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There are always a few odd plants that fizzle out in the end.

There are always a few odd plants that fizzle out in the end.

I've had to hand pollinate summer squash, and it's more difficult once the male flower closes. You can try, but your success rate will probably be higher if you can catch male and female flowers open at the same time. I found this conversation on the Asian Vegetables forum that might be of use.

-Anne

Thanks for link to other thread Anne!

Another Milwaukee gardener. My toms and peppers are are flowering and have plentiful fruit but my plants that are not in raised beds are not pleased! My watermelons are basically in a puddle and my cukes are dead.

Oh... but the weeds are happy. Very, very happy.

Yeah, weeds are loving it. Veggies have mixed opinions.

Raised beds aren't immune. The soil in my carrot bed is completly washed out at one end.

Y'know, well-grown spinach seeds come from big, robust, widely spaced plants that have not been picked from and therefore produce really nice seeds. Saving seeds from randomly bolted spinach plants will not give the same results.

Thanks :). My spinach got big and bolted before I had a chance to pick from most of it. I planted a little too late. So I have big plants that were not picked from that I want to save the seed from. Same happened to my bok choy. I didn't pick any of that. It grew great in the fall but planting in the spring didn't work for me. It flowered and now has pods.

I'll certainly post what it is when I find out. I have other Cucumbers in another part of the property, as well as squash, zucchini and pumpkin.

MYSTERY plant: Probably cantaloupe, squash or melon. Cucumbers have normally sharp tipped leaves. Def not WM.

Well, wash off what you have on there now.

It's not milk AND baking soda--- it's either OR. 1 part milk to 10 parts water.

or

1 TB baking soda and 1 tsp insecticidal soap to a gallon of water

Here's some more info.

Kevin

Here is a link that might be useful: Powdery Mildew

Powdery Mildew.

Milk/water is only good if you've have been spraying regularly before out break.

At this stage I suggest NEEM oil spray.

ed:

Corn that tassels smaller than normal means the growing conditions weren't good enough to grow a big plant. Corn needs lots of water and fertility, mainly nitrogen, to grow well. Small plant equals small ears.

Looked in the whorl and i saw some tassels.

I always leave the tillers.

Thanks for your reply. I think that your right about not making any ears. I have enough to run a trial, I cut some out and leave some to grow to maturity. if your interested I'll let you know the results. By the way, I didn't know that they had an official name, tillers. Never too old to learn.

I cut away the tomato cage. Hopefully the air helps then instead of making worse faster.

I have trouble every year with powdery mildew. This year I even had it on the butternut squash in the greenhouse. I read an article about using milk mixed at a rate of 1 part milk 3 parts water and it was more effective than synthetic fungicides. So I gave it a try. It worked. Three applications. First two three days apart, third one week later. gone. I did loose some leaves but the new leaves look ok. I'm going to do a weekly spray in the garden and see what happens this year. It is rumored to help with fungi on other plants too. Tomato blight, black sooty mildew. There are a lot of articles on the internet The one I read said most effective at 19% milk or higher for the mix and skim milk works as well as whole milk. If I can find the article I will post the url

I am having this problem as well! My plants are very small and only about 2 weeks old. a short stock with two leaves on each plant. Today it got really hot and all the leaves are pointing straight up as if they're closing. What is this about?

Protection.

Too bad about the dam, but I'll guess you're right about its probable fate.

Looks like a wait-til-next-year situation, unfortunately. If the forecasters are to be believed, it'll rain from now on forever.

This post was edited by ltilton on Thu, Jun 27, 13 at 13:47

Well it's been 2 days. At least there isn't any water flowing from that side of the pond now. There are a few puddles in the garden, but it's not under water anymore. The soil is still sopping wet muck of course. Yesterday the tomato plants looked happy. Today a few of them are drooping a little. I hope they pull through.

Because this was creek water, I'm a little worried about the safety of the tomatoes, assuming the plants survive. We're all on septic systems here. I guess I'll throw away any fruits that were under water. I was doing some reading, and it seems like those above the water should be OK, especially if cooked instead of eaten raw.

The pic and the short video attached below are from Wednesday. In the pic, none of the water you see is the pond, that's all supposed to be lawn. The pond is off to the left side.

Here is a link that might be useful: Flooded Garden

I don't think there are various kinds of pollination, good, bad etc.
My guess (just guess) is that the seed had been crossed. So it has traces of two kinds of squash in it. If it is HYBRID, it has not been fully established. I can see that the two squashes on the vine even have different shapes and the one you've picked has yet another shape.

But the bottom line is getting fruit that taste good. I would not care what shape or color it is.

The one with the round end is good.

The other may be incompletely pollinated, but whatever the reason it was starting to rot on the yellow end.