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I am trying to grow pumking and squash next year and i know that their big plants and so i am planning to grow them in the same patch, however i amd afraid they will cross pollinate. I already know that coulkd transfer diseases to each other but what about pollination
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I wouldn't worry about cross polination unless you want to collect the seeds.I suspect on most allotments most squashes are cross polinated
Bloke on the next plot to me planted them all together with no probs
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They will be fine, I grew my squashes all together last year, no problem. Just remember like Pies said, dont save the seed from your crop to use next year as they will not come true.Comment
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thanks for that
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Lokking at some of the strange shape bsn's I had this year I'm sure ther e was a bit of cross pollination going on but they still tasted ok.S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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Saving any cucurbit seeds is dodgy unless you take steps to make sure they do not cross pollinate. The fruits you get from the 'mother' plants will be fine to eat, its the children that will be mixed parentage. I would love to have the room to plant saved seeds from these just to see what I'd get from flowers that could have 'mated' with cucumbers, marrows, squashes of pumpkins!I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
Now a little Shrinking Violet.
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Although each of these will mate within species, they won't mate across ie a cucumber won't mate with a squash so it's not quite as bad as that.Originally posted by BarleySugar View Post
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