The cultivation of courgettes is very widespread because it is one of the easiest plants to grow in the garden. Most gardeners can plant a few zucchini seedlings and watch them grow quickly without any problems.
I love courgettes. Besides tomatoes, zucchini is the only vegetable that really rings summery for me. I love a whole range of zucchini recipes. So I want to make sure our harvest is plentiful, and that’s usually the case. In fact, our harvest is usually so bountiful that I beg my parents, family, and friends to do their part.
Here are some tips we use to grow zucchini plants.
1) Plant at the right time
Courgette plants are not afraid of frost. If you plant your courgette plants before the danger of frost has passed, you risk your entire crop. Courgettes also don’t like cold temperatures, but I can’t blame them! This means that you must resist temptation and not be in too much of a hurry. If the fruits are formed in the cold, they will hardly grow well.
2) Choose the right place
Once you have identified the right time to plant courgettes, you need to decide where to plant them in the garden. The chosen location must be in full sun, so a flowerbed in the shade due to a large tree is a bad choice!
It should also be a moist, well-drained location. However, the site does not have to be muddy! Be sure to add compost and organic material to the soil you choose for growing zucchini plants.
3) Use succession planting
Many people don’t know that growing zucchini seedlings is a good option for succession planting because they are not frost hardy. When we think of succession planting, we think of plants that grow from spring to fall, not summer-loving plants.
Zucchini plants break this pattern. These plants grow quickly and the first fruits can usually be harvested 40-60 days after sowing.
To avoid drowning in zucchini piles (which isn’t all bad if you love zucchini), start new plants two or three times a season. This way you can extend collection times. Zucchini plants tend to produce a lot of fruit at one time and then slow to a stop.
The best thing is that you don’t need to start zucchini seedlings indoors. Simply plant these seeds in the soil.
4) Plant a bunch of zucchini
Plant a bunch of 2 or 3 zucchini plants together. This is important because zucchini have flowers that must be pollinated to produce the desired fruit. These flowers open for 1 day. Yes, only 1 day! If pollination fails, you will have no courgettes and that would be a shame. Planting multiple plants together increases the chances of pollination. Gardeners can purchase seedlings or plant zucchini seeds directly into the garden.
5) Understanding zucchini pollination
Now you know that the flowers are open for a day, but did you know that there are male and female flowers on a zucchini plant? The male and female flowers open at the same time, but only one female flower forms a fruit. The male flowers serve only for pollination.
In most new plants, the male flowers tend to establish themselves first and then you get frustrated because the plant is full of flowers without any fruit forming. Don’t worry, especially if you see pollinating insects flying around you. The female flowers are coming.
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