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Yes, get them started and keep well watered.

Got them from Kube Pak. Ison's sells them too.
For Kube Pak I made up the name of a nursery and filed a form as a nursery.

Hmmmmmmm. Lori, You may have helped me with a dilemma I've had! DH bought me a pretty cheapo tumbler. It's almost impossible to get the stuff out without spilling it all over the place.
If I just place it over a fallow bed and dump it every once in awhile I'll have the best of both worlds!!!!!!! Thanks! Nancy

I've been using a 'chicken coop composter'. The chickens live over the compost and scratch and shred it, and eat the kitchen scraps. It takes up relatively little room. I posted videos on youtube on how to make it. Just search my user name, chickencoopcomposter, on youtube.

Here is a link that might be useful: youtube

Growing up on the farm, raccoons in the corn was a real problem. I remember my parents trying just about everything. The thing that finally worked was the least expensive of all.

My teenage brother had horrendously smelly feet. Mom would make him do a few barefoot laps around the corn patch very couple of days.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but it worked.

That boy must have sooommee stinky feet.

Slimy- about as sure as I can be without a camera monitoring it! But really it is that they do not ripen when brought inside after collecting fallen fruit.

I thought the premise was that the fruit only fall off the plant when ripe or very near ripe- the husk is yellow to brown and papery dry. So when you scoop them off the ground you bring them in and let them sit a couple of days or so then open your husks to hopefully find ripe fruit. What I have been finding is distinctly greenish fruit in a brown husk and those fruit stay green for so long (weeks, months) I eventually toss them. There are usually a few that are actually ripe.

Lily, thanks for the commiseration! If I ever figure it out, I'll pass along the info!

Just came home from our 4-H daycare garden. The Ground Cherries (Aunt Molly) are ripe this year and a big hit with the kids. I have heard that they are poisonous until they fall off the plant. I warned the kids that they need to carefully pull up the leaves to find the ripe ones on the ground. This is an unusually warm sunny summer here in PNW so there should be a lot of GC until fall. I tasted some and very sweet - almost like a cherry. The fruit was almost the size and color of sungold tomato.

watermelon, possibly a citron

I had random watermelons show up twice in my yard. I think the seeds were in flood irrigation or carried by birds. Mine mad a lot of big melons from about 5 volunteers but they were in shade so never fully ripened.

Gotta be lemon cukes based off of the description you've given me regarding the taste and the shape of the leaves. I've never grown them but I've grown cucumber many times so I know their leaves.

Nice thriving plant you've got.

Ok, great, you're having almost exactly the same weather I have. To get brussels sprouts in the fall I have to buy transplants in august, then feed them a fair bit to get them to size up quickly. Then they will make sprouts in very late fall and through the winter. I also buy broccoli and cabbage transplants, but they will give me a harvest in the actual autumn months. I would start my own seeds, but I always lose track of them in the hurry to do everything else and they inevitably end up crisped. Cheers and good luck!

If you don't mind hand picking - the little buggers will tend to come up to the top if you go along with a hose and water with one of those nice drenching shower head type of wands. You can spray down into the crown of the plant and under the leaves some. Apparently they breathe thru their skin and so are coming up for air. I have been picking them off the prize-choi which they seem to truly love and have the upper hand on them for now. As you have the water wand in your hand you can also rinse their yellow guts off your fingers after dispatching them.

I put my winter squash, Taybelle acorn and Hi Jinx pumpkin in on June 11th. My garlic harvest was about a month early for all varieties and I have already harvested the pumpkin and am waiting for the acorns as they took longer to put out female flowers and set fruit. I did find, however, that both the acorn and the pumpkin dropped polinated and un-developed female flowers when they had set as many fruit as they could carry. For the pumpkins that was three per vine, one of the acorns has three good sized ones and the others have 4 or 5 each which I expect won't be overly large. Some are very dark green with hard skin and others are still a lighter green and soft. I did break off two of the acorns accidentally and am glad that I can go ahead and eat them. One of the summer squashes I planted, Heirloom Yellow straight neck, did not taste good if harvested too early.

Thanks for all the good information.

I am anxious to get the squash harvested so I can begin to prepare the soil for the main event, garlic.

The ones I harvested tasted great... not really sweet, but I don't think bush acorn squash is supposed to be sweet. Very flavorful and not stringy. And they did make more.. but all my plants had SVB so they are small and not fully matured :(

I have only 1 neighbor with squash type plants. I don't destroy the surrounding barriers as I live in the country and need barriers against field spraying. Actually, if faithfully done, killing any adults in the fall works pretty good.

I've tried just about all these methods with the exception of planting later, and if I can make myself wait maybe that would help. Our daughter planted a big pumpkin patch in an area that didn't have anything planted before, and there are lots of squash bugs and too many plants to rely on picking the bugs off, unless that's your full-time job. We pick off eggs and squish the bugs or spray them with soap water which works great but only kills the bugs you hit with it. As the plants started dying off I got frustrated to the point of using chemicals a couple times, using a long sprayer arm to target just the vines those bugs love to eat while trying to avoid getting any on the flowers to avoid harming bees but I doubt that's completely possible.

Looks like weeds to me except the one dave mentioned

I'm not positive of what either one of them are on both of your posts but may I suggest that next time you drop the seedlings in a line or a row that way it's easier to identify what is what.