Vegetables that belong to this group include summer squash, zucchini, winter squash, mirliton, pumpkin, gourd, cucuzza, ...

Have you noticed that your squash plant has two kinds of flowers? The male flowers typically have five fused petals with three to five stamens. The female flowers have three stigma lobes in the center ...

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So we plant the entire fruit, generally with the sprouted seed growing out the bottom end. Many gardeners insist that you need to plant two mirliton fruits, a male and a female, to ensure production.

Q. Why do my squash vines only have male blossoms? Squash plants normally have both male and female flowers. The female flowers tend to form close to the base or center of the plant and the male ...

Question: Our first vegetable garden is growing fast and there are blossoms on the summer squash and cucumber plants. How do we know when the vegetables are ready for harvest? Answer: Congratulations ...

The cucumber family, properly known as the Cucurbitaceae, provides a wide variety of vegetables popular in the summer home vegetable garden. Members of the cucumber family that can be planted now ...