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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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I always grow some summer squash and a winter squash or two. But with this small urban property I also buy squash because we like it...(more variety than we have space to grow.)
Whole foods is trying to sell summer squash and will give a bit of cash to Xerces if you want to buy your squash from them. https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/The-Xerces-Society/193182577358618?hc_location=stream Quote:
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Fox
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Northcentral rural Arkansas, usa
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We like squash too, here is a pix of some flowers on the squash.
~~Sigh~~ but some grass hoppers, stink bugs, and a big grey caterpillar have been working over-time on my plants, oh yeah and some 'unknown' critter I couldn't catch as he moves under the cover of the dirt. I hope we get some squash this year. ![]() ww
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Looks like you have plenty flowers forming. Hope you get plenty of squash.
A book by Sally Jean Cummingham "Great Garden Companions" talks about companions as creating a diverse community more like outside our gardens. So a few flowers to draw beneficial insects and ground covers to protect the soil. She suggests radishes which will be removed before the squash get big, thyme, marigolds, basil and nasturtiums. I have tried some of her ideas and like the results. Fits well with our gardening philosophy. |
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Fox
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Northcentral rural Arkansas, usa
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Hey I've got some radishes growing I can stick in there! I'll try that today. (I've got em growing amongst the snap peas just now, but lots to spare) I have some dill growing, I could try there also. I guess I could buy some Thyme, Basil, & Marigold seeds for today, I'll try that too.
Thanks for the tip! ww
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biodiversity, foods, squash, summer |
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