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| Mary-Anne |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 12:44:32
I thought about writing Cucubita up top but if you are just starting off you would have no idea that Zucchini, Pumpkins and Squash belong to the Cucubita family I know I didn't..
Plenty of Info on this link below also. http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1975765.htm
To give you a idea on what flower is Female and Male below is the Zucchini.
The Female Pumpkin Flower:
The Male Pumpkin Flower:
Female Flower Kent Pumpkin showing the Pistil
Male Flower Kent Pumpkin showing the Pollen on the Stamen.
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| Di Taylor |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 08:56:48
Thanks Mary-Anne, haha they will be the mini pumpkins I tried to grow several times last season and gave up on, must have thrown them in the garden heap over winter and now mother nature is making a fool of me. I havn't quite got the photo thing right as I didnt put comments with them. The last photo is a female flower of a different plant  , it doesnt have the round swelling so not sure if it something else. As you can see bumble bees busy and every flower had either a bumble bee or a honey bee in it working hard. The bird is a handraised thrush (1 of 2) that I have just realised, they are quite tame and love keeping me company in the garde. I have raised a few this season, they come into the vet clinic I work at as fledglings that have fallen from nests. Thanks
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| Mary-Anne |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 08:03:58
Good that you have posted the photo's ok .. They look like little pumpkins to me..
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| Di Taylor |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 07:54:25
Hi Mary Ann - sorry got all over excited and didnt read your last message properly  Right hopefully here are the out of focus photos, my photography technique needs some work...
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| Mary-Anne |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 07:30:31
Hi Di you cannot insert images from the icons above, please look at my reply on top it explains it all..
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| Di Taylor |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 07:14:36
 Help - Im having huge problems trying to load up photos.... have taken some of my mystery curcs, tried to insert image but it doesnt give me option to browse and pull them up.. what am doing wrong
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| Mary-Anne |
Posted - 08/01/2009 : 11:45:24
Hi Di and Welcome to Garden Delights..
Looking forward to hearing about all the thing you grow..
We have lots of Lebanese cucumber vines flowering and fruiting at present I can go down after and have a look to see if there are male and female flowers, if there are babies they wont look much different to zucchini..
Apple cukes are a very light green colour almost cream here so maybe it could be a pumpkin, rock melon or even a watermelon, can you take a pic instructions here http://gardendelights.forumco.com/topic~TOPIC_ID~1481.asp for how to put them on with Photobucket
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| Di Taylor |
Posted - 08/01/2009 : 11:00:16
Wow thanks, I have been gazing at my self seeded curcubits wondering what they are and if I should be handpollinating. We have heaps of bees so I havn't bothered, using your photos as a guide I think I have an appled cucumber Not sure, but it has a round swelling like the pumpking pic but smooth, shiny and darker, or it could be a mini- pumpkin, in either case these are discards from last years germination failures that got hurled into the garden in disgust 
Some however don't seem to look like much of anything in the stem department, just long thin and smooth although a little hairy, although look like female flowers inside ....any suggestions, are they unpollinated, are my bees lazy
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| Tony |
Posted - 17/12/2008 : 05:30:02
Sydneys northern beaches, but did live in Cairns for ten years. Which seems like a lifetime ago!
Gave my entire crop a serve of high NPK last night. Unfortunately the horse poo is so light that it doesn't seem to have fanstastic water holding abilities.
I have my annual fishing trip shortly and think I might grab a big pile of the decayed ribbon weed from the waters edge to improve the bulk and water holding of my soil. I think this will add nicely to the structure of the soil.
Surprisingly how quickly the poo is diminishing, my first garden bed, is down to half its original depth in only 8 weeks. And surprise surprise thats exactly where my Zuchinies are.
Live and learn.
t |
| pitta |
Posted - 16/12/2008 : 15:13:03
Tony . What state are you hailing from .Pitta.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
Cooktown |
| Tony |
Posted - 16/12/2008 : 06:25:25
Thank you, one and all. I've read up on potash and it' lack of does describe the problems I'm having. I'll give it a go and let you know. I'll try to get some pictures of my little garden. Hopefully we will be supplying xmas salad entirely from our garden.
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| tessa |
Posted - 15/12/2008 : 15:41:54
i agree with pitta.
i would look to potash.
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| Gail |
Posted - 15/12/2008 : 15:03:39
Old manures are a good growing media but I think they are low in some elements so a dose of some general purpose all-round organic food may give it the boost it needs.
Just had a look at an old book of mine - it says though the NPK varies depending on the diet but horse manure is around .7-.3-.6 so is very light in nutrient.
I wish I had access to some of your manure!
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
| pitta |
Posted - 15/12/2008 : 13:59:25
,Tony. Google, Potash .Iam sure you will learn a lot from that . Also Gardening Australia ABC also on the subject Potash.Pitta.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
Cooktown |
| Tony |
Posted - 15/12/2008 : 12:33:19
I'm thinking to little potassium, although spent a lazy day googling the topic and can find nothing but praise for poo. Over the next year or so looks like it will be experimenting to see what types of veges respond to that type of media. The poo really does break down so after this season I'll top it up with something else for that growing season. Seems a shame cause I can get tonnes of it for free. And free poo is the best poo of all.
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| Gail |
Posted - 15/12/2008 : 11:25:05
I'm not sure what your weather has been like but could also be fluctuating temperatures, or too much or not enough rain. What do you feed them with if anything? Would they be getting too much nitrogen not enough potassium? Or lack of a trace element... I can never remember which trace elements cause what
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
