Zucchini

Last month when the zucchini plants started flowering I posted about Squash Blossoms. The female flowers on the zucchini produce the fruit while the male flowers are pollinators. The male flowers can be picked and stuffed with cheese or rice or veggies. They can be lightly sauteed or dipped in batter and fried.

This year something very unusual has happened with the Zucchini plants. Normally, you get ten to fifty times the amount of male flowers to female flowers. But this year, the ratio is reversed. We have way more female flowers than male flowers. This could cause for less zucchini fruit to set, but in this case, we're getting tons of zucchini, just no male flowers.