Comments on: Too many dudes

By: Death by a billion spores | Eat The Yard

Death by a billion spores | Eat The Yard — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:33:58 +0000

[...] I wrote a few weeks ago about the preponderance of male flowers in my winter squash as the culprit behind the failure my cucurbits to fruit, I had also spent some [...]

By: Sylvana

Sylvana — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:25:12 +0000

There have been weirder happenings in the garden than a little “dude assistance” I’m sure. That must be what happened to my squash – that and the long period of no rain could have contributed. I only have two butternut. Plenty of acorn though. It’s not my favorite, so it stands to reason I would have the most of it.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:53:09 +0000

Thanks for the info. That seed source is great. I will definitely be checking out some of their stock for the spring.

By: Coriander

Coriander — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:37:23 +0000

Hey, thanks for stopping by my blog awhile back. Are we awesome at naming blogs or what? I thought I’d answer your queries here as I took such a long break that my readership is probably back down to 6. You asked about the purple carrots. They were Purple Haze and I got them here http://www.territorialseed.com/product/614/s. The potting mix I used was about half aged compost and half potting soil from the store. It was pretty light and fluffy. Anyway, I really like your blog. I have had the too many dudes problem as well, ahem, I mean my squash plants have. I ended up stir frying a bunch of the flowers because it never occurred to me to hand pollinate.

By: Mary Delle

Mary Delle — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:16:16 +0000

Sometimes the guys just need a little help, if the bees can’t do it. I won’t find you silly out there early rubbing the pollen between blooms. Go for it.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:30:14 +0000

Awesome. I tried to work some kind of play on Viagra in there, but it didn’t pan out in the drafting. Limp stems aren’t really the problem. It’s more of a delivery thing.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:27:14 +0000

Thanks! Perhaps we should stick to pollinating our own flowers. For propriety’s sake. Although, I do feel like some kind of line has already been crossed …

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:24:03 +0000

Thanks. Too bad about your winter squash. I guess we’ll have to get more involved in the mating processes of squash — more so than we ever imagined.

By: Mike Crolene

Mike Crolene — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:10:22 +0000

Is there such thing as Butternut Viagra? Maybe if you show them some pictures of mature squash fruit from the Sunset Garden book. Although you might be putting too much pressure on them to perform.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:22:23 +0000

Love the photo and love the writing. Awesome post. And who knew that there are different genders of squash flowers. I might join you in some pollination. Of flowers. Squash flowers. In my yard. This just seems to be getting worse…