Zucchini Growing Tips

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ZUCCHINI GROWING TIPS

 

If you're looking to start your own zucchini garden

you are a little late for this year. But don't give

up! If you plan now you'll be swimming in zucchinis by

this time next year.

Once it gets established in your garden the stuff

grows like a weed.

 

Firstly, zucchinis and summer squash need lots of

sun in order to produce fruits. In cool summer

climates, zucchini will need full sun, and in areas

that receive lots of spring and summertime rain,

well-drained soil is necessary.

 

As far as soil quality goes, zucchinis are very

forgiving.

 

Start from seeds after all chance of frost has passed,

or buy plantlets from a nursery. You will find that

more choice is available if you start from seeds.

Normally, nurseries only carry a few types of summer

squash. The problem with buying a packet of seeds is

that if you start them all (normally a seed packet

contains up to 40 seeds), you will have far too many

plants, and the resulting fruits will send you into a

frenzy of desperately trying to unload pounds of

zucchini on your friends.

 

Only start a few. Sow two or three seeds in a group. A

family of three should find 3 or 4 groups of zucchini

plants plenty.

 

Plan to space the plants about 1 meter apart from one

another because their leaves get huge. Use an organic

mixture of fertilizer and dig in a few handfuls of

dolomite lime to provide calcium.

 

Plant deeply - each seed should be planted about 3

inches deep. This makes for a strong, drought-tolerant

plant. Don't water heavily until the seeds have

sprouted.

 

Summer Squash need about 65 frost-free, good gardening

days in order to mature. The most important thing to

remember about growing zucchini is that it should be

picked young, when it is no more than 2 inches in

diameter. It just tastes better that way and contains

fewer, smaller seeds.

Picking it young will also encourage the plant to

produce more zucchini.

 

Waste not, want not! The beautiful orange flowers of

the zucchini plant are also edible and quite delicious

when breaded and deep-fried, or used to perk up a

boring salad.

 

 

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