How's Your Garden Growing?
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My acorn squash came up this year and got to the point where the plant is about the size of a softball. They reached that point two months ago. Today they still look perfectly healthy but they havent grown a bit since. No vines, no flowers, no fruit, just a seedling. It is weird as hell. I do my own composting and soil testing and so far everything seems perfect. Just no growth.
I have no advice to give you. I have had that problem with cantaloupe and couldn't figure it out then also.
I love the mellow flesh of acorn squash though.
This year I planted 7 zucchini plants. The squash borers have gotten two so far, but I've had massive return off all them. With my very first harvest I experimented with flash freezing round cuts of zucchini separately on parchment paper & then vacuum sealing portions, which I later breaded/battered and cooked while still frozen.
Wow! They cooked up so well I was amazed. I honestly couldn't tell the difference from fresh fried zucchini. I would never be able to get that same result with frozen, then thawed zukes.
I have the best soil in the world - black Nebraska soil.
I jsut saw a video about flash freezing. I have 4 squash/zuke plants and they are going gangbusters. Of course we have to preen them for borer eggs and nymphs. I just slice mine lengthwise a few times and vacuum seal them and freeze.
Tomatoes are doing great but production is dropping. Beans, lettuce, cukes, etc all doing OK to well.
First year gardening in NC. Raised beds.