Zucchini - overseas guests from distant Italy, loved by our gardeners. These vegetables grow quickly, have a neat shape and soft juicy flesh. They can be stored almost all winter and are ideal for preparing various dishes.

Characteristics of zucchini

In translation, the name "zucchini" means "little pumpkin". It looks like a squash in appearance, but has a more intense green color. You can plant zucchini in a greenhouse or outdoors. There are many different varieties, very large fruits and fingernails.

Zucchini can be safely eaten raw or cooked in any way. It is stewed along with other vegetables and meat, fried separately, and baked in the oven or on the grill.

On a note! Fruits contain carotene, magnesium and other useful substances, they cleanse the body, stimulate the brain and bind fats.

By regularly adding zucchini to your food, especially those grown in your garden, it is easy to achieve great well-being and improved health.

Zucchini

Zucchini: growing and nursing outdoors

To figure out how to plant zucchini, you don't need to have much experience in gardening. You can place seeds or seedlings in open ground. For ideal results, it is better to raise the beds in advance and add compost as fertilizer, this will help you get a more bountiful harvest. Gardeners and gardeners know that it is best not to plant zucchini in areas where pumpkin seeds grew last year. In the soil, pathogens could remain that would harm the new crop. It's easy enough to avoid this risk by replacing vegetables with cabbage or tomatoes.

Eggplant: growing and care in the open field

For a fast emergence and active growth, it is very important to plant the seeds correctly. How to plant zucchini with seeds in the ground:

  • The soil should warm up to 15 degrees, so it is advisable to start planting in mid-May.
  • Before planting, the seed is best germinated in damp gauze.
  • Planting depth should be about 4 centimeters, and the distance from one zucchini to another should be about 1 meter.
  • For safety net, it is worth planting 2 seeds, if both sprout, choose the strongest shoot and get rid of one shoot.

Note! In greenhouses, you can also grow zucchini, but it will be too hot for them, because the temperature is considered normal a little over 20 degrees.

In case of a severe cold snap, it is better to cover the sprouts with foil.

Planting zucchini and care in the open field does not require much effort. They grow fast enough and yield good yields. When planting in cool and northern regions, it is worth preparing the seedlings in advance. Already in mid-April, it is advisable to find time for this job:

  • A growth stimulator is used, in which the seeds germinate very quickly.
  • You will need small pots with a diameter of about 15 centimeters, filled with peat and humus.
  • For watering, it is better to use not cold, but slightly warm water.
  • The seeds are dipped a couple of centimeters into the soil.
  • Watering is recommended every 6 days.
  • You can feed vegetables with complex fertilizer twice.

Zucchini seedlings are planted in open ground after 1 month.

Preparing zucchini seedlings for planting.

These squash will need enough light and water, it is important to leave a lot of space for the roots, they are voluminous and grow quickly, despite the fact that the seedlings are very small at first.

Growing features

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It is worth paying attention to watering. The water should not be cold, the roots should not be overcooled. It is better to stand it for a day in a sunny place, and then pour it gently under the roots.

Important! With too much water, inflorescences and leaves can begin to rot and ruin the entire crop.

Before flowering, it is enough to moisten the soil once a week. Watering is especially important during the period of flowering and crop growth, if during this period it does not rain, it is worth watering the beds every day or every other day.

The first top dressing in the open field after planting is needed with the appearance of leaves. During this period, the plant especially needs nutrients. You can use a mixture of mineral and organic fertilizers. After another couple of weeks, it is worth repeating the procedure. The appearance of fruits is the next active period, at this time fertilizers are included in the water for irrigation. Suitable mullein with ash, superphosphate.

Zucchini quickly grows abundant and large foliage. This feature of zucchini can prevent the sun from penetrating to the fruit, the soil will not warm up. The solution to the problem is regular loosening and airing. When grown in greenhouses or greenhouses for a day, it is imperative to completely open these vegetables, otherwise they will rot very quickly from excess moisture or deteriorate from hypothermia of the roots due to problems with access to sunlight.

Airing the zucchini

Additional work to help you achieve the perfect harvest:

  • Do-it-yourself pollination. To prevent the ovaries from dropping, the plant will have to be helped: pick the male flowers (they can be recognized by the thinner stamens), remove the petals and walk over the female flowers, gently pressing the stigmas. This should be done in dry, not too hot weather.
  • Be sure to loosen the soil when a hard crust forms.
  • Airing: you need to rearrange the sheets so that there is free circulation of heat and air under them. A third of the leaves should be removed after the first fruits have begun to appear, so that the sun's rays fall on them.

Attention! Lack of water and light, as well as excess fertilizer can give the zucchini fruit bitterness. With proper care of the soil and the plants themselves, this will not happen.

The crop may appear for the first time after 45-50 days after planting, this makes it possible to eat healthy vegetables throughout the summer, and also stock up on them for the winter. Starting from July, almost every day you can find delicious grown zucchini, which can decorate any dinner or lunch.

Harvesting

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Depending on the area of ​​application, fruits of different sizes can be harvested. The smallest and most tender ones are usually eaten raw in salads. This should be done only in summer, without long-term storage of vegetables. Fruits weighing about 0.5 kg are suitable for different cooking options; they are an indispensable product in cooking. Finally, in the fall, remove the large seed squash and leave it to ripen on the windowsill. With their help, seeds will be prepared for the next season.

Zucchini harvest.

Those vegetables that were not immediately consumed can be stored for a long time. The main thing is to choose a cool room with low humidity. In this case, these zucchini will remain fresh after several months. It is also worth paying attention to the many preservation recipes, zucchini are ideally combined with other vegetables and can be closed in all types.

In general, it is worth noting the ease of planting and caring for zucchini, as well as an impressive harvest from one seed, ease of storage and preparation. Knowing how to plant zucchini in open ground or a greenhouse and properly care for it will not be difficult to get a good harvest. With such a guest in the garden, everyone will be able to get enough nutrients and enjoy vitamins for almost the entire year.