Has anyone else had variegated leaves on there squashes like this without buying ornamental seed?
The fruits are setting fine and swelling. The plant is a turban winter squash.
The bed is slightly raised with clay block walls that supported dual wall sheets for frost protection allowing for an early start without transplant stress.
The planting is alternate summer squash and vine producing winter squash.
Reassuringly the leaves are less variegated close to the base of the plant between the summer squashes and in the afternoon shade to the east of the bed so the plant appears to "know what it is doing".
I have a second variegated plant in a later bed that was not covered that is a couple of weeks behind so we will see what that does.
There was one seedling that came up completely yellow that got no further than the first two non true leaves before shrivelling away.
The fruits are setting fine and swelling. The plant is a turban winter squash.
The bed is slightly raised with clay block walls that supported dual wall sheets for frost protection allowing for an early start without transplant stress.
The planting is alternate summer squash and vine producing winter squash.
Reassuringly the leaves are less variegated close to the base of the plant between the summer squashes and in the afternoon shade to the east of the bed so the plant appears to "know what it is doing".
I have a second variegated plant in a later bed that was not covered that is a couple of weeks behind so we will see what that does.
There was one seedling that came up completely yellow that got no further than the first two non true leaves before shrivelling away.
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