What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

Question, has anyone ever used a male zucchini flower to pollinate yellow squash? I had no male yellow squash flowers and 3 females open & ready to go. I figured I had nothing to lose. Worse case, it'd do nothing or give me some kind of hybrid fruit.

I might be wrong, but I think that you'd still get a yellow squash, and the seeds of that yellow squash would produce some mixed hybrid. When zuke and yellow squash are planted side by side in a garden I'm sure there's some cross pollination going on, and I've never seen a squash that wasn't typical to the plant it was on.

And it might not even successfully pollinate. But try it, sounds like an interesting experiment. I think James Prigioni of the Garden Channel (youtube) uses a Q-tip to transfer the pollen.

I have different 6 tomato varieties planted together in a 5'x7' bed. I might save some seeds to plant next year and see what kind of weirdness happens. LOL

 

[Smokerbill]

There was no Zucchini to be had this spring.
I only have yellow crookneck this year.

You couldn't find zucchini seeds?

 

[Smokerbill]

Our zucchini is bonkers this year! I've been harvesting daily but somehow I keep missing some because they're massive when I find them the next day, lol! The freeze dryer is full from yesterday's harvest and the counter is full from today's harvest!

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I love summer squash. Harvesting squash every day is a real ego booster, at first anyway. Then it starts to get tedious. LOL

 

[pennyJo1960]

The seeds we planted started but died at like a month.

 

[jerryse]

Question, has anyone ever used a male zucchini flower to pollinate yellow squash? I had no male yellow squash flowers and 3 females open & ready to go. I figured I had nothing to lose. Worse case, it'd do nothing or give me some kind of hybrid fruit.

They are both in the C. Pepo group so yes it works. The change is in the seeds.

 

[jerryse]

I watered the seeds and I have Dickinson pumpkin up. Some of my newly planted raspberries are breaking bud.

 

[WthrLady]

Mowed for 4.5 hours today. I skipped last week and had to double mow much of it. Watered the orchard for 3 hours and the garden drips were on for 30 minutes. Right now it's only watering the pollinator garden and some tree seedlings. Once all those are hard established, and the tomatoes planted, I'll turn on the other heads. My horseradish is going insane!

All the new house lights have finally been installed. I exchanged the ones that didn't fit and managed to get up 4 lamps in just under 1.5 hours. The way it should be. LOL.

Planted a new burr oak tree to replace the red maple that has done nothing for 7 years, and this year only has 4 leaves on it. So out that will come when I get the tractor out next. It is sending up emergency shoots near the ground, so I may plant it along the fence line, where it can try again, if a cow doesn't eat it.

 

[Sueby]

Question, has anyone ever used a male zucchini flower to pollinate yellow squash? I had no male yellow squash flowers and 3 females open & ready to go. I figured I had nothing to lose. Worse case, it'd do nothing or give me some kind of hybrid fruit.

I might be wrong, but I think that you'd still get a yellow squash, and the seeds of that yellow squash would produce some mixed hybrid.

I do it all the time, it works no problem. & Smokerbill is correct, it would be the seeds of them that would be a cross. I don't bother saving seeds for squashes so it doesn't matter to me. But it might be something yummy & intersting!

 

[Sueby]

I got everything watered really well & covered with either sheets or sour cream containers with little rocks on them because it's windy. Collecting rocks & placing them with my stupid grabber was redic. I'm so over this no bending crap. So here's hoping everything survives!

@karenerwin I hope you're doing ok. You have been on my mind all day.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I love summer squash. Harvesting squash every day is a real ego booster, at first anyway. Then it starts to get tedious. LOL

Lol!!! My ego never gets tired of vegetable harvests.