Zucchini "talk"

Gladly I avoided "the talk" when I was younger but it's a fact of life, even when zucchinis are concerned. Here they are, slightly pruned to give eachother a bit of space.

With the male flowers, I pull them off when there's a female needing pollunation. I rip the petals of and shove it in the female flower and leave it there. Can't be bothered with all this paintbrush nonsense. I spose it's ok when you have a large crop and limited males - never happened to me.

This is Mrs zucchini, see the difference in the stamen?? thing in the middle
Mr Zucchini + Mrs Zucchini = So you really have to check them every day to see if the female flowers are open and ready for the tickling :o) If it doesn't pollinate properly the young fruit (that is in a young stage when the female flowers) will rot.

This is why tomatoes are so great, you never have to bother with them they seem not to need tickling.

Sprung

Well we're almost at the end of spring and I still want to do so much but don't' have the room. Here's what I've got:

Potato patch with kipfler, sebago, ruby red and some other random I've forgotten.

The stinky compost that I put a bag of "pigeon manure" in from a friend at the local permaculture group.. it wasn't nice. It's slowly getting better.

Haven't got much hope for these figs, last year's efforts weren't worth it. We'll see!

I know! I know! Waaay too close together. I need encouragement to pull the middle one out. If there's not adequate space between plants they struggle to compete for nutrients and don't produce well. I'm packing the feed and tonics on them :o)

The first Lebanese zuccini

Lemon Verbena in a pot while we make a new home for it.

Rainbow chard with my size 8's. There's pink, white and orange (the bright pink on the right is the back of the orange type. LOVE these ones but they're never as strong or bushy as the white.

DS1 squirting water at DH.
Behind him is the lemon tree with strawberry patch underneath.

...more tomorrow