Category: Tips for growing zucchini

Zucchini is a easy and fast growing delicious squash with variety of shapes and colors. This vine crops grow most vigorously in warm weather, full sun and compost rich, well-drained soil. Zucchini plant take up relatively little space and produce large amounts of delicious squash. If you choose to grow your zucchini from seeds or from transplants, individually or grouped on hills. If you choose to start seeds indoors best time to sow is 2 to 4 weeks before last spring frost, but direct seeding is better because vine crop can be damaged in transplanting. To provide air circulation and discourage disease avoid too much zucchini, you can achieve that by planting 2-3 seeds 36 inches apart and about an inch deep. Zucchini flowers are typically pollinated by bees from male flowers to female ones. Harvest zucchini when is young and tender for the best flavor. Harvest often and don't left large ones on vine, because yield will decline or harvest when vines are wet, because that is the common way for diseases to spread.