How best to grow zucchini - seeds or seedlings. Varieties of courgettes
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Growing zucchini: good grades and care
Gardeners have been arguing about how best to grow zucchini - seeds or seedlings - for a long time. Although it is unlikely that there is a topic for controversy: you need to do it as you please, if only for pleasure.
And the harvest in any case will please, if you work competently and do not be lazy.
I can not imagine my vegetable garden without zucchini. However, as without their close relatives, the Pipassons and Pumpkins. I always plant these vegetables willingly and a lot, and the collected trophies are enough for us to eat to the heel themselves, and to feed friends and neighbors, and to preserve for the winter (the last banks are opened when the new season is already beginning).
I think a lot depends on the compatibility of varieties with the owners. I tried many different ones: some flatly refused to grow with me, others - neither shakily nor swell. But in the end, I was still able to make up my personal “guard”, which will always cover me, even in lean years.
The best varieties of zucchini
So, I will list your favorite varieties: zucchini - Polar Bear, White Swan, Seagull; zucchini - Black handsome, Zebra, Squash, Negro; squash - Umbrella, White 13.
See also: How to grow zucchini in the Urals
Planting zucchini seeds
I sow in the pots in the first ten days of May, and then I carry them to the greenhouse, where I place them not on the ground, but on old shops. Seedlings appear quickly, and at the end of May, when the threat of frost passes, I transplant the plants into the open ground, first attaching them to the scorching sun with plastic fruit boxes with a mesh bottom. After about a week, I remove these shelters.
I prepare the holes for planting as follows: first I put a bunch of freshly cut grass there, on top - humus or ordinary compost (depending on what is available) and a handful of ash.
I mix everything thoroughly and spill plentifully, plant the plants and fill it up with ordinary soil from the beds. And it turns out that my sprouts live in insulated "fertile" holes. They provide young plants with easily assimilated nitrogen in ammonium form, which favorably affects their growth.
In addition, the soil does not become acidified, which occurs when mineral nitrate-containing fertilizers are used, where nitrogen is in the form of nitrates and nitrites.
Pollinating zucchini
When the squash blooms, I pollinate every morning, although this can be provided to the bees - all the neighbors have apiaries, so there are enough pollinators in the district. But I try to make sure that no female flower is left without pollen.
In the beginning of July there are always fresh squash on the table.
Top dressing of courgettes
When the fruits start to keep up, every 10 days I feed them with the same infusion. I try not to overexert and to collect current young consumption and processing for young ovaries with a thin skin and small seeds, and for storage I leave the fruits that began in August (I keep them on the bushes until the seed peel is completely hardened).
At this time, planting is no longer feeding, only watering, because an excess of nitrogen affects the keeping quality. In dry weather, be sure to mulch the soil with hay and water it daily with warm water. By the way, hay as a mulch also protects the ovary from decay - it turns out double protection.
Similarly, I grow pumpkins.
Reference by topic: Pumpkins and pumpkin - growing, types and care
This year, they shared with me seeds kruknek, grew funny shriveled fruits, which still decorate the interior of the kitchen.
Finally, I’ll tell you how I canned zucchini for the winter. This recipe was shared with me by my supervisor, Ph.D. and just a wonderful person with a great sense of humor. She calls it "Mother-in-law's tongue in the bank."
So, 3 kg of zucchini cut into cubes, add chopped peppers (2-4 sweet and 1-2 bitter), 100 g garlic, 2 st. l. salt, 1 glass of sugar, 1 glass of vegetable oil and 0,5 l of tomato paste. Mix everything and cook, stirring, over low heat for half an hour. Then add an 1 glass of table vinegar (6%). In a hot form, decompose into sterilized jars and roll them with sterile caps.
Be sure to try, do not regret it!
Zucchini spaghetti
In the yard is the end of April, and I roasted Spaghetti's last squash from the harvest of last year. Oh, what a wonderful vegetable! I want to share with readers how I grow it.
Seeds sow in May under a film on a temporary bed. As soon as the cotyledon leaves appear, I immediately transplant to a permanent place (fertilizing the humus with wells and well straining them) and covering them with plastic bottles with cut off bottoms. After the threat of recurrent frost disappears, I remove these shelters and spend loosening. In a week I add fertilizing with herbal infusion.
Since this variety of zucchini has very thick and long whips, I plant them along the fence, and they quite freely feel themselves there: neither do I disturb them, nor they me. I harvest fruits for the winter in late August in the cellar, and there from time to time I turn them from one side to the other.
I cannot but tell you about how I cook Spaghetti. What hostess does not want to boast of a recipe? I cut the fruits lengthwise into two halves and cook for about 15 minutes. over low heat. While the trial and the case, I fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil. Meanwhile, the zucchini comes up. After it cools down, remove all the seeds with a spoon, and then scrape out the pulp, which immediately breaks up into thin threads. This is spaghetti.
Pulp spread on a skillet with vegetables, a little salt and minutes 5-10 fry over low heat. Then add ground red pepper.
Cultivating zucchini - sharing your care experience
Mexican friend zucchini
Lovers you zucchini the way I like them? Undoubtedly, pancakes from courgettes or vegetable ragout are respected by many. In our village this vegetable was registered on a compost pile.
I grow zucchini in the wild, in the open ground - on high warm beds, covered with black covering material. She refused seedlings, it was too painful for her to take root after transplanting into the ground. I’m doing this: I cut a circle of ten centimeters in a spunbond, pour it well with water, make a hole, pour a handful of ash and a few handfuls of compost, pour it again with water. Next - a small depression, sprinkle two seeds just in case, a little earth and cover with a transparent cropped plastic bottle.
Sprouts appear in a few days. The main thing here is to ruthlessly remove the excess plant, only one should be left in the hole. Watering - in the evening, a bucket of warm water.
If zucchini are frozen
Last season, at the end of June, when my zucchini gaily turned green, it froze at night. I wake up somehow in the morning and do not believe my eyes: in the evening everything was joyful and alive, and now all the leaves have turned black and drooped. Burned, then cut off all-all the dead leaves and sprinkled the remaining solution, stimulating the growth of the roots. The courgettes looked so sad that they could not believe in the continuation of their lives. A day later, I sprinkled with a saline solution. A week later, my cabbages revived and began to grow green again. The harvest, however, subsided for a couple of weeks, but it was so massive, amicable that I did not have time to cut it off and drag it to the house with arms.
During the season, as a rule, I do not water zucchini. The beds, sheltered spangbone house, perfectly retain moisture from the spring. And if it's really hot and dry weather, then in the evening I throw a hose on the bed and just shake the water from the well.
If there are not enough zucchini on the zucchini
Last year, the weather was cool and zucchini blossomed inactive, the ovaries were not enough, I tried this recipe: I sprayed the plants with sweet water. It attracted insects. I do not do top dressing and cultivation. Initially, good and “tasty” made high beds make life much easier. And they guarantee a harvest.
The store sells two varieties of courgettes and zucchini. The species are similar, but the zucchini are more productive, have a more tender flesh, and the peel for a long time does not coarsen. By the way, the seeds of courgettes are very well kept. Even after eight years can normally ascend.
Vegan cats
And my cats are very fond of zucchini. I have several mustachioed-striped-red-tailed and tailed. How without them in a village house? Mice are already worth their weight in gold, the competition is huge. Therefore, my tailed ones are happy to burst zucchini. Finely cut, add a couple of eggs and cereals, a little milk - and in the oven. Great meal! Especially with a bang go the first, young zucchini.
Of all the variety of varieties of this vegetable, I most like the oilman's Breakfast. They are long, slender, green, perfectly kept, lying under the bed until April.
From personal observations: the best are those that winter under the bedside table with the TV.
Varieties of courgettes that I recommend
Gribovsky 37
An old classic variety, still loved by gardeners. Legends circulate about his hedgehog; it can be stored until the New Year. Medium early, bushy, strongly branched. The fruit is a short cylinder, when young, it is light green, and mature is white.
Zolotinka
Early, very productive. The peel is not rough for a long time. The bright yellow fruit looks very beautiful in the can, in conservation. The bush is compact, does not lash. If in time to collect young zucchini, then they grow very much.
Ball
Early ripening variety. I got on our list thanks to an unusual round shape. Perfectly suited for stuffing, to do this, tear off the fruits small.
Aeronaut
Early ripe bush variety, fruit - cylinder, smooth, dark green, weighing 1,3 kg. The peel is thin. The pulp is whitish yellow, dense, tender, slightly sweet, juicy.
Negro
Early-ripening zucchini zucchini variety for open ground. Fruits of mass 0,7-0,9 kg, elongated-cylindrical, unusual black-green coloration. The flesh is green, juicy, very tasty.
Zebra
Early ripening variety. The plant is bushy, the leaves are very decorative, the fruits are light green with longitudinal dark green stripes.
The flesh is slightly yellowish, juicy, crispy.
Apollo F1
Early hybrid. A good harvest can be harvested in any weather. The fruits are large, weighing 3-3,5 kg, and the flesh is very tender and tasty. The plant is cold-resistant and shade-tolerant, fruit-bearing.
On a note:
Domestic courgettes
Pros: frost-proof, more suitable for central and northern areas. A more delicate taste, longer stored in a natural form and retain a taste when preserved.
Foreign varieties of courgettes
Pros: fruits are more even, with a thin skin, the seed chamber is smaller, which means that the flesh is larger. Longer remain on the bushes, not overgrown and not overripe.
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Zucchini - in a pouch!
Earlier, when I was a beginner gardener, I did everything strictly according to books. Seeds for sowing harvested only from the first, and therefore, the strongest and most viable fruits. For example, I never ripped off the first two zucchini until they grow to a "torpedo" size. After that, I cleaned them for a long time, although I wanted to put out these zucchini so they could feed the delicious ragout!
Now I have a different approach to this issue. Since the seeds of zucchini have a very good germination, there is no particular need to grow them in the first fruits. I collect them in handfuls of those zucchini that I use to make homemade squash caviar. I put them in a colander and rinse them thoroughly in running water from the pulp, then lay them on a large paper towel to absorb water. When the seeds dry out a little, I cull small and damaged seeds. I spread the remaining on a wide baking sheet (can also be laid out in a row on a flat plate) and put it on the southern windowsill. After a week, the seeds will dry out and be ready for winter storage - I spread them in chintz “breathing” bags. And in the spring my zucchini sprout beautifully - I sow them usually in April or early May.
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Zukini is always under the rune
Zucchini is a regular vegetable in our menu. Unfortunately, young fruits are not stored for a long time. But there is a way out - zucchini can be grown on the balcony.
The variety should be chosen self-pollinated. Seeds are planted in containers or pots with well drained, nutrient-rich soil. They must be cut to 2 cm. Before germination of seeds, keep crops in the heat (20-25 °).
After emergence (after about a week), you can place zucchini on the balcony or window sill. Transplanting bushes is not necessary. It is important that most of the day the plants are in the sun. It is not difficult to take care of them - it is enough to carry out regular watering and top dressing. Any mineral fertilizer for vegetables, for example, cucumbers, is suitable. If possible - it is permissible to use a mullein solution and ash. For watering, you need to take the settled water (0,5-0,7 liters per plant) and prevent water from entering the ovaries and leaves.
Aging leaves below plants should be removed. The grown fruits of milk ripeness are regularly picked - they are tastier and the plant will bear fruit better.
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Courgettes from summer to winter
Girlfriend-cottage dweller complained that there are few ovaries on the vegetable marrows. Why this can be? Part of the ovaries may fall due to the fact that female flowers could not be pollinated. There are several reasons for this: the rainy weather, the absence of bees, which for some reason do not fly to the site, or the significant predominance of female flowers over the male. When this happens, I pollinate the plants manually
I constantly check that there are no rotting ovaries - I immediately remove them. Thanks to this, new flowers appear faster. I regularly water the zucchini with water heated in the sun. In the afternoon I pour water under the root - 5-6 liters. A week before the last cleaning I stop watering. To zucchini does not grow very much, remove the top of the main stem. This increases yield and accelerates fruit ripening. I collect zucchini every 2-3 days, trying to prevent their overgrowth. If the crop is not harvested in a timely manner, the growth of other ovaries will slow down.
I tear off young zucchini always in the morning, then they last longer keep fresh, And for long-term storage I collect ripened zucchini. On the plant I leave the fruit, under them I put the planks, so that the sides do not rot. After the collection I put them in the room, and so they are kept with me almost until the New Year.
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Colored courgettes
Instead of the usual zucchini always put zucchini. I love them for their beautiful color and shape, great taste and great benefit.
Most varieties of zucchini grow much faster than their "white" brethren. And the bush is more compact, and the yield is higher. It is necessary only in time to collect them, when they are reached in length 20-30 cm, then the fruits will become tender, and the skin is fine. Next, the next "party" will grow up.
The plant is very fond of fertile soil, so plant zucchini in organic soil, for example, on a pile
herbal compost with half-baked manure. Loose planting is not necessary, because the courgettes are very close to the root system, and it is very easy to damage.
To water it is necessary directly under a root that water did not get on leaves and ovaries. And, of course, do not forget to weed out and periodically remove the aging lower leaves.
I really like the multicolored fruit. Be sure to plant varieties of different shades.
Zucchini is well kept in the cellar and does not deteriorate until February.
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Zucchini is good - squash is better
To taste the squash reminds zucchini, but they contain more vitamins. Especially good mini-marinated squash. In this form, to taste, they remind, as it seems to me, of white mushrooms.
What else I like about them is early maturity and a delicate taste. Already 1,5 months after the emergence of seedlings, I collect small beautiful fruits. Marina them entirely. It turns out very beautifully.
For several years now I have planted the seeds of Crock. Fruits of orange color tear off when they reach 5-7 cm in diameter. This happens on the 42-45 day after emergence.
Solar blast F1 - mid-early hybrid. Before fruiting, 45-50 days pass. Fruits grow weighing 70-100 g, a beautiful bright yellow color. Their pulp is dense, creamy in color, and there are few seeds in the fruit. The plant is compact, bushy. If you do not have time to arrive at the cottage in time to collect the fruits, do not worry - they do not outgrow for quite some time.
For the first time, last year, Sashenka planted mini squash, and they did not disappoint me. The fruitlets are small - 3-5 cm in diameter, so the jars pass through the neck without problems. The variety is early ripe and drought tolerant.
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Courgettes or zucchini?
Before, there were only zucchini, and now there were zucchini. Is it some other plant? Does he have any peculiarities of cultivation?
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Zucchini is a type of squash. In many European countries, for example, in Italy, all sorts of zucchini are called this word. The main feature of zucchini is the availability of fruits with a light, dark green and even yellow color, which must be collected immature and not allowed to grow larger than 15-20 cm. The agricultural technique for growing zucchini and zucchini is no different.