What did you do in the garden today?

[OnlySympathy]

Seeing more and more plants starting to produce. So far I've harvested zucchini, purple bush beans, and cucumbers. Will be starting to set aside the cucumbers for making sun pickles with the dill hopefully before it goes to seed. I've got to say, this is the best pickle patch I've grown in a long while, most the time the separate mounds of 2-4 plants stay small and never intermingle.
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2 of my long awaited new plants are finally about to produce.
Suyu Long cucumber is already impressive after only being pollinated for a day or 2.
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A scalloped yellow summer squash I don't remember the name of is doing weird things though. Here's a baby female flower a couple days away from blooming. Clearly a scalloped squash in the making.
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Then there's this weird male bloom that flowered and instead of withering away it has grown into some sort of mutant! Don't the white things in the center look like little seeds and doesn't the end look like the bit where pollen typically is? I've noticed a lot of the male blooms seem more bulbous at the base than the usual summer squash but thought nothing of it seeing as it's a new variety for me. There was another bloom on another plant like this that withered up at about nickel size but this one keeps going. I plan to keep an eye on this and grab a few male blooms to dissect and see if there are some weird hermaphrodite blooms.
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That flower is crazy!!! Please keep us updated on what ends up happening, it’s super interesting

 

[Smokerbill]

Seeing more and more plants starting to produce. So far I've harvested zucchini, purple bush beans, and cucumbers. Will be starting to set aside the cucumbers for making sun pickles with the dill hopefully before it goes to seed. I've got to say, this is the best pickle patch I've grown in a long while, most the time the separate mounds of 2-4 plants stay small and never intermingle.
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2 of my long awaited new plants are finally about to produce.
Suyu Long cucumber is already impressive after only being pollinated for a day or 2.
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A scalloped yellow summer squash I don't remember the name of is doing weird things though. Here's a baby female flower a couple days away from blooming. Clearly a scalloped squash in the making.
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Then there's this weird male bloom that flowered and instead of withering away it has grown into some sort of mutant! Don't the white things in the center look like little seeds and doesn't the end look like the bit where pollen typically is? I've noticed a lot of the male blooms seem more bulbous at the base than the usual summer squash but thought nothing of it seeing as it's a new variety for me. There was another bloom on another plant like this that withered up at about nickel size but this one keeps going. I plan to keep an eye on this and grab a few male blooms to dissect and see if there are some weird hermaphrodite blooms.
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I'd be cooking those weird male bulb things up in some stir fry. The look like they'd be tasty.

 

[Smokerbill]

I let my teenager New Hampshire pullets out to forage and explore for the first time. They already know how to eat fresh grass. LOL

 

[chickengr]

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get well soon.

 

[chickengr]

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what variety are those yellow tomatoes?

 

[chickengr]

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last year mine were like that just smaller, lol.

 

[DemeterAD9]

That flower is crazy!!! Please keep us updated on what ends up happening, it’s super interesting

Oh you know I'll post more if anything else happens! Ya'll are the only people who will appreciate this oddity.

I'd be cooking those weird male bulb things up in some stir fry. The look like they'd be tasty.

If more keep popping up I likely will give them a taste. I did a scary google search on hermaphroditic squash blossoms and going to google images was a mistake. I did find someone else with a freaky zucchini that developed in a similar way and some garden nerds who explained why it may be happening. Short answer is stress which is odd considering I haven't done anything different. Must be a more sensitive variety

 

[Rick589]

yesterday picked another 2 pounds of blueberries and some more cukes, made another two gallons of cucumber/lime drink, and canned 6 quarts of sauerkraut (thus ending the cabbages month and a half journey). The growth of our two new peeps is in a word astounding. Need to clean my sprayer bottle nozzles, prep for fall peas, maybe start pulling the beans up, and……………….weed.

 

[Rick589]

Seeing more and more plants starting to produce. So far I've harvested zucchini, purple bush beans, and cucumbers. Will be starting to set aside the cucumbers for making sun pickles with the dill hopefully before it goes to seed. I've got to say, this is the best pickle patch I've grown in a long while, most the time the separate mounds of 2-4 plants stay small and never intermingle.
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2 of my long awaited new plants are finally about to produce.
Suyu Long cucumber is already impressive after only being pollinated for a day or 2.
View attachment 4180563

A scalloped yellow summer squash I don't remember the name of is doing weird things though. Here's a baby female flower a couple days away from blooming. Clearly a scalloped squash in the making.
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Then there's this weird male bloom that flowered and instead of withering away it has grown into some sort of mutant! Don't the white things in the center look like little seeds and doesn't the end look like the bit where pollen typically is? I've noticed a lot of the male blooms seem more bulbous at the base than the usual summer squash but thought nothing of it seeing as it's a new variety for me. There was another bloom on another plant like this that withered up at about nickel size but this one keeps going. I plan to keep an eye on this and grab a few male blooms to dissect and see if there are some weird hermaphrodite blooms.
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If that flower starts walking you may want to take some form of evasive action.

 

[Paz]

Anime?

Not even that… Tuesday is my “I am mentally ill day”. I do acupuncture therapy, psychotherapy, meet my social worker and eat outside.