SYMZF Seeks SYFZF for Romance and More

This blog post is rated PG-13 for mildy sexual content.

I never thought I'd become the Dr. Ruth of zucchini, but it looks like that's where this is going. If you read yesterday's post, you know my zucchini are having problems in the garden version of a bedroom.

So, I went out bright and early this morning when the zucchini flowers were open and before it started to rain. To my disappointment, there were only two open flowers and they were both male:

My Two Zucchini Boys

I can see they are male because they have stamens rather than pistils. Some flowers have both (likely to the dismay of the Christian right), but zucchini flowers have one or the other.

There were a few tightly closed flowers that also looked male as there were no swollen zucchinis-to-be on the business end of them.

Since there are also some new buds waiting to bloom, I decided to cut off the two male flowers, bag them and refrigerate them for the day when I get a female flower to pollinate. I could eat them as flowers, deep fried or stuffed and baked, but I decided to wait it out in hopes of getting real zucchini that I intend to use for my famous zucchini bread with chocolate chips.