29-08-2013, 01:28 PM
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Re: Squashes
Originally Posted by Janela
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Another update on my squashes .. we had 5 squashes, they were about fist size. Hubby lifted them off the soil and put some fibre matting for them to sit on.Something pinched a big chunk of the fibre and ate 4 of the fruit
There are plenty of new flowers but I'm so bl**dy annoyed
We were looking forward to trying them..I don't know if it's too late in the season for more squashes to develop.
I hope you get more squashes.I have decided gardening is a nightmare, if it is not one pest destroying things its another
I have just spent ages picking some strange caterpillars off the goosberries with tweezers
not the usual green ones but brown ones with a white mohican hair cut.
29-08-2013, 07:40 PM
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Re: Squashes
Angie, I have a net over now .. a bit late, but nothing else is going to eat them
I don't think its slugs Arthur, and we have a few pellets round it. Besides, would they want the matting
Meg, I love your description of the caterpillars with white Mohican hair cuts
I've tried to find them but nothing yet.
Yes, gardening is a never ending battle
but it keeps us busy.Our lawn is looking the worst it has for years, but it will be a bowling green next year
30-08-2013, 01:51 PM
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Re: Squashes
Originally Posted by Janela
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Angie, I have a net over now .. a bit late, but nothing else is going to eat them I don't think its slugs Arthur, and we have a few pellets round it. Besides, would they want the matting
Meg, I love your description of the caterpillars with white Mohican hair cuts
I've tried to find them but nothing yet.
Yes, gardening is a never ending battle
but it keeps us busy.Our lawn is looking the worst it has for years, but it will be a bowling green next year
05-09-2013, 10:22 PM
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Re: Squashes
We have started our campaign on the lawn(well, hubby has
)He has scarified the life out of it for two days!
Then he aerated it.
He has mowed it, mostly to suck up all the stuff left by the scarifying. (he filled a tonny bag
)It was watered tonight, Saturday we will weed and feed, then in a couple of weeks, when it has revived a bit he says he will give it a seaweed feed.
By spring we will have a bowling green
He is confident, that his lawn will be the envy of the neighbours again.
Oh yes, I have a lovely yellow squash - but I don't know when it is supposed to be picked
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