Occam’s Razor Gardening, Cooking & Canning Ep 45

Welcome. The potatoes have survived the flea beetles and the mild dawn soap spray has gotten rid of the crawling portion of this pest, hopefully before larvae have gotten into the soil. And the Japanese Beetle Trap is working to keep that pest off the Raspberries, who I’ve also seen crawling on other vegetation in the Garden, trying to figure out if it’s tasty enough.

The Squashes and Zucchini seem to be suffering from the same ailment: Sex. There seems to be a definite lack of polinators this year so I’m going to have to sex the Zucchini flowers as soon as I see them in the morning. Same for squash.

It can only be three things:

Lack of Calcium, and I have been putting crushed egg shells in every year for 2 years but it takes 3 – 5 years for it to be released in the soil, but I do feed the garden with chem free plant food including calcium.

Irregular watering, which only occurs when I wait for a rain storm that doesn’t happen overnight which gets the garden water in the early morning.

No pollination, caused by a pest closing up the flower, which is not happening this year, or no pollinators, where the flower closes up and the gourd/fruit starts but ceases with no signal to produce seed.

I’m going to have to sex my plants. WTH is going on? Where are the pollinators?

Butch still lives, the front box continues to grow into the jungle it will become by the end of July.

The Bird Shit Berry Bush is starting to wind down, so the raspberry bush will now start contributing, hopefully having been saved from the Nippon menace. Batch # 3 is out on vid: https://rumble.com/v6vr3fd-jam-3rd-batch-bird-sht-berry-bush-occams-razor-gardening-cooking-and-cannin.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_a

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