55 days — Also known as ‘Lebanese White Bush’ and ‘White Vegetable Marrow.’ A bush-type summer squash with quick maturing fruits that have an excellent, sweet flavor, weigh one to two pounds and look like small honeydew melons. The flesh is sweet and has been referred to as “the honeydew of squashes.” The rinds cook up well and are easily eaten. Very popular in the Middle East. Survives quickly changing climate variations.
Victory Seeds
I was checking for stink bug eggs and nymphs and there they were. Like magic! The larger one weighs in at a pound and a half.
I walked into the kitchen and said, “It’s time!” Mr. Big Food looked up from the Big Food Manual and Survivalist Flourishing Guide, saw the squash and replied, “We may have to adjust the menu for this week.”
First cherry tomato, too.
Also, first hornworm eggs of the season on the tomatoes. Time to get out the Dipel.
I’ve never seen hornworm eggs…anywhere! Any chance of a photo??
I’ve seen hornworms…pulled some off and threw them in to the neighbors chickens…PANDEMONIUM!!! Apparently chickens think they’re _good_! And I’ve seen the moths they derive from/turn into. You sort of have to kill/remove them as caterpillars because they’re really pretty when they’re moths!
Thought this had some good info:
https://texasbutterflyranch.com/2012/06/21/loathed-by-gardeners-tomato-hornworms-morph-into-magnificent-sphinx-moths/
Doesn’t change the fact that they’ll totally demolish your tomatoes if you don’t control them, but still … !
I’ll never forget my first encounter with hornworms. I think I cried.
So over the years I’ve learned to recognize what the eggs look like. They are about the size of a round pin-head, and translucent like a drop of dew, though some can be very faintly greenish. They lay them singly on the tops and undersides of leave, and on the stems. Indiscriminately. Probably more frequently on undersides, but I’ve no real data on this, just observation.
I think they go through four metamorphises, each worm getting bigger. I can catch a lot in the first stage since the tomato plants themselves are small and it’s easy to see their brown/green scat which has a really cool structure.
OMG. Gardening geek. The structure of hornworm poop.
Stay tuned.