Meet the Flying Squash Monster!

Which is finally producing an actual Yellow Crookneck Squash, and hopefully will produce a few more before it's done. That front leaf, incidentally, is about as wide as my head.

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... signing-Am I Boring My #Dog benefits AZ #Greyhound Rescue at Clues Unlimited- tinyurl.com/yfp4qkd #tucson # 13:08 Happy Bear Dance: the Big Boy tomatoes are finally setting fruit! Yay! Sad Panda: crookneck in the main bed had stem snap. Damn. # 13:52 RT @RayBeckerman: Music Think Tank: The Lottery Model, The Free Culture Model, The Click Control Model buzzup.com/feas # 13:52 ...

...large pot, one big enough to boil a chicken but not big enough to boil down a turkey carcass for stock, you are going to combine the following items: 1 medium eggplant 1 smallish zuke 1 smallish yellow crookneck squash 2 regular tomatoes or 4 plum tomatoes 1 white onion 5 cloves garlic (give or take) 1 green/red/orange/yellow bell pepper. (You can go two here if they're cheap.) 8 oz white ...

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... to co-opt Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES for Christians, compares Darwin to Hitler, makes video. bit.ly/11k8v3 # 16:11 The ants and aphids may have won the battle with the long cucumber, but the crookneck squash in the hanging planter are coming in *fast* now # 16:13 What's really driving me cuckoo, though - the disaster that's the cilantro. Man, that's one tetchy herb. # 18:52 @ ...

Garden Man, Garden Man, does everything a garden can...

...'s growing well, but not really resembling broccoli yet (lots of stems and leaves, no sign of florets.) I'm still having a tough time getting peppers to do anything other than die, unfortunately. The crookneck squash plants that were seeded directly into the crap soil in the yard are doing very well indeed. They're going to become an inconvenience before long, I'm sure. I might well have killed ...

Bagels and beef stock

... to be a mistake) so started fooling with vegetables and pizza instead. I wanted to use up a crookneck squash from the CSA and eat a bunch of tomatoes, so I sauteed some onion and jalapenos, then added diced squash and cooked it down real well. Except I didn't realize that at some point crookneck squashes go from summer squash (where you can eat the whole thing) to winter squash (which have to...

Day 3

... -- I'd prefer no bears that close. Dinner was spinich fettuchini with home-made pesto (basil and garlic from the csa box) topped with a stir-fry of some of the ground bison and the usual csa box suspects (the rest of the crookneck squash, onion, bell pepper). I'll probably wander over to the nature program in the amphitheater when I'm done cleaning up. Assuming I don't just fall into bed.

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... for a while - tea, lunch, garden, laundry, and a bit of mad twanging.... # 14:20 ...sigh. Karma heard a neighbor she likes, and went to look...total, in bed, pots, bags: one crookneck squash, two marigolds, three carrots. # 15:20 @ DarrenH1221 And you too. We obviously disagree, but you've been reasonable. Good luck with your work and all, and stay well! # 00:53 @ AzLeeshy *...

And up they come, like a very slow Vesuvius

... in a large can, and regular oregano in a pot. Karma later decided to see what was what at the neighbor's place and stepped into the bed so she could get a better idea...that nailed a crookneck squash plant, some of the sprouting bag carrots, and two marigolds in a starter pot. Oh, and the neighbor also screwed up closing the wonky gate, so Karma got out for a walkabout; fortunately she was ...

An orange squash, sunflowers heads, and a rising moon...

... with a hoe. What was accomplished is that the garden bean plants with the overripe pods have been cleared away and more weeds were removed from among the molucella laevis, dill, and by the nasturtiums. The crookneck squash is gone. I had either on purpose or accidently pulled it up sometime ago if not this week and I cleaned up the debris from it. There was one nice orange overripe squash still ...