I tried to grow some squash last year but they were a colossal FAIL. This year one of the seeds decided to sprout and is growing well. I swear it grew 6" last night. I think it's gonna take over the entire center of my garden bed. Good thing we like squash.
The funny thing about this is the squash I planted last year was a mixed blend of seeds so I have no idea what kind of squash is growing. It's fun to go out in the morning and check out the growth. I'm interested to see what I get.
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LOL, I go out in my garden in the morning and am amazed at the growth from the night before. I don't know, maybe these plants soak up the sun and water during the day, then grow at night. P.S I also have a son who seems to grow taht way to.jmoore wrote:I tried to grow some squash last year but they were a colossal FAIL. This year one of the seeds decided to sprout and is growing well. I swear it grew 6" last night. I think it's gonna take over the entire center of my garden bed. Good thing we like squash.
The funny thing about this is the squash I planted last year was a mixed blend of seeds so I have no idea what kind of squash is growing. It's fun to go out in the morning and check out the growth. I'm interested to see what I get.
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Well, I highly doubt that you have a plant from a seed that was literally sown last year. What you have on your hands is probably a plant that is from the seeds from a rotted fruit of one of last year's plants. It kind of seems like the same thing, but you have to consider pollination issues as well.
Let us know when you find out what it is .
Let us know when you find out what it is .
The plant from last year never produced any fruit. It grew to 6", produced one flower and promptly croaked.garden5 wrote:Well, I highly doubt that you have a plant from a seed that was literally sown last year. What you have on your hands is probably a plant that is from the seeds from a rotted fruit of one of last year's plants. It kind of seems like the same thing, but you have to consider pollination issues as well.
Let us know when you find out what it is .
Whatever it is, it's about to throw about a dozen flowers. It's growing like gangbusters. It's at least 12" longer than last week. Crazy.
The tomatos in the bed next to it, on the other hand
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Nope!
There couldn't have been any cross pollination, because I didn't grow those squashes the year before, I just ATE them (from the local CSA farm). So the seeds were in the compost and sprouted when I planted things with compost.
So then last year I grew out the squashes from the volunteers, so if I get more volunteers this year, IF they cross pollinated each other (as you point out different species and they were in different flower beds) there could be hybrids. But I've gotten better at getting my compost pile to heat up both last year and this year, so I don't seem to be getting volunteer squash and tomatoes popping up from it (so far any way). Too bad ... I liked the volunteers!
There couldn't have been any cross pollination, because I didn't grow those squashes the year before, I just ATE them (from the local CSA farm). So the seeds were in the compost and sprouted when I planted things with compost.
So then last year I grew out the squashes from the volunteers, so if I get more volunteers this year, IF they cross pollinated each other (as you point out different species and they were in different flower beds) there could be hybrids. But I've gotten better at getting my compost pile to heat up both last year and this year, so I don't seem to be getting volunteer squash and tomatoes popping up from it (so far any way). Too bad ... I liked the volunteers!
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