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Resisting Mosaic Viruses in Cucurbits
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I grow most of my vegetables in a community garden plot: sunny, cheerful, with soil I’ve been improving with free compost for years now. It’s a good situation, but while community gardeners can share labor, tools, plants and seeds, they…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, community garden, Cucumbers, cucurbits, mosaic virus, Squash
Squash Family Pest Problem Tips
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The squash plant family (Cucurbitaceae) includes many garden favorites- cucumber, summer and winter squash, pumpkin, muskmelon, and watermelon. Unfortunately, it’s a family vulnerable to some of the most consequential insect pest and disease problems. The names squash bug, cucumber beetle,…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, bacterial wilt, cucumber beetle, Cucumbers, cucurbits, downy mildew, Squash, squash bug, squash vine borer
Summer vegetable review 2017
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We’re having a remarkably warm October here in Maryland, and some of the summer crops are still producing, but really, the season is over and it’s just a matter of time before it all goes in the compost heap. This…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Beans, Peppers, Squash, Tomatoes
The Three Sisters Garden
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This year at the Derwood Demo Garden we acquired some new planting space, which I decided to use for a growing technique we just haven’t had the square footage for in many years: a Three Sisters garden. Growing corn, beans,…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Beans, Corn, Squash, Three Sisters, Watermelon
Cauliflower couscous, stuffed pumpkin, and other Thanksgiving yums
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Happy day after Thanksgiving, all! The weather is so nice here that I hope all you gardeners are calling it Green Friday and getting out there to finish up fall chores. I cooked up a storm for Thanksgiving (not literally,…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Erica, Caulflower, Holidays, Squash
Into the heart of the squash…
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Every vegetable deserves a closeup, right? To pull back a little… I cut into my last Piena di Napoli squash yesterday: (Never thought of my countertop as squash-colored before. Huh.) The occasion for making the cut (and the reason I’ll…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Erica, Squash, Year of Cucurbits
Big squash update
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Since my previous post on the subject, I’ve decided that my enormous squashes are perhaps not Rogosa Violina, but in fact Piena di Napoli (which are still green on the outside when ripe). I know, I should do a better job…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Erica, Squash, Year of Cucurbits
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