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On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:20:00 -0700, Todd > wrote:

>On 07/27/2013 10:32 AM, Billy wrote:
>> In article >, Todd >
>> wrote:

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>>> Hmmmm. Last year, the CSA farmer had me add their bat poop
>>> and worm casing compost/amendment and a lot of water,
>>> then I got my two week bumper crop. Frustrating, before
>>> that, the plants grew like hell, lots of flowers, but
>>> very, very little fruit.

>>
>> Excess water, and fertilizer tells your plant that it is an endless
>> summer, and that they can grow, and grow, because there is no rush.
>> Cutting back on fertilizer, and water tells the plants that summer is
>> coming to an end, and that it had better produce seed (fruit), if it
>> wants to survive.


Actually the changing weather and shorter days plays a bigger role.

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>
>Thank you. I will be careful.
>
>> Franken Carp? Like Franken Food: GMO?

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>No, I am just insulting the things. Koi or domesticated common
>carp (Cyprinus carpio) eat, poop and poop and poop and poop, add
>tons of nitrogen to the water, cause algae blooms, starve off
>the oxygen from the water, and make things miserable on trout.
>
>Someone, probably thinking they were settings them free, released
>a bunch of them in one of my favorite urban fishing ponds. The
>word is to catch and kill. (There are a lot of trash can around
>the pond.)
>
>Much better just to unceremoniously flush them down the toilet
>or give them to a farmer with a pond. There their excess pooping
>an be put to good use.
>
>And, Koi and UGLY too, hence the term "Franken Carp".
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>>>> Eat them small, and stop terrorizing your neighbors.
>>>
>>> Where is the fun in that! How did you know, by the way?

>>
>> It's that time of the year, when people start locking doors to their
>> homes, and vehicles, because they know that gardeners will be dumping
>> zuchs.

>
>You know you live in a small town when you have to lock your car
>doors when you visit your neighbors, or you will find your back seat
>filled with zucchini.
>
>By the way, I am still waiting for that abundance of zukes
>everyone keeps telling me about. And, yes, I do have friends
>that would lie to me like that.
>