Teeny Weenie Zucchini

The first little zucchinis have formed on the plants, but one should not count their zucchinis before they hatch. The first of any squash plant frequently dies on the vine. The zucchinis aforementioned have huge blossoms still, which means they have not been pollinated. There are no male flowers on that plant, but the plant next to it has plenty. Hopefully the bees will do their job. Whenever there is a tiny squash, perfectly formed, that just dries up and falls off without maturing, it is because it was not pollinated.

The paragraph above was written Friday. Since then the little zucchinis have grown to about 4”. The still have the blooms. We do not care for monster zucchinis so they will be picked when the bloom falls off. Incidentally The spaghetti squash now has one female blossom that is beginning to swell. The rest of the blossoms seem to be male so there is hope.

Michael’s 2nd hive of bees was picked up on Saturday. The best part of picking up bees was talking to Wayne Hanson, who is and extremely talented beekeeper. The first hive of my bees was still being fed and had an extra super with a queen excluder. After talking to Wayne the queen excluder and the feeder were removed. The reasons for that will be discussed in the next post.



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