What did you do in your garden today?

[Hinotori]

If you can get a eucalyptus plant for indoors you should be able to use the stuff that the plants shed off and mix it in the soil with the corn

Eucalyptus doesn't survive winter here. Too cold with wet feet apparently. I may try one indoors once I have the room.

 

[akroberts]

I am going to have to get to my neighbors house down the road from me and bag up a bunch of his eucalyptus debris. Well if I get enough I will make sure to put some in gallon Ziploc bags and let everyone know that I have it and ship it to you. It's worth a shot anyway

 

[flowerbug]

That's sad, I adore butternut personally, the neighbors grow a hug3 field of pumpkins though so I have to bag blooms for my seeds saving or get new seeds yearly.

kabocha (orange or green) and buttercup have been our favorites since we came across them. i can enjoy butternut but given the choice i'll go for the other first. also, i'm not really into the summer squashes that much even if i can eat them and enjoy them.

one squash i like for just the seeds is the hull-less green seeded kinds that are grown just for the seeds (to be eaten like any other pumpkin seed but nice that you don't have to shell them out). the downside is that the flesh of the pumpkin itself is often not very good at all. an obvious garden project would be to get them to cross and get a combination pumpkin with good flesh and also the hull-less green seeds but i never got far into it before we were overrun by groundhogs and i decided to not grow squash for a few years to see if i could break the cycle of predation and habitual raiding that was going on. oh, and also getting a better fence going.

the green seeded squash will happily cross with all your squash and turn them into a mixed variety of many that aren't very good.

 

[flowerbug]

this morning we got the windchimes put back up in a different location. i didn't have to do that much other than move the chunk of cement/rocks/etc with a hole in it to the spot where Mom wanted it and then stick the pole down through the hole and into the ground. Mom is happy to arrange things how she likes and i'm glad to leave it to her because if i do it she'll come along and redo it anyways.