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which_chick ([personal profile] which_chick) wrote2008-07-10 09:59 pm

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Midsummer garden report: Harvest of black raspberries is underway. The canes made a lot this year. Harvest of japanese beetles is also underway. (I just drown them in a mixture of dish soap and water.) There are a lot of them this year, too. Tomato plants have set some fruit, which is way not-ripe-yet. Hot peppers have set some fruit, also way-not-ripe-yet. Cilantro is flowering and going to seed. Zuke plant has one small zuke on it.

[identity profile] not-your-real.livejournal.com 2008-07-11 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Big healthy cucumber plants have producted two (2) cucumbers, one harvested too soon and one a monster whopper. All other female flowers are sitting there looking virginal and pretty until old-maid-dom sets in.

Cukes are a bee-pollinated plant.

Human-pollination experiment on one of the two plants starting as soon as I get up off my ass and find a paintbrush.