Garden 2011

footfootfoot · 05-27-2011, 11:25 AM

Some plants, like zukes and cukes, when they get a fruit that big send a "mission accomplished" signal and they start to shut down and die. That's why you want to keep picking the fruit and dead-heading flowers. Then the plant sends the "Drat! Curses, foiled again" signal and keeps on producing. It could also be their sheer lack of will or that they really don't like you very much. hard to say.

In ohter news I got a dozen strawberry plants in, and will do about 20 more later today or tomorrow.

05-27-2011, 11:25 AM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Some plants, like zukes and cukes, when they get a fruit that big send a "mission accomplished" signal and they start to shut down and die. That's why you want to keep picking the fruit and dead-heading flowers. Then the plant sends the "Drat! Curses, foiled again" signal and keeps on producing. It could also be their sheer lack of will or that they really don't like you very much. hard to say. In ohter news I got a dozen strawberry plants in, and will do about 20 more later today or tomorrow. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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