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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] slow squash
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:29:45 -0400

> > > Hi, all-- >   > Hope you can help me figure this out. I've got healthy, vigorous > straightneck and crookneck squash plants, with lots of young squash and good > blossoms, but I can't get many of the squash  to mature to full size. > They've had plenty of irrigation and are in good soil. Any idea why they won't > grow out? >   > --Dave in W.Va.

I suspect Kelly is right, lack of pollenizers (bees) is why your squash aren't growing out. Are they in a tunnel? You can buy a bumblebee nest in a box and mount it in the tunnel. Bees will visit squash and pumpkin blossoms but they prefer many other wild flowers so anything you can do to promote pollenizers on your farm will improve fruit set on crops.

Bill


William H. Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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