Self promotional post alert: My latest video posted to my YT channel.

9 Unpopular gardening opinions to offend everyone
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#veggiegardening #vegetablegardening

I like 50% myself. It seems to take the edge off without slowing growth. Even 30% will be a big help, though.

Behold the power of shade cloth!

Saturday it was almost 100 degrees out, the sun was giving a fusion powered middle finger to the region and not a bit of wilt on my squash.

These drama queens wilt when it’s 75 and sunny. #veggiegardening #shadecloth #vegetablegardening

Just a recent video I posted on a squash pollination tip. It might be useful for some gardeners.

A Squash “Hack” to Increase Your Harvest
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Finally had my first tomato of the season reach the breaker stage of ripeness. #veggiegardening #tomatoes

Enough pickling cukes have begun to trickle in for me to make the first few jars of refrigerator dill pickles of the season. #gardening #veggiegardening #pickling

Cattle panels will definitely be on the supplies list when it’s time to rebuild my gardens.

Best of luck with your tomatoes this season.

For what it’s worth, none of mine have broken or uprooted. Still, it’s a bit anxiety inducing watching them get thrashed around on gusty days.

In retrospect, a string trellis setup for my indeterminate tomatoes wasn’t the best idea here in the notoriously windy Sacramento Valley. They’re tossed around pretty bad every time the weather shifts. #veggiegardening #tomatoes #vegetablegardening

It’s a useful trick but there are some caveats.

1. Both plants need to be of the same species. You couldn’t pollinate a butternut squash with a zucchini flower.

2. If you’re a seed saver, the next generation might not be a desirable hybrid. A zucchini/acorn cross doesn’t sound great imo.

Have a squash plant with an abundance of female flowers but no male flowers? You can pollinate with male flowers from plants of any variety of the same species. I’ve been pollinating these acorn squash plants (cucurbita Pepo) with flowers from zucchini plants (also cucurbita pepo). #veggiegardening

First zucchini of the season! #veggiegardening #vegetablegardening #zucchini

Posted a video to my YT channel on my experience growing potatoes in the unique climate of the Sacramento Valley. #veggiegardening #vegetablegardening #potatoes

When to Grow Potatoes in Hot Climates
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These Golden Nugget winter squash (cucurbita Maxima) are coming along nicely. These are one of my favorite bush habit winter squash. The plants will each produce several bright orange baseball to softball sized fruits. Very sweet flesh, close to sweet potato.

Thanks. I hope yours produce a good yield as well.

I made the incorrect assumption that these Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato acorn squash would have s compact growth habit like other acorn squash, but they started getting out of hand.

Had to build a makeshift squash corral. #veggiegardening #vegetablegardening #wintersquash #diy

My first ever Canestrino di Lucca and Super Sioux sauce tomatoes are forming. These are both experimental varieties for me. Fingers crossed. #veggiegardening #Tomatoes