Thursday, August 26, 2010

From the garden in August...what else? Zucchini


I planted six zucchini starts at the end of July. Just add water and sun and voilĂ !

The plants started flowering about eight days ago. The first flowers were all male. Then a day of all female. Finally, both male and female flowers appeared on the same day. Now, I awake each morning to do my job as zucchini pollinator. I'm not going to leave the job of making sure the flowers are pollinated to the bees. I find the male flower and introduce the pollen to the female flower. Today I was greeted with four lovely specimens. Dinner vegetable tonight, zucchini.

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