Thanks, everyone for your responses. I've grown other veggies quite successfully, but this is my first year with summer squash. I'll just sit back and wait for the fruits to come along. In the mean time I'll enjoy the male blooms. By the way a great stuffing for squash blossoms is to simply process raw shrimp, peeled and deveined, in a food processor, season as you like, (salt, pepper, and some Old Bay Seafood seasoning is great) and some liquid (water, shrimp or chicken stock, or a bit of white wine) to maintain moistness in the final stuffing.

Woww...how lucky you're, Lisa :) I'm quite sure your pic is the same species, Bromelia humilis, too, but only the plant in FBG seem to grow vigorously than mine. Are they in the ground or more shade position ? BTW, my plant gonna open flowers tomorrow, I'll show you. Also, one of my Crypt. 'High Voltage', a Jim Irvin's hybrid, as a compliment from our friend, Dr. Larry is blooming, so I'll try to cross by bringing pollen from Bromelia to put on Crypt's exposed-stigma. x Cryptmelia might be created :^))

Karyn, bells might work unless they keep ringing them too long and then my neighbor's dog will start barking like he does anytime he hears so much as a leaf fall! I will try to fasten the metal screen/fencing to the pond somehow after I get more fish. Have read where herons love ponds. Funny about rounding up minks for a coat! Kristy, thanks, but I did find a bulb of the EE -- think it was called Black Mask, and a couple of the epi orchids. Whoa Moonie, I can just see you trying to act like the turtle you had was not that kid's, lol! My pond continue during the winter. The WH get smaller as do the waterlilies, and the fish slow down, but they do swim up to the surface. Guess we all, back then, had no body fat, LOL! Tj, you were brave. I couldn't see myself handling a trap unless it was totally enclosed where I couldn't see the animal. I would probably not be able to put it in my car to drive somewhere else for fear it would get out in my car, LOL! However, I would have no problem in a trap that would instantly kill the varmint! Marian, great to see you post! Miss you around here. So, you don't think the bells would work? I could get some with different tones, LOL! Thanks for the offer; my waterlilies and water hyacinths pretty much survive each year. Thanks all.

it can easily be propagated .. so you can significantly shorten the ugly old vines.. and make vibrant new plants with them ... and if you have a window ... once you get the new plants going.. if you can put the pot in the window.. then it will generate energy for the plant to vine all around ... remember.. a new piece.. is the old plant.. you are just rejuvenating it ... and you can make many extras to give as gifts ... ken https://yippy.com/ysa/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3aproject=yippy-com-images&v%3asources=yippy-video&query=propagate%20pathos&