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Got some garden in here . Been up north once already . I will probably do a few tomato plants , cucumber and squash up north . Got permits and lined up excavater and concrete work . Turned logs into lumber . Next trip more logs to lumber . Hope to be ready to start building on foundation in July...

No I have been on about 9 days . Still learning . I was not getting on site notices on some threads I was subscribed to . So I posted on some today . Been gone and then busy . It is going to be a busy summer . Starting to build a cabin/house . So I May not be on much .

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Looks like a squash or pumpkin .

Very true .

Not sure it will take . Patty pan is a C. Pepo group and the big moon giant probably a different group . It may set fruit with blank seeds .

More info for you . Crossing is rare in most tomatoes . Some varieties are prone to crossing . On these the pistil ( female part ) sticks out past the pollen part . Most say inside the pollen part . I have only observed 2 natural crosses in about 45 years . One popped up this year . The larger...

I think he said luffa .

Tomatoes have slowed up and cucumbers also . Okra is blooming . I started it late . Pumpkins and squash doing great . No sing of stink bugs yet this year .

Cushaw .

Cushaw . They make the best pies . Better tan the Dickinson pumpkin .

Found this hidden in the vines . Did not think any had set .

This turned into the squash/gourd below .

Dickinson pumpkin . The variety used by the canning factories here in Illinois . cucumbers for seed . 2 Suyo long and a straight eight . The straight eight is 12 inches . 2 of my F2 gourd x zucchini . Reason for these is squash bores kill my summer squash but leave my gourds alone . So far...

I need to plant turnips and Diakon radish . Cucumbers and cherry tomatoes going strong . Still waiting on the slicing tomatoes to ripen . Had 3 so far .

Came home to this after 2 weeks . Getting it under control . 5 loads so far .

Easiest method for the grape is layering . Just put a clump of dirt on a vine to hold it down on the ground . It will root . Cut it free next year and move it to a new spot . Many things can affect flavor on blackberry . Lots of rain gives berries with less flavor . Dry conditions can increase...

I cut 6 suckers from tomato plants for rooting in water . These will be my insurance for late season tomatoes up to frost time . I planted a couple of potted Boyne raspberries next to 2 different blackberries for crossing next year . I will remove pollen parts on the Boyne next year and let...

Hollyhocks are blooming .