Zucchini plant - How to grow & care

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Zucchini plant grow and care – – herbaceous of the genus Cucurbita also known as Courgette, Zucchini plant annual plant, grow as shrub, semi vine, vine or creeping vine, can grow in mediterranean, desert, subtropical, temperate or tropic climate and growing in hardiness zone 4+, need to take care that there is enough hot days in order to bear fruits or to plant the right cultivar.

Leaves color green in round or heart shape with lobes.

Flower edible in yellow color with five lobs, female contain semi fruits that looks like a little Courgette plant, and male flower are smaller.

Zucchini edible vegetable

Fruit of Courgette plant picked up when it’s unripe before it’s fully grown, peel is green yellow, orange sometimes stripes, the shape can be oval, round or the structure rough sometimes cause incontinence to human skin, inside the fruit is light green.

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How to grow Zucchini growing requirements and care:

Mulch keep the moist of the soil and also protect the fruits

How to care:
watering on the ground and not watering on the leaves or the fruits, the vine species need trellising

What is the best way to start growing?
Seedling / Seed (explanation bellow)

Is it necessary to graft or use vegetative reproduction?
No, possible to graft for better base that will be resistant for virus

Difficulties or problems when growing:
Attacked easily, when the plant attacked in the base if not treatment well it will die

Planting season:
Spring to summer, but better in the spring and in hardiness zone 4-7 need to start in the middle of the winter indoor, the plant need enough hot days when mature to bear fruits without, if the plant won’t be with mature fruits in the autumn or the plant won’t bear fruits or the fruits will die before fully ripen, also better to choose cultivar that bear the fruits faster.

How to plant:
Planting in well ventilated soil, dig bigger hole than the plant and put organic matter, humus and dead leaves

Pests and diseases:
Powdery mildew, aphids, moth, virus, beetles

Pruning season:
No need, but possible all the season

How to prune:
Infected leaves needed to take out, also try to clean them

Difficulties or problems when growing:
Attacked easily, when the plant attacked in the base if not treatment well it will die

Pests and diseases:
Powdery mildew, aphids, moth, virus, beetles

Pruning season:
No need. But possible all the season

How to prune:
Infected leaves needed to take out, also try to clean them

Size of the plant:
0.5-1.5 m, 20-60 inches

Growth speed in optimal condition:
Fast growing

Water requirement:
Average amount of water

Light conditions in optimal condition for growing:
Full Sun

Is it possible to grow indoor as houseplant?
No

Growing is also possible in a planter /flowerpot / containers:
Yes, planting in containers need to be at least 10-20L (2.5-5 gallons), well-drained soil, the plant not react well to overwater, need to make enough holes in the container for good drainage also choosing soil for container important and need to be soil well ventilated, can be potting mix or peat soil with perlite, when use bottom for the pot need that it will dry in the same day.

Blooming information

Bloom season:
Late spring to summer

General information about the flower
Flowers are edible, yellow flower with five lobs, female contain semi fruits that looks like a little Courgette plant, and male flower are smaller

Thinning the bloom:
Sometimes happened because disease or not enough water, or need hand poination

Pollination is done by:
Bees and more pollinators, by hand