John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com answers your gardening questions including his favorite books for urban gardening, How do your dragon egg cucumbers taste, what should I be growing right now in my climate, and how much does it cost to set up a garden
Vegetable Gardening
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I have a few zucchini and lemon cucumber plants and they started to flower a few weeks ago but have not started producing fruit yet. Is this because they were not pollenated? My typical cucumber plant has already been producing.
@mtrimboli he means when the plant starts to reproduce or Pollination of the plant also known as flowering (the late stage)
John, I finally built my raised beds. Only 3 of them to start. They are 4 x 6 x 22", waist high for me. I can't wait to start planting and then juicing! I have the juiceman juicer but want to get an auger juicer like you use. Once I have a job I will get one from you on your other sit. You truelly are an insperation to many people. I pray you have a good peaceful life. I love your enthusiasm for growing green!
basically, many plant goes thru a lifecycle, it starts as a seed. (ie: summer season) Then it grows small leave,the it gets bigger and has larger leaves (this is when it is most useful for food), then later in life, it goes to flower, and makes less leaves, then it goes to seed (end of lifecycle) and in this stage, is not really useful for food, unless your growing to eat the seeds.
that could be a reason. there are other reasons as well.
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hey john, have you ever tried growing a mangsoteen?
no. I generally will not invest the time in growing something that will not fruit/thrive here in my sub-tropical climate.. If I lived in florida or hawaii, I would.. That being said, I still "screw around" when I have the seeds. I ate a fresh jackfruit, and put the seeds in a pot and watered… so do I have some jackfruit seeds that have sprouted into small plants.
I'm so glad I subscribed to you. Thank you for all of this information. I'll probably order Square-Foot Gardening, Perrenial Vegetables, and Four-Season Gardening.
LOL, school of hard knocks book is mine, too. Found that growing cherry tomatoes in Miracle Gro was a NO GO! It did better in regular soil. The MG tomatoes were tasteless. I used the same plant that was growing in the MG and planted it in good organic soil. It gave tomatoes that were scrumptous. It definitely was the soi.. You were right about the SOHKs book. (thumbs up)