First, fail your way to success:
And then you see the Hubbards, just a few days before the vine borers got them, in my video on harvesting the corn in the Three Sisters garden:
So. Close. Another couple of weeks and I would have had fruit on those Hubbards. They were forming. It was working.
Until it wasn’t. The vine borers are a big problem here. A local farmer told me to water the vines with Sevin dust in water to keep them off, but I just couldn’t do it. If I had, though, I would have Hubbards.
Dang it.