There’s something quietly alarming about a garden full of lush, flowering squash and cucumber vines that produces almost no fruit. The vines look healthy. The flowers are opening right on schedule.

What eager little Romeos they are. So full of hope, so anxious to perform for the ladies. Yet most of them will die unfulfilled. Ah, sex in the garden. It can be more illuminating than a porn video on ...

Q: My friends are giving me grief because I can’t grow zucchini or other squashes. I get female flowers and I have male flowers too. We seem to have insects around enough to pollinate other plants.