The squash plants are starting to spread out, soon I hope they will be big enough and brave enough to fight it out with the weeds which I have deliberately not bothered weeding because I know squash have excellent smothering tendencies which will hopefully kill even the most persistent of weeds. Most of the squash plants are planted over an upturned bottomless bottle to help funnel the water to the roots, and it seems to be working, the plants with the bottles are definitely more vigorous than the ones without.
It was far to hot to actually attempt anything today so I picked some cabbage and globe artichokes to go with my new potatoes and then took some snaps of the bees enjoying the flowering parsley.
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Good grief, my pot-bound squash plants (which are no longer pot-bound but planted in) look R-U-B-B-I-S-H compared to yours.
I just left it too long and now they're look all anaemic and sickly and spindly and rubbish. But I had to give them a chance didn't I?
Hope you get loads of fruit - enjoy it, cos some of us are so pants we won't be able to enjoy the fruits of our labours!!! :)
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