Too late for Melons, butternut squash, or Brussels sprouts?
DandyLioness (CA 9, SZ 14)
6 years ago
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Comments (4)1. I don't know why your Brussels Sprout would shrivel while your broccoli plants were healthy. Usually such symptoms indicate cabbage root maggots or one of the root rots, but that affects broccoli as well. 2. Broccoli, especially the open pollinated cultivars, will head at different intervals. If the plants are large and healthy, you should be ok. 3. Only the cucurbits ( squash, cucumbers, melons, watermelons) need insect pollination. Most of the time there are enough insects, but with a limited number of plants, they don't always find the blossoms in time. Hand pollination is sometimes needed. All of these have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. There are cucumber and zucchini cultivars that produce without pollination. There are hybrids (seedless watermelons for example ) that require a pollenizer....See MoreWANTED: Sweet Meat and hybrid Brussel Sprouts
Comments (2)Bump. I still have not been able to locate sweet meat squash or hybrid brussel sprouts in trade. I don't want to have to place another seed order....See MoreBrussels sprouts not growing
Comments (5)Hey vera_eastern_wa - Mine are Long Island Improved, too! It's been unseasonably cool here, but days are now starting to reach into the 80s - low 90s. And it's humid, as always. I did notice that about planting in late June - July... but it'll be even hotter then, so dunno if that'll be bad! skagit_goat_man - When I prepared the soil, I mixed in some Miracle Gro Organic Choice Garden Soil (.10 - .05 - .10), along with composted manure and some leaf compost, which admittedly was still very leafy and not-very-composted. Since then, I've side-dressed some of the other areas of my 4'X 6' plot with Garden Tone (3-4-4), but I haven't touched the sprouts yet, 'cause I wasn't sure what to use. One Web site suggested 10-20-0 fertilizer for Brussels, and wasn't sure where to get that!...See MoreBrussel Sprouts Never Sprouted!!
Comments (7)Naturegirl, my tomatoes are alive, but barely. The rest of them look like they are being eaten by any number of things. I got maybe 5 good ones, the rest of the ones that *would* have been good I think were eaten by the squirrels. The ones that are next to ripen have holes. :( Bummer. I only planted the yellow, low acid ones, and my husband was sort of responsible for the veggie garden this year - and since he doesn't eat tomatoes and doesn't think I should either (he's into the blood type diet and we're "type A" - meaning avoid tomatoes), they were a bit neglected and never properly staked, so a lot ended up drooping to the ground. I was lazy and didn't take care of it myself, I'm not really a true gardener, obviously, but next year I think I will try the little yellow cherry tomatoes, the pear shaped ones. Maybe they will ripen quicker and I can get them before the bugs and squirrels do. I really had no idea the Brussels sprouts were such a late fall crop, so hopefully we'll get something from those. None of the other cruciferous things did particularly well, though we did finally get some decent kale. The plants never got very big, but the bugs didn't bother those. The broccoli on the other hand got huge, but very full of holes and produced such tiny florets. Not worth the amount of space they took up....See MoreCindy 7 VA
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