Gardening gurus!! I need your help!!

[Katy]

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I don't know why I never go to TEG......I'm a big gardener.

 

[eggJOHNYOGA]

Bees have an effective forraging range of three miles from the hive, so unless you have a very big garden seperating the squash far enough apart so that they are worked by different groups of bees is likely to be a problem!

 

[Reinbeau]

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Only if you're going to save seed. It won't cause the current season's harvest to be wrong. Squashes will still form on squash plants, pumpkins on pumpkins, cukes on cukes. Next season, if you save the seeds, you may get a squapumpcuke

 

[Wifezilla]

The only problem with a squapumpcuke is deciding whether to pickle it, stir fry it, or bake it in to a pie!

 

[Reinbeau]

 

[HennysMom]

Oh man, I can so relate! It took us about 2 weeks to plan out how to do companion planting for our garden last year

but we finally got it right and it worked out beautifully. I'd recommend doing a sketch up of your garden area, then putting what goes with what best (do a drawing) before actually planting. You'll find that you'll change it many times over I'm afraid - because you cant put those strawberries next to the onions LOL!

ugh...

Speaking of "monster squmpkins" when we pulled our squash, pumpkins, and watermelons out we threw them into the compost pile - wellll..lo' and behold they sprouted, but joined together. You ever see a gourd that is all different colors (yellow, orange and green striped and bumpy?) YEP - we got THOSE come Halloween time because the watermelons, summer squash and pumpkins joined somehow and created some freak fruit thing.

Was cool looking and we put it out on display for Fall decorations on our porch.

Companion planting is the best way to go if you have a small area but it does take alot of time to plan it out... but well worth it!

 

[briana1975]

We have gardened for awile and have never had a problem with cross pollination. We do have 2 very large gardens and we plant everything far enough apart that even when it is full grown we can still rotatill. We find with all the extra space everything has more room to "breath" and we get more veggies out of our plants than my father in law who grows so many things in his garden that once it is grown you can't even walk through.

 

[Wifezilla]

My planting areas are scattered all over. That is the problem and beauty of a small suburban lot. It does force creativity, but there are some cool weather plants I am thinking of starting already because I have a narrow planting bed right next to the foundation. I already have some perennials coming up in part of that bed.

I also got some logs from a neighbor and made a planting bed in the strip between my yard and hers.

I may just go crazy and dig up a section of the front yard and turn it to garden. Less for my husband to mow, so he had no objections

 

[shelleyd2008]

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That's how my dad had 'ours' last year. 2 rows of beans took up the most of it. What would 2 adults and 1 child need with 2 rows of beans??? They basically just went to waste. I told him I wouldn't bother with those, I hate messing with things in that big of a quantity. He never went out to do it, so they were junk.

 

[vfem]

I did find the best companions together (Its called the 3 ladies) is planting Pole Beans, Corn and Squash in the same area. I'm not doing squash this year, but I am planting my pole beans mingled along my corn stocks. Then my onions are going with my cukes, and I'm going to mingle in some radishes. Apparently, the radish wards off some kind of pest that goes after cukes.