Reply To: Pumpkins in Paradise

  • BentNeedle

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    October 17, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    This is what you end up with the Trombocino (should have been trellised) and the snake Ramplicante. My husband picked the borer eggs off the plants in the first round (we have multiple seasons of vine borers) and just let it go since. We pruned it back *severely*, haven’t fertilized and maybe watered once a week since the temps have cooled off to under a 100F with no rain. Yeah, that’s the front yard. Normally we don’t sun shade the front beds but radiation intensity deemed it necessary. Aesthetics be damned! This late in the season we’re still picking the young uns as zucchini. The yellow ones in the pic have matured and supposedly taste like butternut. This is the only moschata we’ll be growing next year as the Dr. Earth that Danny had success with regarding the borers didn’t work for our c. pepo zucchini.