Planting Zucchini In Open Ground

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Although zucchini came to our region from warm and sunny countries, due to the relatively short growing season, they easily fit into the garden beds of our climate, delighting vegetable growers with their fertility and dietary composition of substances. As a rule, zucchini is grown in the open field, without spending money and energy on the construction of greenhouses and greenhouses

Novice vegetable growers, looking at the luxurious zucchini thickets of a neighbor, believe that it is easy and simple to grow these vegetables, and therefore they do not bother with the construction of additional structures, but boldly stick cute zucchini seeds into the soil and proudly collect 5-7 zucchini from a bush.

But such a rosy picture awaits only those beginners who got plots with fertile soil. The rest spend time and effort to get 1-2 zucchini from a bush, although they are happy with such a harvest.

In order for the time and effort spent to give a decent harvest of zucchini, you still need to know some simple points of planting zucchini in open ground.

Soil fertility

For squash, as well as for other plants of the Pumpkin family, soil fertility is very important. Indeed, in order to accumulate useful and necessary substances for the human body in their leaves, flowers and pretty fruits, zucchini need a full-fledged diet containing all these useful substances.

Therefore, before you start planting zucchini, you need to determine the fertility of the soil in your area. It is rare for anyone to get happiness when the long-awaited hundred square meters acquired turn black with black soil, rich in humus - the best delicacy of any plant. More often it turns out that the soil is clay, sandy or peaty, and therefore requires additional work of the vegetable grower to bring the soil to a fertile state. Some people spend their whole life on this, and only their children, or even grandchildren, will be able to fully enjoy the harvests from their garden. But with shock work, already the first vegetable grower proudly demonstrates his zucchini achievements to his friends.

Clay soil, dense and waterproof, depleted in phosphorus, potassium and many other necessary elements, is converted into loose and permeable, adding to it rotted sawdust, loose peat, vitamin humus, as well as fertilizers (wood ash, superphosphate), which contain chemical elements absent in clay.

The sandy soil on which the medicinal herbs of the desert (arak, mashta, hargal) manage to grow, for the cultivation of zucchini they are enriched with the same loose peat, turf soil, rotted sawdust, tasty humus, not forgetting to add wood ash and superphosphate.

Peat soil, which serves as a fertilizer for other soils, should also be diluted with good humus, clay or loamy soil, feeding 1 square meter of the garden with two tablespoons of wood ash, as well as potassium sulfate and superphosphate, which will only take 1 teaspoon each.

The timing of planting squash in open ground

The impatient summer resident really wants to enjoy vegetables from their own beds as soon as possible. The deceptive spring sun will slightly warm up as he hurries to throw the zucchini seeds into the garden bed prepared in advance. Amicable shoots delight the eye and comfort the soul. But one morning, a hurried vegetable grower discovers drooping leaves in the garden, killed by insidious return frosts, to which the heat-loving plant could not get used to.

To avoid such grief, you can build miniature greenhouses that will not take much time and will not divert finances to the side. In the device of such greenhouses, plastic bottles, which are abundant today, will help. In the afternoon, the covers are unscrewed for ventilation.

Considering that only two months are enough for zucchini to please with their fruits, you can not rush to sow seeds or plant prepared seedlings, but wait for stable heat, without creating additional stress for yourself in our already turbulent time.