I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After
several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm early this week, and this is
what it did to my squashes which were still on the plant.

http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/al...photo=35209879


Impressive, no? They were all right on Saturday.

Steve

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"shazzbat" wrote:

I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After
several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm early this week, and this is
what it did to my squashes which were still on the plant.

http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/al...photo=35209879


Impressive, no? They were all right on Saturday.

Steve



Good lord! ;-)
Well, I'd just cook them up and freeze any extra...
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

shazzbat wrote:
I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After
several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm early this week, and this is
what it did to my squashes which were still on the plant.

http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/al...photo=35209879


Impressive, no? They were all right on Saturday.

Too bad they can't shed their skins when they outgrow them, like lizards!

shazzbat wrote:

I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After
several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm early this week, and this is
what it did to my squashes which were still on the plant.

http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/al...photo=35209879


Impressive, no? They were all right on Saturday.

Steve


Well that's the first time I've ever seen that happen! Tomatoes and
cabbages will do that, but usually not squash. I wonder if that one kind
of squash is prone to doing that?

Steve

Steve said:

shazzbat wrote:

I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After
several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm early this week, and this is
what it did to my squashes which were still on the plant.


http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/al...photo=35209879

Impressive, no? They were all right on Saturday.

Well that's the first time I've ever seen that happen! Tomatoes and
cabbages will do that, but usually not squash. I wonder if that one kind
of squash is prone to doing that?

Watermelons will split like that, too. But I've never seen squashes do
tha, and I've tried a lot of different varieties. (The only subset I've
never tried has been spaghettie squash.)
--
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"shazzbat" wrote in message
...
I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After
several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm early this week, and this
is
what it did to my squashes which were still on the plant.

http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/al...photo=35209879


Impressive, no? They were all right on Saturday.

Steve



9mm is only a shower, this seems odd to me to be the only cause.

David

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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

"shazzbat" wrote in message
...
I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After
several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm early this week, and this
is
what it did to my squashes which were still on the plant.

http://photos.wanadoo.co.uk/album/al...photo=35209879


Impressive, no? They were all right on Saturday.

Steve



9mm is only a shower, this seems odd to me to be the only cause.

David



What else would/could cause that???
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Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson