Nature is stronger than us
What you maybe can’t tell for sure from the photo, but what is perfectly clear if you see this in real life (in a community garden in SE Portland) is that the fence is not cutting through the squash. The squash is absorbing the fence. It’s growing right around the wire. And thriving. It’s bigger every time I walk past it. In case anyone’s keeping score, I’m rooting for the squash.
Discover more from Cari Luna
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Go Squash go!
Back when I was in university, taking Plant Anatomy as part of my degree, I remember sitting in lab one day while the prof talked about the resilience of plants and how they could adapt and grow in what we would consider to be unsuitable environments… and how completely it changes them.
There are fir trees that grow on mountaintops that everyone assumed were just dwarfed versions of fir trees that grow at ground level. So they brought a seedling down from the mountaintop, assuming that it would grow tall under kinder conditions. It didn’t. The mountaintop trees had changed genetically, even though they seemed like they were the same kind.
I think that’s pretty cool. They had us all fooled.
Go Squash go!
Back when I was in university, taking Plant Anatomy as part of my degree, I remember sitting in lab one day while the prof talked about the resilience of plants and how they could adapt and grow in what we would consider to be unsuitable environments… and how completely it changes them.
There are fir trees that grow on mountaintops that everyone assumed were just dwarfed versions of fir trees that grow at ground level. So they brought a seedling down from the mountaintop, assuming that it would grow tall under kinder conditions. It didn’t. The mountaintop trees had changed genetically, even though they seemed like they were the same kind.
I think that’s pretty cool. They had us all fooled.
Cool – I wonder what kind of squash that is.
Cool – I wonder what kind of squash that is.
So is the squash making a run for it or trying to get in? When my bearded irises were emerging in the spring, one of them had dried leaves left over from last fall covering it. One of the iris leaves grew right through a leaf, like a spear. Leaf and leaf stayed friends all season.
So is the squash making a run for it or trying to get in? When my bearded irises were emerging in the spring, one of them had dried leaves left over from last fall covering it. One of the iris leaves grew right through a leaf, like a spear. Leaf and leaf stayed friends all season.
GO SQUASH!
GO SQUASH!
Aren’t plants amazing – neat photo!
Aren’t plants amazing – neat photo!
Awesome.
I do, however, wonder how that will end. Cut the fence or squash the squash?
Awesome.
I do, however, wonder how that will end. Cut the fence or squash the squash?
I’m rooting for the squash too. Go little squash! You show that fence who the boss is!
I’m rooting for the squash too. Go little squash! You show that fence who the boss is!
The squash will win because they won’t be able to pick it when it’s done growing. Anyway it reminds me of the square melons of japan
The squash will win because they won’t be able to pick it when it’s done growing. Anyway it reminds me of the square melons of japan
The squash will win. There’s a fence on the way to the kids’ school that has part of a big old maple tree branch in it. The tree is gone (the stump is still there) but this branch is still in the tree and the patch of chainlink would need to be removed because it totally engulfs the wire.
Nature is a tough mother…
The squash will win. There’s a fence on the way to the kids’ school that has part of a big old maple tree branch in it. The tree is gone (the stump is still there) but this branch is still in the tree and the patch of chainlink would need to be removed because it totally engulfs the wire.
Nature is a tough mother…
Heh-heh-heh. I had a couple of tomatoes that did this with their wire ladders. I ruined them trying to harvest them, though.
Heh-heh-heh. I had a couple of tomatoes that did this with their wire ladders. I ruined them trying to harvest them, though.