Friday, July 24, 2009

You CAN be too rich! (in nitrogen).


I broke my camera. I need a new one, but I am terrified. People start talking and I want to run away and hide. All I ask is an idiot proof camera that will do absolutely anything and have full manual over-ride (totally battery independent) and cost less than 200 and have macro without having to mess around changing lenses. Oh yes and do shaky hand correction and horizon corrector....... OK I took this pic from the inside of a squash plant with my video cam ....
On my last post I admitted that my garden isn't up to much. It looks almost frighteningly splendid with squash plants as tall as I am with leaves the size of a Dutch umbrella but almost no squash resulting from the enormous, bee loaded blossoms. I thought it was the extreme heat shriveling the fertilized blossoms before the fruit set, but I stumbled on what is probably the True Cause while looking for something else on the net. Too much nitrogen! Well too bad. I like my lush and riotous garden, and it is producing squash, daisies, tomatoes, zinnias, cucumbers, basil, beans, corn, cosmos, artichokes both Jerusalem and regular, sunflowers, carrots, potatoes, beets, turnips etc and including purslane and even two bunches of grapes from my brand new vines. I am one person, and there is enough for one. The fact that there should be enough for a whole lot more shouldn't matter. I remember those heaps of zucchini on the table in all employee coffee rooms I ever was in in the late summer. Since I can't stand waste, at least I don't have that problem! Excuse me, I must prepare a salad and make some pesto .......

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