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Just had to share (annoyance)
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Just had to share (annoyance)
My spaghetti squash, after last years slug-fest was doing pretty good this year in the raised bed, it had two squash growing on it, and one of them was probably 8 inchs long, and getting fairly plump so looked like it was likely to start turning that golden yellow soon and be lovely and ready to eat.
Got home this evening to find out my mother-in-law thought it was a zucchini so picked it because it was "getting too big, and they don't taste good when they get big"
AHHHHH So irritated right now.
Got home this evening to find out my mother-in-law thought it was a zucchini so picked it because it was "getting too big, and they don't taste good when they get big"
AHHHHH So irritated right now.
arla- Posts : 109
Join date : 2011-09-09
Location : El Cerrito, CA
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
Oh man...so sorry to hear. We had a friend do that too...thought it was a zucchini. He felt awful. Do you have others growing? I wonder if it'll ripen if left on the counter??
southern gardener- Posts : 1887
Join date : 2011-06-21
Age : 43
Location : california, zone 10a
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
Have one other growing, so hoping that since the other was cut off this one will start to grow more. Only managed one full growth last year before mildew managed to take down the one I grew that didn't get snailed to death.
arla- Posts : 109
Join date : 2011-09-09
Location : El Cerrito, CA
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
I know that with pumpkins they will still turn orange even if they are green when picked. Just leave it in the sun for a few days. Hope this helps lessen the blow of you mother in law picking it early
mschaef- Posts : 598
Join date : 2012-03-12
Age : 38
Location : Hampton, Georgia
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
That would be one weird hard zuke! I think you can eat spaghetti squash at any stage though, thought I remembered reading it once, I had several last year from the size of a baseball to the size of a cantaloupe and they were all good!
cheyannarach- Posts : 2037
Join date : 2012-03-21
Location : Custer, SD
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
arla wrote:Only managed one full growth last year before mildew managed to take down the one I grew that didn't get snailed to death.
Me, too. Just one and then the PM took all the rest away.
I have similar issues with my mother visiting. I planted one spag squash and one zucchini in a 3x3 ft bed, knowing that would be too crowded but planning on training the spag squash up the rhodie bush behind the bed. Went home for lunch today and my mother has so sweetly planted about 6 more zucchini plants that she bought in there. They are all about 6 inches apart. Besides the crowding, I was trying to experiment with not bringing in any plants from the nurseries - everything is from seed - to see if I can avoid PM this year. Oh well...
I love my mom, I love my mom, I love....
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
Join date : 2012-05-20
Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
CC, if it's any consolation and to help your mother along, PM is everywhere. It is weather dependent on if it takes a hold. When we get to the hot muggy days of mid-summer preventive spraying will help some with the PM.
Do you have one of those hand pump garden sprayers?
Do you have one of those hand pump garden sprayers?
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Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
Well meaning neighbor who was babysitting the garden carefully picked all the "snow peas" before they got too filled out. Unfortunately, they were butter beans which have to be shelled. But since she kept my garden going, all was forgiven.
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Age : 81
Location : wilmington, nc zone 8
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
camprn wrote:CC, if it's any consolation and to help your mother along, PM is everywhere. It is weather dependent on if it takes a hold. When we get to the hot muggy days of mid-summer preventive spraying will help some with the PM.
Do you have one of those hand pump garden sprayers?
I had one...but the mother filled it with poison to stop the bugs from eating the hosta and roses. So, no, now I don't have one. I used a spritzer bottle last year and it worked for a while but then it finally got out of control. I'll pick up another pump sprayer since we may be inundated with squash, and write on it in big red letters "NO POISON ALLOWED".
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
Join date : 2012-05-20
Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
Well, neem is poison. What did she use? May I recommend it may be time to lock up all the garden stuff, including the tools, with a double lock system.CapeCoddess wrote:camprn wrote:CC, if it's any consolation and to help your mother along, PM is everywhere. It is weather dependent on if it takes a hold. When we get to the hot muggy days of mid-summer preventive spraying will help some with the PM.
Do you have one of those hand pump garden sprayers?
I had one...but the mother filled it with poison to stop the bugs from eating the hosta and roses. So, no, now I don't have one. I used a spritzer bottle last year and it worked for a while but then it finally got out of control. I'll pick up another pump sprayer since we may be inundated with squash, and write on it in big red letters "NO POISON ALLOWED".
CC
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
Oh she used some kind of Roundup stuff. I don't know...I was so sick about it I couldn't even get close to it except to bag it and take it to the hazardous waste shed at the dump. That was last year, so hopefully now we can live fresh, clean and safe going forward.
CC
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
CC - you are reminding me of the wonderful beauty of living 2000 miles from the rest of my family!
GG
GG
Goosegirl- Posts : 3435
Join date : 2011-02-16
Age : 59
Location : Zone 4A - NE SD
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
Hey, CC! How long is your mother visiting for? You could always carefully dig up the extra plants & give them away after she leaves-she'll never know the difference!
mollyhespra- Posts : 1087
Join date : 2012-09-21
Age : 58
Location : Waaaay upstate, NH (zone 4)
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
She lives here from May thru Nov. It's the family cottage but since there are only 3 of us left, I moved in permanently 6 yrs ago and she 'snowbirds' from FL every year. ugh.
I'm slowly retraining her from her old chemicals-for-everything ways....veeerrrrryyyy sloooooowly. She still sneaks in & hides the Dow 'Scrubbing Bubbles' tho.
CC
I'm slowly retraining her from her old chemicals-for-everything ways....veeerrrrryyyy sloooooowly. She still sneaks in & hides the Dow 'Scrubbing Bubbles' tho.
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
As George Burns once said, "Happiness is a loving, caring, close-knit family...Goosegirl wrote:CC - you are reminding me of the wonderful beauty of living 2000 miles from the rest of my family!
GG
that lives in another state."
I think my sunflower plant can take me in a fair fight...it's taller than me, and it keeps giving me dirty looks.
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Goosegirl- Posts : 3435
Join date : 2011-02-16
Age : 59
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Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
brainchasm wrote:As George Burns once said, "Happiness is a loving, caring, close-knit family...Goosegirl wrote:CC - you are reminding me of the wonderful beauty of living 2000 miles from the rest of my family!
GG
that lives in another state."
I would give a lot to have my mother interfering in my garden.
Sigh!
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
+1Kelejan wrote:brainchasm wrote:As George Burns once said, "Happiness is a loving, caring, close-knit family...Goosegirl wrote:CC - you are reminding me of the wonderful beauty of living 2000 miles from the rest of my family!
GG
that lives in another state."
I would give a lot to have my mother interfering in my garden.
Sigh!
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
Kelejan wrote:
I would give a lot to have my mother interfering in my garden.
Sigh!
I know...that's what the girls at work often tell me and I keep it in mind... ...even when I found the huge open container of systemic rose pesticide this morning, knowing that she recently planted her favorite rose bush right next to my fava bean plants (not in SFG), which now I won't be eating this year. *bigger sigh*
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
CapeCoddess wrote:Kelejan wrote:
I would give a lot to have my mother interfering in my garden.
Sigh!
I know...that's what the girls at work often tell me and I keep it in mind... ...even when I found the huge open container of systemic rose pesticide this morning, knowing that she recently planted her favorite rose bush right next to my fava bean plants (not in SFG), which now I won't be eating this year. *bigger sigh*
CC
CC, I don't even know if my mom would have interfered in my gardening efforts; she may have been even worse than yours.
Re: Just had to share (annoyance)
It's hard, isn't it? She just doesn't understand... You have my sympathy, CC.
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Location : Waaaay upstate, NH (zone 4)
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