Hand-pollinating Zucchini & Cucumber plants

Over the summer, I learned how to hand-pollinate zucchini and cucumber plants.  My cucumbers and zucchinis would flower, the vegetable would begin to grow and when they got to be about an inch long, my cucumbers and zucchinis would turn brown, dry up and fall off.  This kept happening, so I did some research and found that they were not getting pollinated.

I learned that I could pick the stamina (covered in pollen) off the male flowers and rub them around in the female flowers to get some of the pollen in there.

I waited a few days after attempting this and noticed that my cucumbers and zucchinis were not falling off.  A week or two later, I had full size cucumbers and zucchinis!  You can only pollinate the female cucumber flowers with the pollen from the male cucumber flower and the female zucchini flowers with the pollen from the male zucchini flowers.   I am pretty sure this would work with other squash type plants too!