Thursday, June 3, 2010

Doh!

Upon actually, you know, looking at the plants it's pretty apparent which one is not like the others... aka, which is the butternut squash. They were squished in the back of the cage and I hadn't looked past the giant leaves that look like the zucs. They're much more vine-like though. Since they clearly want to head somewhere, I've pulled them out and set them under an old screen door. I'm hoping they'll head horizontally across that.

I put all the beans where they had been in the cage. That displaced the other zuc that was still in the cage (the one I thought was the butternut squash). Its my best looking one in terms of the beautiful green leaves. I don't know if that was because it's spent its whole life up till this point in the cage, protecting it from whatever has caused the white on the rest of the leaves. I'll have to see what happens now that it is out with the others. I did toss up the rest of the screens we had laying around to form a little (not so stable) fenced in area that will keep out probably nothing. I've got a roll of screen in the garage I could use to make an enclosure of some sort, but I don't have time for that kind of project at the moment. The zucchini are growing so hopefully no wildlife gets to them before I do.

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