Zucchini

I have 2 Zucchini and 1 yellow squash plants. Only one Zucchini plant is doing good. It flowers well but because of non-pollination, not a good amount of zucchinis. I have got 4 so far that too hand pillinated ones. And moreover both the male and female flowers are not opening at the same time. The plant is huge with lovely bright yellow flowers. I am not going to plant these next year, time for experimenting with some other veggies.

First Zucchini!

I hand pollinated the flowers last week and now I have a Zucchini! How exciting! It grew so fast. We can't wait to taste.

Zucchini

I have 2 Zucchini plants given to me by a co-worker. They started slow, we don't have any zucchini yet but there have been some flowers. All we need now is some bees/insects to pollinate. May be I will try hand pollination to see if it works. I also saw a cutworm when the plants were small so I surrounded the plants with foil. I read that in one of the blogs that it confuses them and they leave the plant alone. Hopefully we'll get some Zucchinis soon.