Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

We are here for our final episode of this fourth inaugural series with Coled the Plant

Charmer, the founder of Ingenious Farm.

So we're talking about growing squash the Ingenious Way.

Squash is one Coled that we haven't talked with you about on prior episodes.

And so, you know, we did just talk about melons.

I have a hint that maybe some of the tips may be semi-similar, but I could be wrong.

So what do you have to share with us about growing squash?

Okay, squash is kind of, it's a cucumber bit.

So kind of like cucumbers or melons, they're probably the same family.

So they have common techniques or tips that you can use.

But more specific to squash, we all grew zucchini, which is the most obvious one of them.

So squash, zucchini, or not the vining type, but so zucchini, you probably grow a lot

of it in your garden and there's all these jokes going around like, wow, I'm overloaded

with zucchini and all this, but zucchini is so much better when it's smaller.

So harvest it when it's small, it stays here, and the plant will just keep pumping them out.

The plant will adapt to your technique.

So the more you harvest small zucchini, the more flowers the plant is going to produce.

Because remember, what you're doing is preventing it from reproducing and it's trying to reproduce.

So it's going to adjust its strategy and divide its energy.

It's one of the few cases where letting the plant divide its energy and many fruits is

actually beneficial.

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