Re: male flowers

If you go to a fine dining restaurant you can get these as an appetizer.  The key is a very young flower that has not opened yet.  Sometimes you can even get the female squash with flower attached (in a very small form, usually a summer squash or pati-pan squash) which is battered and then deep fried.  The key is to have a very young flower.  Also, I would not even consider eating the male or female flowers as I had described from the pumpkin patch, too many chemicals to be safe.  Unless you had a completely organic garden method I would not consider it.
 
David
Sterling, MA
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From: d*@hotmail.com
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Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: male flowers

ok. So what part of the male flower do you eat?  The whole thing?




Mr. Bojangles/Kenny G./Dzywiak
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To: p*@hort.net
Subject: Re: male flowers
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:44:08 EDT
In a message dated 7/30/2002 4:26:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dzywiak@hotmail.com writes:
> I really hate to ask, but what is a "male flower"? I like eggs, flour and
> butter so it sounds good.
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Hold your pinkie finger up! If the inside of the blossom looks like that it
is a male. It has male pollen all over it.
How hold all 5 of your fingers together and look at it. The inside of the
female looks like that. The key is it has a pumpkin (baby behind it). I get
up in the morning and look for male blossoms on a good plant and pick at
least 3 before I go do artificial insemination.
First I take the outer edges off the bloom about 1 to 2" inches back then I
thump the male blossom with my finger (just like you are flicking something
between your thumb and first finger). After that I pull the rest of the
pedals off and gently wipe the rest of the pollen around the female blooms
center. I do this several times then cover the female blossom, and hope for
the best.
If you look out in the garden that night and your female blossom has a glow
from a cigarette, You Did Good!
Good Luck
Bill Garvey
White Lake, Michigan

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