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The ones typically marketed are green house grown. They can also be grown in high tunnels. This prevents pollinating insects from getting to them. If grown in the open, they will probably be pollinated by insects just like a regular cucumber. Some folks resort to hand pollinating cucumbers, but usually there are enogh pollinating insects around to do the job when the plant is in the open.

Is it safe to eat the one that grew?
Well since you say it "tastes good" you have already eaten at least some of it so what is the point of posting your question about safety after already eating it?
Why would a pepper plant ever produce only one pepper is the more important question. The answer to that is the poor growing conditions the gardener provided.
Dave
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But it is rude and disrespectful to the reader to not even make a minimal effort.


Many beans will be dry inside if they start to grow and then the soil gets dry or/and the weather gets hot. It is not because of the variety you are growing, although some varieties take heat better than others. Rattlesnake is one variety that does okay with higher temps if soil moisture is adequate.
If it gets hot before bean pods begin to grow the flowers will drop and no pods will form. No dry insides, but no beans at all til things cool down some.

Also, you need to plant corn in "blocks" so they pollinate each other. The smallest I've done is about a 4x8'. What I don't like is that all the corn gets ripe at once and there are only the 2 of us! I have read some stuff about freezing corn on the Harvest forum.
I prefer stealing corn from my neighbor! ;) Nancy

Arti, here are some pictures of what garden sweet corn is supposed to look like, just for your future reference.


Re: cyrus_gardener 8' s comment
When you mentioned the 1"x1" plastic mesh being "both DEAR and rabbit proof . ." Does that mean it will keep your wife out too? . . . OR IN? . . . hmmmmmmm
And the BEST way I found to keep ANYTHING (including my dogs) IN or OUT, is to get chicken wire about 2' tall, and fold it lengthwise right along the center horizontal wire, and put it at the bottom of your regular fence (I have chain link), with half going up against the existing fence, and the lower half flat on the ground. I dug down about 3" all along my fence, and had the lower half of the chicken wire on the ground, and then filled in the dirt upon the chicken wire, after one or two tries my Lab gave up and has NEVER again tried to dig her way out, so I know nothing can get IN!
Susan in TX


Was a pod harvested from the joint where that leaf's stem grows from the plant? If so, that leaf has served it's purpose and will wither and die. If a pod was not harvested from that leaf stem/branch junction then I agree with Dave that it looks like Early Blight.


If you spray the top of the soil with a diluted hydrogen peroxide mixture it should kill the existing mold. It might eventually come back but not in 2 days. I get the mold sometimes on my seedling starts under lights in my basement after 2 few weeks. Nothing to worry about though.


Wouldn't worry about it, it could be numerous things, but heirloom tomatoes, everything needs to be perfect, from what I hear.....I'm growing hybrids, celebrity and big beef and a husky cherry variety and some of mine look like yours upon picking and are just fine, but mine are uniformly ripe, not half red, half green so now I'm confused

Sorry there are lots of different clovers so I should have been more specific using plain old annual white clover rather than assuming everyone knows the differences between which are winter killed and which are not. But winter kill is the important aspect.
Dave

I did annual rye grass in a 4 x 12 raised bed last year. Planted in the fall. Mowed in the early spring. Then broke up and turned as well as possible into the soil with a hoe. Then allowed it to sit for 2 weeks, hoed it again and planted potatoes. It seemed to work okay for me and did not resprout during the summer. I will watch carefully to make sure it does not resprout this fall. It shouldn't because there were no seed heads.
In another 4 x 12 raised bed, I grew winter peas. They grew so thick and lush I had to knock them down with a weed wacker. I raked 3/4 of the foliage up and put the cuttings in my compost pile. Then I turned what was left on the ground into the soil with a hoe.

I like Gold Nugget, Carnival Acorn, Delicata... I usually don't have problems with storage on Delicata, they last till around Christmas or so and usually get eaten up so fast I don't have storage problems. In the slightly larger, I like Futzu Black and Long Island Cheese squashes.






dan, that was useful, thanks.
Personally, chimayo is my favorite. Here in New Mexico, at this time of the year the chile is labeled as hot, medium, or mild. You can buy it a 20 lb sack or larger. Most places, roasting is free (and the smell of chile roasting is indicative of fall). Even Wal-Mart roasts chile in my town. I would say that heat is like a jalapeno in that you do not always know what you are going to get. Some jalapenos have no heat when you buy them and that often depends on weather conditions. Here it is recommended that you sample the chile before buying the bag because once roasted, there are no refunds (somehow I have not been able to do that, but I a not a fire eater so I am not likely to complain that the chile is not hot enough). For those who are inclined, it is a good idea to ask if the chile is at least grown in the U.S. as with many other crops, cheaper chile is brought in from Mexico and it is an important industry. Happy eating.