Re: [gardeners] Mother's thighs
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:25:29 -0600
At 10:13 AM 7/13/98 +0000, you wrote:
>MaPat sent me the following (sorry, Mother, but we need the experts!!):
>
>Those squash plants are growing a tad, are full of blooms, and not a
>single solitary zucchini. They had better shape up or out they go;
>they are shading the thyme -- and one seems to be developing mildew.
>That I can't figure in all this heat. 104 yesterday (and 110 in
>Dallas) and more to come.
>-----------------
>Ok, she has green thighs that are now about 2 feet long, filled with
>flowers. No real shortage of pollinators. They've been producing flowers
>for over a month and still not a single green thigh. I'm stumped. Mine
>didn't act this way last year. I couldn't keep up with the picking! The
>'mildew' sounds ominous....being lazy, I'd pull the plant and destroy and
>cross my fingers that the other plants don't succumb.
>
>Catharine, Atlanta (MaPat is in dry, dry Fredericksburg, Tx., zone 8a)
>
Well, she can dine on squash blossoms then. She's apparently getting all
male blossoms anyway. Could she just cut off the mildew-afflicted leaves?
Move the thyme. Thyme is expendable anyway. I had thought she had lost
all of the squash plants.
I don't have a scanner, and I'm too lazy to type in recipes (Mme. No-Fat
will change them anyway ;-))))) ). Run a search in epicurious or
something. I think Mexican recipes are at
www.epicurious.com/e_eating/e06_parilla/parilla.html
Cutting male blossoms may stimulate female fruiting anyway. I have no idea
why. Maybe it's a magic thang. Tell her just please not to cook any bees.
Best, Margaret