3 responses to “Jason Avers Explains Side-Dressing and Fertilizers”

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   Aunteater

   July 21, 2020

   Off-topic, but reading through your new book, and it helped me solve a garden mystery! I had gourds, squashes, seminole pumpkins, AND cantaloupes all sprouting in pots, lost track of which ones were which, and had to sort it out after they were all fruiting. Fortunately, the pumpkins have a distinctive silvery patterning on their leaves, so (I thought) they were easier to tell apart from the rest, even before flowering and fruiting happened. But then, I started getting bunches of melons and gourds (good grief! SO many gourds! What the heck will I do with dozens of ornamental gourds??) and one of the things I thought was a pumpkin vine started growing what appeared to be bottle gourds– green, with stubby little necks.

   And then, after a while, they started turning orange. The same orange as the pumpkins, oddly enough. And about that time I read in your latest book about Seminole pumpkins being more of a landrace, and having a lot of variability, and sometimes having necks… so not gourds, but pumpkins! Really, really weird looking pumpkins :)

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   Aunteater

   July 21, 2020

   Here they are, along with the gourds I cut today. Would’ve left them all longer, but we had a lot of rain this week and the lawn they’ve crept into is flooded— so they are all in the water :( Hopefully they can finish ripening off the vine. I lost one to worms after it sat in the water too long.

   https://flic.kr/p/2josLPA

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      David The Good

      July 27, 2020

      Those are beautiful!