Squash in the manure pile

[Soundguy]

Even if it was imported, apparently not a deal breaker either.

 

[teejk]

Could also be from a rotten squash that a bird/animal planted for you. We have domestic red raspberries behind my shop that until a few years was forest...

 

[Birdhunter1]

I moved a few bucket loads from my manure pile a few years ago to plant a flower bed, a few weeks after where I sliced the weed fabric to plant flowers I had noticed a plant shoot up that looked like a tomato plant.
Turns out it was and my wife had really nice grape tomatos right off the back porch.

 

[RSKY]

The reason old timers had pigs in the stables with the cows was that the pigs ate the corn, etc. that passed thru the cattle.

 

[ustmd]

We've come to realize the full sun, all day long, is bad for a garden here. Morning sun for half the day seems to be ideal. We've now started planting fruit trees along the Western side of our raised beds to provide more shade over our veggie garden.

We have found that as well. For most everything, that Central TX afternoon sun in June just cooks most plants.

 

[teejk]

And nobody is going to post the obvious..."this squash tastes like s***". Seems to me that the perfect spot to germinate seeds would be in a cow manure pile...fertilizer, heat, etc. Horse is highly alkaline. Poultry more so I think (that ammonia smell). Guessing pigs rate pretty high also.