Trellis Use

I am going to try growing the candy roaster squash on the trellis. I removed the bean vines today, so it might as well be useful. This will keep the squash vines off the ground (more aeration, less insect access) and out of the way of the lawnmower. I'm sure the trellis won't be enough room, but it will help.  Hopefully this will encourage flying pollinators to check out the blooms, too.  I also moved some mature marigolds to the squash planter.

The greens I covered seem to be doing OK, so I think it might be helping.

One of the butterfly milkweeds put out more blooms. Hoping this is a good sign that it is successfully getting established.  I don't know if I will try it again if it fails again this year. I think it is finicky about the amount of water it gets, so the soil might not be best for it, plus it's in shade a lot of the summer.  The sun has swung around enough to give it more light as the days progress towards fall, so that may also be helping.

A volunteer Spanish Needles (Bidens alba) has appeared just outside of the native plant bed.  Pollinators love it, so I'm happy to see it, although it may go crazy.  I might try to move it into the native bed when it goes dormant around frost time.