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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to table
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Tag Archives: hand pollination
Getting Squashed in July
It happens every year about this time, sometimes a bit earlier. Suddenly, we are up to our ears in squash! That’s not a bad thing though. In addition to eating them fresh, I freeze a lot for use later in … Continue reading
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Tagged hand pollination, honeybees, summer squash, trellis, tromboncino, winter squash
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Hand-Pollinating Squash
Most gardeners don’t worry much about how their vegetables get pollinated. For one thing, almost all of the popular vegetables people grow do just fine without any help from the gardener. But squashes can sometime be an exception to that. … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, hand pollination, pollination, squash, summer squash, winter squash
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