Want to put the ZOOSH in your zucchini? Put some COOOR in your courgettes? Well there are a few tricks of the trade you need to know first. Luckily, Ben, your friendly backyard gardener is here to the rescue with his top tips for growing Perfect Zukes every time! 💚
You’ll need good quality soil so you might want to check out these videos to give you a head start…
Choosing an organic fertilizer: https://youtu.be/RmAJoKDB_3Q
3 Ways to Build Soil Health: https://youtu.be/L14woJZEJnk
Feeding your soil with kitchen waste: https://youtu.be/ZQAEQMvEtA0
If you have trouble getting your zukes to fruit, try this video which explains everything you need to know about their pollination:
https://youtu.be/4Baj4vUXFMA
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I heard that you should not compost diseased or bug infested vegetation.
This is probably one of the best videos on courgettes I have ever seen. Chock full of good information without lots of blabber, I so appreciate that. Thank you so very much.
How to get more fruit for zucchini and yellow squash
I've grown some courgette but the fruit is prickly help what should I do. Is it edible
I definitely wasn't aware I could prune that aggressively. I ended up planting two varieties (Grey and Round) per the packaging directions which was three plants per mound, so now I've got quite a dense bit of zucchini to contend with.
I'm enjoying your videos very much Ben, thank you
Just found your channel recently. Great content and very helpful. Love the dog! Lhasa Apso?
My zucchini is only forming one flower at a time it dies off then a new on develops. What can I do to be sure that I get both a male and female flower to ensure I get zucchini.
Can I trellis my zucchini?
Good information to know. California in southern my zuchini.is growing in a pot . its 2022 september and my 2nd zuchini is growing well. The length was 6" long. For bugs i use watered tea, dish soap& water mix.
Your dog is ADORRAAAABLEE! WHAT IS THEIR NAME
My two favorite summer zuchinni to grow so far are Costata Romanesco and Cocozella Di Napoli but I've found that for me the Costata produce more and taste a little better. I haven't had any luck with Winter squash when I try to grow them. However, I've just found a pumpkin of some sort growing out of my compost! I'm probably way more excited than I should be but I've tried so hard to grow winter varieties and never can and its happened by happy accident. It's still unseasonably warm here in Humboldt county CA so I hope they have enough time to ripen!
My bed is infected with mosaic virus! I can't enjoy these in that bed. I'm going to try switching to beans and tomatoes in that bed and will try zucchini and squash in a different bed
Squash vine borers have killed my dreams of a successful zucchini harvest twice. Not giving up, though.
all these fertiliser, makes it soooo expensive, enough to discourage any new gardener, costwise.I only put a couple of hand showel compost and spray them with seaweeds every 2 weeks or less and might give them a bit of blood and bones once or twice and voila! We have more than enough for 2 people who are bigggg eaters! getting powdery mildiou only to wrds the very end and cutting the leaves keeps them going way into autumn.
too much fertiliser attracts diseases and bugs.
Hope I'll defeat the blossom end rot this year and figure out what's really causing it for me once and for all.
Why doesn’t my female flower bloom for pollination? The zucchini is roughly 4 inches long.
Thanks for this information
I've never grown any zucchini, but I'm going to try this year to establish a garden on my property, and zucchini will one of the plants I try out
I have been living around date palm trees. The male flower clusters, thokar, appear in January/February. Date palms are manually pollinated, but the female flower clusters don't appear until a month or more later. The thokar is collected, laid in the sun/heat to dry a bit, then set aside until needed. I have often wondered why there is this month or two delay between pollen production and pollen need. Trees are also unreliably pollinated by wind, but most trees require human intervention.
Can you please show us how to save zucchini seeds?
I haven't had any luck so far
Last date of expected frost is nice and all, except for Melbourne this year where it stated "Early September." It hailed and frosted into November. I'm a new gardener so I'm not sure how accurate it is supposed to be, but 2 months off seems very unreliable
This is the 1st time I have ever had an issue with no zucchini I got about 1 or 2 all last year! Why you ask WELL! My 8 year old cut off the growing tip lol oh well! Not to worry I had a TON of pati pan! And I still love her helping in the garden it’s so important to include them when they are young it’s work everything!
Will try your suggestions for the vine borers. Used to grow incredible zucchini in TN without much effort – not able to grow any here in NC…. The vine borers win every year.
I hope more folks in the UK try to grow fresh produce as the food shortages have made mainstream news. Good luck to everyone!
How about planting them in 5 gallon buckets? I've run out of room in my garden but have a nice sunny spot on my driveway. What variety would you suggest for a 5 gallon bucket? I'm in zone 3a.