My three zucchini plants have been producing lots of flowers already, but no visible fruits yet.
Why?
Skinny stem and flower at the end is male. Only females bear fruits.
I thought of helping them through hand pollination. I follow Bonnie Plants on Facebook and read most of their gardening tips.
Last Saturday, I brought a cotton bud with me when I visited our backyard garden, but I didn't see any female flowers.Yes, there were flowers but all were male. Cotton buds or soft water color brushes can be used as a tool to pollinate flowers if bees aren't frequent in your garden.
Yesterday, while watering them, I saw female flowers in all three for the first time.
Fatter stem and a flower is female.
These tiny fruits aren't out of the woods yet. I hope the gophers, rabbits and squirrels will LEAVE THEM ALONE!
The mister will be adding more beds soon for more varieties of vegetables! Yay!
By the way, we had our second mini harvest of our tomatoes yesterday.
3 comments:
the tomatoes look pretty.
I didn't know there are male and female zucchini. this is good to know.
didn't know too until i read about it. next time, i will plant also those plants that attract bees because i need bees for pollination. :D
Wow! You harvested your own tomatoes and they must be sweeter than normal. I remembered harvesting my own cucumbers when I was a small child and ate them happily. Thanks for sharing about the male and female zucchini!! I am really a hill billies in gardening.
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