What did you do in the garden today?

Can a spaghetti squash pollinate a yellow squash?
I think so. In a pinch, if I need a male flower, all squash blooms are game. Yesterday, I ran over to my neighbor's pumpkin patch (with his prior permission) to grab a couple o blooms to try to hand pollinate my butternut and yellow squash. Not sure if that worked. But in the past, I have successfully used different squash to pollinate each other when only one produced a male bloom and everything else had female blooms.
 
Thanks @Acre4Me - that was my thought too.

Of course, there will be a time when there are a million male blooms, and we are searching for the female blooms. At that point, fry up some male blooms! My neighbor grows pumpkins only for the blooms. His wife breads and fries them up and they freeze them for later enjoyment. FWIW, I tried this last year and preferred a batter over breading. Of course, remove the middle stamen, rinse, pat dry before breading or batter.
 
Of course, there will be a time when there are a million male blooms, and we are searching for the female blooms. At that point, fry up some male blooms! My neighbor grows pumpkins only for the blooms. His wife breads and fries them up and they freeze them for later enjoyment. FWIW, I tried this last year and preferred a batter over breading. Of course, remove the middle stamen, rinse, pat dry before breading or batter.
I've never heard of this..... I'm intrigued!
 
@gtaus, let us know what you do with those planters, and how it works. I'm really curious about planting something like peas or beans in something like that.

I have a few errands to run in town today, but hope to throw in some top soil mixed with chicken run compost in those planters later today. Trying to decide if I want to turn the planters into hügelkultur pots, putting a few inches of wood chips or unsifted, woody, compost in the bottom of the planters and drill a drainage hole an inch or so up the side of the planter. Leaning towards that idea because knocking out the drain holes on the bottom of the planter just lets the water run through so fast and dry out the soil.

I'll follow up on the success or failure of the experiment. All my gardening books say that the peas and pole beans grow "up" a trellis, so I am not too sure if they will equally as well grow dangling down from the top of the deck. But I figure I have noting to lose as I will be using leftover seed packets and my newly found planters in the shed. So no new money invested in the project and I just might learn a valuable lesson.
 
Walked in the shop and drank a beer. This has been the wettest I think I can ever remember in all my 41 years.

:lau I heard it was pretty dry in the days of prohibition, but I did not think one beer would be a record breaker. Reminds me of high school class parties where someone sneaks in a 6-pack and everyone swears they got drunk.
 
I've never heard of this..... I'm intrigued!
Squash/pumpkin blossoms are edible. My neighbor really likes them. Last year they told me how to make them, but I was out of one ingredient (can’t remember which one) in their recipe, so I looked up recipes and found one that used a batter vs using dry breading. But, pick fresh blossoms (go out in the morning). Remove middle stamen (part with pollen). If not preparing until dinner, place in a container with a damp paper towel or Damp cloth. When ready, follow whichever recipe you choose to pan fry. They cook quickly. They are lightly flavored, a but sweet. My spouse was “Meh, it ok” , my kid refused to try, but I liked them. I tried the recipe neighbor uses -a dry breading, but preferred the batter method. Sorry don’t have a particular recipe, as I looked one up last year. I’ll see if neighbor can text me their recipe.
 
Weeding the blueberries was not on my list. So when I came in, I wrote it on the list and then crossed it off. :lau
I do that too!
Remember the "mulberry" tree I found in my back yard? Well....it has ZERO berries on it now so I am not sure it is a mulberry.
There are fruitless (male) mulberry trees.
Wondering if you (or anyone) has ever used ACV instead of Roundup and what the results were?
5% isn't strong enough. Some nurseries sell 20% vinegar as weedkiller, but it is expensive.
Years ago, DH and I had a booth at Canton First Monday. We made candles and I did crafts. We had a blast. Only down side was the other sellers. After the first weekend, I noticed a lot of other sellers suddenly had a lot of my crafts in their booths. Really cut down on our profit. Eventually, we quit selling. Often thought I could do online sales when I get time and energy.
I live nowhere near Texas but want to take a road trip to Canton First Monday some time, since I love swap meets and have been to most of the good ones in California.
 

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