Gardening & Landscaping
OctoberBrideNYC
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Zucchini Flowers/Squash Blossoms
Not sure if this post belongs on What's Cooking or here, so I'm posting on both. DH and I planted a vegetable garden for the first time and we're growing zucchini. The flowers are out now and ripe for the picking (to cook, YUM), but if we pick them, does that mean a zucchini won't grow there? Does the flower have to fall off on its own to ensure that a zucchini will grow in it's place? TIA!
Re: Zucchini Flowers/Squash Blossoms
zuc's have 2 types of flowers: boy flowers & girl flowers. You can tell the girl flowers b/c at the base of the flower (really, right behind it) is kind of a bulb which will, if pollinated, develop into a zuc.
usually the boy flowers come out first with gusto & then a more even mix of girl & boy flowers. since the boy flowers do not produce zuc, you can use those, especially if there are not girl flowers around. If there are girl flowers & you still want to pick the boy ones, you can hand pollinate the girls, and then pick the (already-used-the-pollen) boy flowers.
Oh, man. I have to check under the hood for boy and girl parts!??! LOL! I think I'll just see what happens. I'd rather have the zucchini than the blossoms.
Thanks for the info! I never knew that!