Plant only heat-tolerant vegetables such as cherry tomatoes , hot peppers , lima beans , eggplant , okra , New Zealand spinach , southern peas , and sweet potatoes . Make sure corn has plenty of water during tasseling and silking. This is very important. Male blossoms fall off, littering the ground and causing gardeners to occasionally freak out. You can identify male flowers by their long, skinny stalks.
Female flowers are on a much thicker stalk and have a tiny little squash just behind the flower.
When the squash is pollinated, the fruit gets bigger. Occasionally a female bloom drops off because it wasn't pollinated. Squash blooms are open only for a few hours in the morning, so bees have but a short time to deliver pollen. If you want your squashes properly pollinated, don't apply anything to your vegetable garden that may harm bees.