Dennis1979
Leafing Out
I have found on a few recent issues with my garden that if I just wait a while the answer will come so I have been holding off asking questions here. However, I have a couple now that are perplexing me.
This spring/summer garden is not my first garden but my first one in many years and my first serious effort. Previous efforts were to grow some tomatoes now and then etc. My Mom also had a garden when I was a kid so I learned some stuff from that.
Anyway, here are my questions;
First question - I have a bed of yellow squash and a bed of zucchini squash side by side. Both varieties are growing well. The plants are full and green and very healthy. The zucchini was noticeably behind the yellow squash in their growth even though I planted them at the same time. The yellow began to flower a few weeks ago and started bearing fruit shortly thereafter. I have begun to harvest the yellow this week. (I have a bag full of them in the fridge that will get eaten this weekend along with some fresh beans). The zucchini only started to flower a little last week and a lot this week but so far I see no signs of squash, but, having never grown zucchini before, Im not sure what to look for.
With the yellow squash, the difference between male and female flowers is obvious but Im not seeing that at all on the zucchini. Should I? In other words the zucchini all look like male flowers. I would find that hard to believe though because there is probably 30 or 40 plants and they cant all produce male flowers. Also, I dont think pollination is a problem as the yellow is getting pollinated fine. I did pollinate some of the yellow myself but it was only a fraction of what the bees, or whatever, did.
Second question has to do with my cucumbers (straight eight). You can literally watch the cukes grow right now. They are growing that fast. Theyre growing like 8 inches or more per day up the trellis. Its crazy. Once again they have a lot of flowers but nothing that looks like little cukes. Is it because they are spending so much energy growing right now? Do I just need to be patient? Why so many flowers if its not time to make cukes?
Dennis
This spring/summer garden is not my first garden but my first one in many years and my first serious effort. Previous efforts were to grow some tomatoes now and then etc. My Mom also had a garden when I was a kid so I learned some stuff from that.
Anyway, here are my questions;
First question - I have a bed of yellow squash and a bed of zucchini squash side by side. Both varieties are growing well. The plants are full and green and very healthy. The zucchini was noticeably behind the yellow squash in their growth even though I planted them at the same time. The yellow began to flower a few weeks ago and started bearing fruit shortly thereafter. I have begun to harvest the yellow this week. (I have a bag full of them in the fridge that will get eaten this weekend along with some fresh beans). The zucchini only started to flower a little last week and a lot this week but so far I see no signs of squash, but, having never grown zucchini before, Im not sure what to look for.
With the yellow squash, the difference between male and female flowers is obvious but Im not seeing that at all on the zucchini. Should I? In other words the zucchini all look like male flowers. I would find that hard to believe though because there is probably 30 or 40 plants and they cant all produce male flowers. Also, I dont think pollination is a problem as the yellow is getting pollinated fine. I did pollinate some of the yellow myself but it was only a fraction of what the bees, or whatever, did.
Second question has to do with my cucumbers (straight eight). You can literally watch the cukes grow right now. They are growing that fast. Theyre growing like 8 inches or more per day up the trellis. Its crazy. Once again they have a lot of flowers but nothing that looks like little cukes. Is it because they are spending so much energy growing right now? Do I just need to be patient? Why so many flowers if its not time to make cukes?
Dennis
