Beginner Gardening: 2015 Grow-Along Challenge: Squash Wars - Roll Call!, 1 by Lily_love

Lily_love wrote:
Hope the rains stop soon for you pepper 23. We're now getting rain ourselves. I had just enough time to heel my squash and zukes in with new potting soil. I harvested 2 more 'Spineless Beauty' zukes. Although, the 'Horn of Plenty' were quite young yet*. I picked them because I was hoping the heeled-in procedure will stimulate more roots formation on the plants. My experienced gardener neighbor encouraged me to plant new squash in place of the damaged squash. But I'm holding out for their survival since I could NOT find the same varieties (cultivars) from the market place.

*addendum: I picked the young fruits from my squash hoping to divert the plant's energy to form new roots, instead of putting forth energy to the young fruits.

This message was edited Jul 3, 2015 12:31 PM