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butternut, Cape Porcupine, earthworms, Flowers, food, home grown, organic, plants, pollination, Red Wriggler, vegetable garden, Vegetables from scraps
A few months ago I conditioned my Grow Zone with lashings of Worm Compost. As usual I had the normal tomato and Paw Paw seeds spout, which I weeded out, as I had enough already. These sprouts may also be transplanted into more suitable locations, to grow into mature plants. I had this butternut which sprouted and I moved it.It soon started growing lushly. I started to notice that all the female flowers just dropped off. So I when I noticed a female flower open, I would pollinate it from a male flower by hand. I managed to successfully pollinate 2 flowers. This is the result. This butternut weighs in 1,1 kg. I have harvested it a little early because Our resident Cape Porcupine (Mrs Schnoof) is finding it very hard to resist. She is gnawing away at my grow zone.
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Hi Bridget, what do you use to keep the pumpkin fly at bay? I am harvesting nothing growing on vines at the moment. It gets stung and it rots. Congrats on the 30 000 views!
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Hi Rider, I have not had pumpkin fly at all, just a lot of ants. Sorry to hear you are having problems with the vines. I always say that a healthy plant would be able to overcome attacks from pests… so maybe you have to feed with more worm compost… 😀
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