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<blockquote data-quote="THAT Gurl" data-source="post: 4078535" data-attributes="member: 45551"><p>Well hell, everybody already said what I was gonna say ... EXCEPT ...</p><p></p><p>My squash does better in raised beds than it does in the ground here but I suspect it's because my entire yard is the sandiest loam I have ever seen. In fact, I think there is probably about 1% loam -- and I'm being generous with a whole 1%.</p><p></p><p>All that said, I do have to go out of my way (like get a paintbrush) and manually transfer pollen from the male to female flowers. Dunno why but it's just always been that way here. Same thing with the tomato plants -- I have to shake the stems and make the pollen fall.</p><p></p><p>That's one of the reasons I'm putting in a pollinator garden around the outside perimeter of the front yard (where my raised beds are). Hopefully next spring I won't have to run around giving the tomato and squash plants help doing what they should be doing on their own with the birds and the bees. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging :person_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="THAT Gurl, post: 4078535, member: 45551"] Well hell, everybody already said what I was gonna say ... EXCEPT ... My squash does better in raised beds than it does in the ground here but I suspect it's because my entire yard is the sandiest loam I have ever seen. In fact, I think there is probably about 1% loam -- and I'm being generous with a whole 1%. All that said, I do have to go out of my way (like get a paintbrush) and manually transfer pollen from the male to female flowers. Dunno why but it's just always been that way here. Same thing with the tomato plants -- I have to shake the stems and make the pollen fall. That's one of the reasons I'm putting in a pollinator garden around the outside perimeter of the front yard (where my raised beds are). Hopefully next spring I won't have to run around giving the tomato and squash plants help doing what they should be doing on their own with the birds and the bees. 🤷 [/QUOTE]
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