From: snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 5/17/2020 9:18 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:   
   > In article , snag_one@msn.com says...   
   >>   That's all history and things have turned around and we're going   
   >> gangbusters here now . We have 19 tomato seedlings doing well , the   
   >> green beans (blue lake pole variety on a 5 foot tall trellis) are a   
   >> couple of inches tall . The cuke and zuke and acorn squash hills all   
   >> have seedlings now , and the salad greens I planted a few days ago are   
   >> coming   
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   > I have a queston about the squash.   
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   > I put some squash seeds on the "paper machay' type seed cups and used   
   > the potting material that I use for tomato seeds.  About half of the   
   > squash seeds came up.  A friend had some squash seeds that he put in   
   > some potting pods and out of 12 pods, none of them came up.  He later   
   > put seeds from the same package out in the garden and they came up.   
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   > Is there something about the potting mix that the squash seeds do not   
   > like ?  Maybe they need to just be put in the garden soil ?   
      
      I've never started squash seeds indoors . BUT every time I've used   
   those peat pots has been a disaster . Same with the little discs that   
   grow into a little "pod" when you wet them . It's probably not your   
   potting soil .   
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   > For tomatoes I started some inside and the plants were about 18 inches   
   > tall.  Put some  outside after the first week of April. April 17 is the   
   > average last frost date for the middle of NC.  The forcast was for no   
   > lower than 40 deg at night for the week before.  Then in the 2nd week of   
   > March some areas around here had frost.  I tried something I read about   
   > and put a lot of water during the day around the tomatoes.  The 6 larger   
   > and 8 smaller ones made it without any problem.   
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      My seedlings were out on the deck getting more sunlight , I have   
   problems with plants getting tall and spindly sitting in the window .   
   That part of the deck is enclosed with plastic so I can use it for   
   construction related work . I knew it was going to freeze , so I put the   
   seedlings all in a box with a gallon jug of water to help moderate the   
   temps , but it wasn't quite enough and a few plants got frosted .   
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