Posts Tagged as ‘disease’

August 1, 2008

the squash mystery

A mystery is casting a pall over the farm. (OK, fine, that’s not a pall, that’s my shadow. I didn’t want to post more depressing pictures of dead squash, can you blame me?)
Anyway, our squash continue to die: the ones that were wilting are now flat-lined into the soil. A post-mortem [...]

July 24, 2008

the fate of the squash

The squash are our hope for the future: we have hundreds and hundreds of them planted. Delicata, acorn, kuri, butternut, various varieties of pumpkins, not to mention our zucchini, yellow crooknecks, canteloupes and melons. We went big on the winter squash, thinking it a particularly useful crop: since they store so [...]