[Market-farming] squash maturity

frshstrt at baldwin-telecom.net frshstrt at baldwin-telecom.net
Sun Sep 2 13:43:00 EDT 2007


HI!  I asked the list to help after a storm with 60+mph wind and hail 
decimated all my crops.  The squash was on the vines and the vines were 
still in the soil even though the foliage was gone.  I was told to leave 
them alone and I did so.  The foliage has since started to regrow not 
only on the squash but on other plants as well.  I harvested a couple 
squash to check the maturity and they were ripe.  Time will tell if I 
get anything else so I have planted a few fall crops.  The greenhouse is 
not as bad as originally thought.  Yesterday my husband, daughter and 
her boyfriend worked to pull the hoops striaght.and I may only lose a 
few feet of the total greenhouse from damage.  We still need new plastic 
and some other small things  but its a lot less than replacing a whole 
structure.  I was to the point after struggling with 2 years of drought  
and the storm I wanted to pack it all in.  We still won't know about our 
fruit trees since the hail damaged them too but things are lots better 
than they were.  Have a nice Labor Day!!!  Lu in Wis



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