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Old 10-06-2014, 11:05 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Not a good year so far
On 6/10/2014 1:49 PM, wrote:
I have had a hard time with peppers that are now finally starting to take off. Now the zucchini and yellow squash is turning yellow and the fruit are shriveling up and dying. Plenty of sun, water, epsom salt, black cow and 10.10.10. Too much? I am so frustrated this year. There is the whole vole problem, slow growing plants and now this. Ideas or words of encouragement?? My freezers are empty, I was counting a large amounts of produce.
MJ

Do you have squash borers? They decimated our yellow squash but don't
seem to affect the zucchini. Some of our squash is going yellow because
we are getting daily temperatures in the low nineties Fahrenheit.

We have been lucky in that we have had over twelve inches of rain in the
last month. This time last year we were in drought conditions and spent
lots of money watering the gardens. During the winter I put in soaker
hoses in the raised bed vegetable gardens and drip irrigation around the
fruit trees and in the flower/vegetable in ground beds.

How has your weather been? That can be the critical element.
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