Showing posts with label squash blossoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label squash blossoms. Show all posts

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Holy Squash Blossom: or Death to All Squirrels!!

I have two "Big Max" pumpkin vines going in my garden.  I wonder if I'll see any of the squash, come October?

Wow.  I have now suffered the ultimate ignominy at the hands of a squirrel.  I walked out to the garden this morning, and saw a squirrel escaping over the garden fence with one of the big yellow blossoms from my pumpkin vine!

I called my sister the horticultural expert, and she informed me that both people and rodents consider "squash blossoms" to be a delicacy.  That's a new one on me.  The only thing I know is that--no blossom, no pumpkin.