Why, when and how to prune squash plants. It is not a prerequisite that you need to prune squash plants, they will grow ...

That is where squash companion planting can help. There is a good selection of vegetables, herbs, and flowers that will ensure your squash plants develop healthily and reduce the risk of pest ...

Don’t miss the fleeting season for zucchini flowers or squash blossoms. These floppy flowers are easy to spot at the farmers markets in the summer. Sunny orange in color and delicate as tissue ...

“Some of them prefer cooking with zucchini blossoms — which have more of a pointy edge, almost like a king’s crown — but the squash flowers are bigger, poufier. You can fit a little more ...

Q. Why do my squash vines only have male blossoms? Squash plants normally have both male and female flowers. The female flowers tend to form close to the base or center of the plant and the male ...

Make sure soil is kept moist to a four-inch depth. That being said, often early in the season, squash flowers are all male or all female. When flowers are all female, the small fruit that’s ...

Tickling your tomato blossoms and brushing your squash flowers probably aren’t regular tasks on your gardening to-do list, but it turns out that hand pollination, in league with natural ...

Most kinds of squash are brightly colored — like fruit — but taste mild or savory — like vegetables. Fruits contain seeds and develop from the flowers of a plant. On the other hand ...

The image of honeybees clasping at squash flowers might suggest a simple exchange in pollination services. The reality is that pollination can be complex and nuanced, depending on the flower to be ...

He knows that if he starts early, he can find male squash bees sleeping within the collapsed husks of yesterday’s squash flowers. Cane is a research entomologist. He’s spent much of his career as a ...