabin this week for some projects there.
I think if you can get that material out of there, maybe freshen the soil with bagged dirt and/or compost, you should be OK.
But, if you feel better growing flowers there, that’s fine too. Flowers Are Food for the Soul! :)
Love them both!
We had thunderstorms the evening of the 4th of July, so they cancelled the usual fireworks we always go to. The storms were REALLY bad south of us, so Beau and I sat on the front porch and watched those ‘fireworks’ for a good 45 minutes as they kept moving south. If they were as loud and frequent as they were from a 10-mile distance, they must’ve REALLY been something up close and personal!
Blossom End Rot is a nutritional issue, not a disease. It effects tomatoes, peppers, zukes and cukes. And it’s worse in a wet growing season as even MORE nutrition is washed away with a lot of rain.
Next season (or if you still have time in your growing zone) put a 1/2 cup or so of powdered bone meal and crushed up eggshells in your zucchini planting holes for started plants; if growing from seed, top dress as soon as the plants are established with two sets of adult leaves.
Once they are producing, I either give them a top dressing of the bone meal and water it in, or if you can find a liquid bone meal that you mix with water, that works great, too.
You’ll have no more Blossom End Rot on anything! :)
August 8th is duly noted! :)
Also - they make products called ‘Rot Stop’ and other cute names, but it’s much cheaper & effective to use the bone meal for Blossom End Rot. You’re just paying more for a cute product name. ;)
This is the Year of No Squash for us. The zucchini and yellow squash plants have been struggling all along, even though we rigged a shade-cloth canopy over them this year. We’re in southern Arizona, and temps have been consistently over 100 for at least a month, currently running around 108 the last few days. When a squash does get started, it wilts when it’s still tiny.
It just seems wrong to buy zucchini in the store during summer.
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