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Canned with pineapple juice mmmm. that's a new idea! Send me a sample..:D I have never seen seeds for them for sale around here, so I thought perhaps they were a hot climate squash..I'll have to see if I can order some and give them a shot next year. Because of their small size, I bet they...

This year I noticed this type of grass growing in the garden, and early in the season I was keeping up with hand pulling it. I didn't know what it was until I did a image search this morning..turns out it's crabgrass..:rolleyes: I don't know where it came from in the first place, perhaps bird...

I was at a birhday party dinner last evening where some Pattypan squash were served in a mixture of other veggies. Least I think they were Pattypan...is there others that look similar? I wondered about the growing conditions required for them. Anybody have some in their garden they can tell me...

Pharmerphil, all of my plants are in containers, except for the few volunteers in the garden. How would you spade container plants, simply stick a small spade down around the soil at the base of the stalk in a few places? I will leave that job until I really start getting desperate. :) I...

The End is Near..:lol: Serve them right for trying my patience.. Thanks for the suggestions. As we are not likely to get a frost for several more weeks, I'll back off on the water, and see what happens. My Wife who is a Master Gardener, suggested cutting most of all the leaf branches off, and...

Turning off the water..hmm you might have something there Steve! The plants are all either in my greenhouse, or under the eves of my garden sheds, so they don't get any water naturally, and I have continued to water them. I do notice that since the on set of the cooler weather they don't need...

Strawberry's do get diseased, and are probably even more susceptible when having had a tough winter to deal with. There are some disease reisitant varietys out there, so perhaps check for that on your new plants. A loose layer of straw can help protect them over a harsh winter, so keep that in...

X2 that guess. They sure look great!

The owner previous to me must have planted cover crops of red clover, and fall rye, as it is always spring up each year. I gather he didn't till it in time, so it left seeds. Just about the time my garden is in full swing, and I can't start turning it over, all this clover and rye start growing...

Starting to warm up..now? Where are you, in Australia? Although they are called snow peas, I plant mine in the spring, when it's just starting to warm up, usually late March, early April. Cold hasn't been a factor for me, it's if it get to hot that issues begin. I could try planting a late...

As I mentioned on another thread, immature squash, although not as colorful as the mature squash, still tasted great.:) Rotting in the wetter weather is my concern. If they are sitting up on hay, or mulch the chances are a lot less. That powdery mildew can affect the stem of the fruit, so your...

What is quinoa? Is that a rice or a grain used for thickening? I love getting new recipes for squash.:) It looks like I will be eating lots of it this year..:lol: I like the idea of adding cumin, or curry as was suggested in the soup recipe of Anne's. I bet that adds a twist to it.. Bill

:) actually Steve, the S in bills, is just the first letter of my last name, so just Bill is fine. I should have been more imaginative I suppose, in choosing a screen name..:) A few of the squash I harvested were immature. As powdery mildew had hit the plants from our cooler nights and heavy...

My plants are loaded with fruit, but I have only had a handful of ripe fruit off of them so far. starting to get me worried, as the night air is pretty cool, and we are getting many overcast days. Other years, I would normally be picking a bowl full every day for the last two weeks. Odd that...

I have one of the square black plastic compost bins. You can open a door at the bottom of it and empty it as you continue to fill it from the top. It sits on the ground which I think is important..you don't want a bottom on them. I think layering the brown/green adding's is really important to...

A few links for those harvesting winter squash.:) http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-24-c.html http://www.foodreference.com/html/artwintersquash.html http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/story.php?S_No=699&storyType=garde http://www.gov.pe.ca/af/agweb/index.php3?number=70480 I have...

Immature dill seed added to a half and half mixture of apple cider vinegar and regular vinegar turns out pretty good. Let sit for a few weeks. Adds an interesting flavor twist to the usual oil and vinegar salad dressing.

I found that the few squash volunteers that sprang up in the garden this year, were poor producers of fruit. Lots and lots of vine growth. Some vines I trace along their 20 foot length and didn't even find a single fruit.:( Others I did get fruit from, were true to their parent, which was...

I found the same problem with my corn stalks. They just didn't rot down good. I solved that issue with my small branch chipper machine. Run all and any dried stalks through it and Voila, you have some nice compostable material as a resilt. I mention dry stalks, as the green ones tended to...

At least that many cups, I suspect even more...