My pleasure! I've really enjoyed what little time I've spent on the page I linked you today. I'd not gotten around to finding a list like that before, and one of the silverbacks at the beekeepers meeting last night said he'd bring lists NEXT month, so I was ecstatic to find such a good *local* page on the first try.
I was teaching the hubby about squash pollination just this morning based on what I learned from Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth - we'd not realized the dying ovaries on the hubbard were merely unfertilized not having realized there were gendered flowers. We're much less concerned than we were before - phew! He suggested a paintbrush, but I've seen enough bee activity (big black carpenter kind yesterday morning - it's so easy to see the pollen transfer when they're big and glossy black!) that I think we'll be fine. Besides, if I were to hand pollinate, I'd just grab a handful of stamens and use them directly what with our squash blossoms being so big.
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I was teaching the hubby about squash pollination just this morning based on what I learned from Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth - we'd not realized the dying ovaries on the hubbard were merely unfertilized not having realized there were gendered flowers. We're much less concerned than we were before - phew! He suggested a paintbrush, but I've seen enough bee activity (big black carpenter kind yesterday morning - it's so easy to see the pollen transfer when they're big and glossy black!) that I think we'll be fine. Besides, if I were to hand pollinate, I'd just grab a handful of stamens and use them directly what with our squash blossoms being so big.