Nice work, enjoy the fruits of your labor! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew
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My personal experience with squash is that it either grows on its own or it doesn’t grow. No amount of work will change the already determined outcome.
Nice work! After the squash vine borers and squash bugs this year, I will never plant non-resistant squash again. I hear the "Long Island Cheese" pumpkin is tasty and resistant, so I will try that next year (along with butternut which did fine this year despite the bugs).
Our biggest issue was the wildlife. We just moved here last year so were still figuring everything out. Turns out we have a huge groundhog population in the woods who were climbing the 2ft chicken wire fence with ease and eating all the leaves they could. I replaced it with 3ft wire and they were still getting over so I took the staples out of the top 1ft of the post so the chicken wire would flop over when they tried to climb and it worked like a charm, but it was already a little too late
What USDA zone are you in?
Jealous I can't get shit to grow
Zone 7, the sweet spot for a lot of stuff.
Damn my 8b
I lived in 8b, there's still plenty of good things you can grow, like figs, currants, and kiwi fruit! I even grew some dwarf citrus that lived in pots indoors over the winter.
Approx 36,000 calories of potatoes alone, nice.
I didn't know Amazon shipped spuds. Neat.
That's awesome! I got 26 kg of peaches from my tree this summer. Had to start harvest earlier because the tree was risking snapping a few branches. The neighbors loved it.
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