Organic gardening 2025

[flowerbug]

I want to pull it up because I also still need to find the beginning of the neighbors stinking morning glories and get them abolished. I am going to do a garden next year and I want to go vertical with everything I can. I have so much crabgrass that I would have to spend 12 hours a day in the garden working on weeding. I'm hoping to get the entire area tilled and covered with cardboard. I'm still going to use my raised beds and the hugelkultur method. I'm not going to turn away from organic gardening either but I just want to make next year the best garden ever for me.

morning glory seeds persist for many years after - i just pulled some morning glory plants out of a pathway and a garden that hasn't had any fresh seeds in them for about 10 years. only a few plants, but that is all it takes. what surprises me the most is that the plants can get going even in taller stands of cover crops. i have cosmos, radishes, turnips and the cosmos are 4ft or more tall now and i didn't know there were any morning glory plants in there until they bloomed. the purple stands out very starkly in the cosmos...

 

[akroberts]

Can anyone tell me what type of squash or melon this is. I didn't think about writing down what I planted and I have 2 more in the garden and they are bigger than this one.

 

[digitS']

It looks like ..

. it could be a Crenshaw Melon.

But, spaghetti squash look like that. Strange not to be able to know melon ↔ squash. You should be able to decide by using your nose. Sniff Sniff

Steve

 

[akroberts]

It looks like ..

. it could be a Crenshaw Melon.

But, spaghetti squash look like that. Strange not to be able to know melon ↔ squash. You should be able to decide by using your nose. Sniff Sniff

Steve

It smells exactly like pumpkin

 

[akroberts]

Well I just looked it up and apparently it's a spaghetti squash. It might have the pumpkin smell because it's being grown so close to the pumpkins.

 

[digitS']

They are both Cucurbita pepo.

Scroll about half way down the page to see the common Halloween pumpkin and the spaghetti squash and others!

Cucurbita pepo - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[akroberts]

They are both Cucurbita pepo.

Scroll about half way down the page to see the common Halloween pumpkin and the spaghetti squash and others!

Cucurbita pepo - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I managed to find it and apparently my mom was selling me a whopper on the type of squash it was but it's okay because there's not a squash that I have yet to dislike and yeah I get spaghetti squash dessert tomorrow night

 

[Dahlia]

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Can anyone tell me what type of squash or melon this is. I didn't think about writing down what I planted and I have 2 more in the garden and they are bigger than this one.

It's spaghetti squash for sure! I cook those a lot instead of noodles. Yummy!

 

[flowerbug]

Well I just looked it up and apparently it's a spaghetti squash. It might have the pumpkin smell because it's being grown so close to the pumpkins.

if it were a melon you'd know the difference in the smell even if it were grown surrounded by them. the smell won't soak in or transfer and the melon gives off plenty of its own smell.