Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Happy Together: flowers and vegetables

It's late July, and the many annual and perennial flowers in bloom bring lots of bees to the garden, which in turn pollinate the vegetables. My only question is how do people harvest squash blossoms? Mine are always full of bees! Sometimes they get trapped inside the flowers when they close at dusk, and I find and release them (now a bit groggy from the cool night air and lack of food) in the morning when I pick the squash.