The part that freaks me out about hand pollination is this, "Flowers open early in the day and are receptive for only one day. When hand pollinating, it's important to use only the freshly opened flowers."

Receptive for only one day? What, you ladies have headaches? ;P

Seriously, I need to just make sure we have more bees back there. I don't want my squash, cantalope and cucumbers to go south. The squash blossoms I can use for other purposes (hubby makes a mean stuffed blossom!), the others not-so-much...