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I'll check my onions this evening and my cuccumber's that I hand pollinated. I will definitely be trying to hand pollinate more. There are a million little cucumber babies out there. I'm sure I'm exaggerating, but not by much. :) I'll take a picture and post when I do.

SQUASH!!!!!

Very overcrowded, growing like mad, green beautiful plants. There may be a nitrogen problem (because I worked in chicken manure over the winter), but the swiss chard and onions in the same bed are growing and growing. There is also a buttercup squash in there. I hand pollinated the one female...

I have tons, TONS of flowers on my cucumbers. I see the little cucumbers with the little flowers on them. I way over planted cucumbers this year (because I love them). I have no cucumbers that are getting bigger. I think they are falling off, un-pollinated. I did try to hand pollinate some...

Garden is coming along nicely. My Panama Jack scarecrow is not deterring the squirrels.

Update, we have a lot of squash and the plants look good.

The only DE I can find is food grade. The vaseline was still there today. It had gotten thicker and clotted with a lot of dirt. I plan on wiping it off and reapplying.

I am proud to announce, I have 6 more yellow squash!!!! The plants are looking great. I plan to reapply DE and vaseline tonight. I will probably be hand pollenating again in the morning. The squash plant (2nd plant from the left first row) has 7 baby squash. The little flowers are there, but not...

Yes, I can easily add bamboo stakes and string them in. There is one little pepper plant that is stunted because of the beans shading him out. I just didn't realize bush beans got thigh high?

Do you think I will need to support those rattlesnake beans? They are supposed to be bush beans, but they are almost thigh high. Now that I think on it, I believe they are dragon tongue beans, not rattlesnake.

Close up of the smaller pathway bed with a Chadwick cherry, marigolds, sweet potato, and a sunflower. Little bit of "hot" wire that is not "hot" is only to deter the dogs and chickens who know what "hot" wire is. It works. The pathway was created by my husband after I broke my leg. This is...

Thought y'all might like to see some of my garden pictures. I haven't been active on here for a long time because last year I broke my leg and was unable to do anything in the garden. I am so excited this year, everything is looking beautiful. Squash bed (straight neck yellow, zucchini black...

I put the Vaseline around the stems at the soil level up to the first leave. I also tossed around some DE on the leaves and soil. I did not put Vaseline around my cucumbers, but I did dust them with DE. This morning I found my first yellow squash, which I hand pollinated. I'm so excited!

Petroleum Jelly, now that may work. I can reapply 2 or 3 times a week on the stem. Might hold them off a while so I can get some squash. I don't mind bugs, but I would like a little squash for myself. I use the diluted dishsoap spray for the squash bugs. Kills 'em dead. First I spray the plant...

I found my first squash vine borer moth last night on my zucchini. This is something I have struggled with for the past 5 years gardening. I plan on wiping the stems every night before I retire for the evening. I have 8 squash plants (yellow, zucchini, and buttercup). Would you recommend...

I still have no eggs. Mine were ordered from McMurry's and delivered on March 14th. I have 2 red stars, 2 black stars, and 1 EE. They look good, good enough to eat (insert creepy laugh). BUT I split an order with some co-workers. They got gold laced wyndottes, turkens, speckled sussex...

Same problem here, my peppers are not hot this year. Neighbors have the same problem.

I've noticed the molting too, but of my older hens. My newbies are still not laying. It's been 24 weeks, I can't hold out hope for them much longer. 24 weeks for a sex-link is pushing it. I wonder if the stress of the heat this summer has thrown all their internal clocks off? Mine are looking...

I had to thin my flock this year, so I ordered spring chicks in March. They are the black and red sex-links and I have never had an egg from them. Me and a few co-workers went into together and they are complaining with the same problem. I guess it's weather related, I'm giving mine a few more...