Courgettes (photo) in the open - growing and grooming
Contents ✓
- ✓ The range of pots
- ✓ SUPERSPIRECT HYBRIDES OF KABACHKI
- ✓ PITCHES: BREEDING
- ✓ Sowing of pots on the order
- ✓ SEEDS OF SEEDS OF KABAKS FOR THE RASSADA
- ✓ ROUGH ROOMS NEEDED TWO SUB-ORGANIZATIONS
- ✓ HARVEST SECRETS
- ✓ WE SPILL CORRECTLY
- ✓ DOGS LIKE TO "POISLE"
- ✓ ON THE USE OF SOMES
- ✓ ... AND OTHER TINTS
- ✓ COMPOSITIONS FOR CONNECTION OF SPOONS
- ✓ SPRAYING OF SPOONS
- ✓ CREATION AND CARE OF ZUKINI
- ✓ Where to get the seeds of zucchini?
- ✓ DOGS AND ZUKINI IN THE GREENHOUSE
- ✓ BOILLERS IN BOCHKA
- ✓ INCREASE YIELD
- ✓ DISEASES AND PERGUAGES OF KINRYS
- ✓ CULTIVATION OF WOODS - LANDING AND CARE: TIPS FOR GARDENERS AND CAMPAIGNERS
- ✓ Growing zucchini in the open - video
Growing zucchini - when and how to plant and how to care for
Courgettes (Cucurbitapepo) -Products of pumpkin. In comparison with a pumpkin, the courgette and zucchini have a number of undoubted advantages. First of all, these vegetables ripen much faster than pumpkin. In addition, they can be consumed as food (unlike a pumpkin) young.
By the way: Zucchini will help beauty
Summer residents have a common problem - the skin of the face and hands suffers from the sun and wind, because gardeners spend a lot of time on the beds. Zucchini will help keep your skin beautiful. Grate it on a fine grater, like pancakes. Mix the gruel with 400 ml of Hercules flakes, which are placed in warm cream for 10 minutes and squeezed. Add 5 ml of honey - and the mask is ready. Carefully mix the mixture carefully onto the face and hands. Hold the mask for 10 to 30 minutes. Wash off with cool water, put on cotton gloves on your hands until morning.
To begin with, sort out with varieties of courgettes
The range of pots
Varieties and varieties of zucchini are numerous, and about 50% of its varieties and hybrids are foreign breeding.
When choosing a variety, you should consider:
- Varieties of domestic squash are intended for cultivation in the central and northern Eastern European regions
- Foreign hybrids of courgette and zucchini grow better in southern regions, have a longer vegetative period than Russian varieties.
- Domestic varieties differ more than foreign, nutritional value and contain more vitamins. Foreign varieties accumulate more nitrates.
- Domestic varieties are suitable for canning, pickling, caviar. Foreign - for the preparation of squash caviar and various methods of preserving it is better not to use.
- Sorts of domestic selection quickly outgrow. Foreign varieties are superior to domestic in terms of the leveling of fruits, external appeal, they have a thin skin, a more juicy and tender flesh.
Today in the suburban areas you can find more than two dozen varieties and hybrids of courgettes: this Gribovsky 37, Whitefish, Roller, Anna, Anchor, Sosnovsky, the most popular of hybrids - Belogor F, Nemchinovsky F.
ISKANDER
Early ripe hybrid, fruits are light green with white specks and veins. Belongs to bush varieties. This is a large erect bush with large leaves. The variety is popular due to long-term fruiting (up to autumn frosts) and high productivity. Zucchini of this variety is homogeneous, straight, cylindrical, narrowing to the peduncle, their length is about 20 cm, weight is up to 700 g, with creamy soft pulp, smooth wax skin. Zucchini Iskander grows well both in open ground and under film shelter, and can be grown in greenhouses in winter culture. These zucchini are good for frying and stewing, as well as for canning.
SOUKESHA
A vintage, early ripening zucchini variety that perfectly tolerates the climatic conditions of the middle belt. The plant is a compact, medium-bush shrub, with undisturbed leaves and petioles. Fruits are cylindrical, smooth or slightly ribbed. Their color is green, often with white dots or blurred bands across the surface. Tsukini Tsukesh varieties are best suited for vegetable stews and salads.
Tender Zefir
The sweetest of the existing varieties, a real delicacy. It is very beautiful in appearance due to its two-tone color - zucchini is bright yellow with a green “tip”, and its flesh is very tender. Zucchini of this variety is especially tasty at the stage of "milk maturity", they are eaten raw upon reaching a length of 10-15 cm, and also cooked in various ways. The variety is characterized by productivity and resistance to diseases and pests.
BREAKFAST OIL BREAKFAST
Early ripening grade. It is called so because of the color of the peel of the zucchini - dark, green-black. At the same time, the flesh of the zucchini is soft, creamy white and very tasty. This is a bush plant that almost does not branch. The variety is characterized by high productivity and very tasty fruits with a length of about 25 cm. It is a very cold-resistant variety, which also grows well on fairly heavy medium loamy soils. Also the zucchini breakfast of the oiler is perfectly kept until the next harvest.
SPAGHETTI
A medium-late variety of zucchini for lovers of exotic vegetables. The fact is that this is not an ordinary zucchini. With dark yellow hard bark and yellow flesh, it is perfectly stored. Prepare it without peeling the skin. They wash the whole zucchini and place it in boiling water for half an hour, then cut it in half and, after removing the seeds, simply spread the zucchini “spaghetti” on a plate - inside the zucchini the pulp is in the form of thin “sausages”. Its pulp does not even need to be cut. This “spaghetti” is seasoned with oil or sauce, sprinkled with herbs - and the dish is ready.
ZEBRA
Refers to early ripening varieties, the ripening of the crop occurs on the 35-38th day after the emergence of seedlings. It features a small, almost non-branching bush. It blooms mainly according to the female type, therefore, in order for the plant to be pollinated, it is necessary to plant a small number of ordinary bushes of white squash (forming many male flowers) nearby. Zucchini is small (from 500 to 900 g maximum), slightly ribbed, with a thickening, very tasty. As the name implies, their skin is striped - with longitudinal light green stripes.
Young tender zucchini is best kept in enameled trays on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
AERONAUT
A very high-yielding, early ripening zucchini variety (fruiting already on the 45 day after emergence), the bush is very compact and barely branched, petioles and leaves without pubescence. Courgettes of intense green color, with a smooth, thin skin and yellowish juicy pulp. Fruits are well transported.
YELLOW FRUIT
An early ripe variety, from emergence to harvest, takes 40-42 days. The fruits are medium-sized (maximum 900 g), similar in appearance to a very large banana - with a bright yellow peel and soft yellow flesh. The variety has a very high content of plant sugars.
F1 PANEL
This hybrid variety has a very high yield. Usually cut Kolobok’s fruits when they reach a diameter of only 10-12 cm. But the flesh and skin do not become coarse for a long time as the zucchini ripens. These delicate "koloboks" of very attractive appearance - round in shape, striped - it is very convenient to stuff and bake them as a whole. Often such zucchini is eaten raw.
An early ripe variety, from the appearance of seedlings to the ripening of the crop which takes only a month. The plant is very compact, it is a small-leafed bush dominated by female flowers (therefore, it is also necessary to plant several bushes of white-fruited squash nearby). The elongated cylindrical zucchini has an unusually dark, almost black skin color and green juicy flesh. Fruits are characterized by keeping quality, their mass is about 700 g, the yield is about 10 kg from the bush. Suitable for frying and stewing, as well as for fresh salads. The variety is resistant to powdery mildew.
SCRAP
Suitable for both open ground and for growing under film shelter or in a greenhouse. Harvest grade of zucchini - the yield from one bush is about 10 kg. The variety is considered to be early, from the appearance of seedlings to ripeness of the fruit takes about 55-56 days. Fruits reach a weight of more than a kilogram (up to 1200 g). Perfectly kept.
PHARAOH
The plant is a compact bush. Beautiful dark green courgettes regular straight cylindrical shape, with orange flesh. It is very tasty and resistant to diseases, it has a long storage time.
BLACK BEAUTIFUL
The medium-early variety (from the emergence of shoots to harvesting takes about 45 days). This variety is grown more often by seedling method than by direct sowing in open ground. Lightly greased, green zucchini with a glossy skin look impressive, and the taste of the pulp is tender and juicy. The fruits reach 1700 g in weight. One plant receives about 10 and more than a kg of harvest.
RUSSIAN SIZE
Refers to grades of late maturation. Fruits are pink-orange in color, the flesh is soft, without fibers. Excellent for preparing various dishes, and for conservation. Fruits are very large: they reach a meter, with a diameter of about 20 cm, weight of the order of 20-30 kg. It is stored all winter until the new harvest, without losing flavor, is distinguished by its excellent taste.
THE KING OF THE F1 MARKET
This early ripe hybrid is characterized by high productivity and shelf life. But only these zucchini should not be allowed to outgrow - they are collected small (15 cm). Very tasty when frying and stewing, as well as in various canned salads, it is part of various diets for weight loss and body cleansing.
ORANGE F1
Also, an early-ripening variety that ripens through 40 days after emergence (and shoots appear one week after sowing). Fruits are round, bright orange. The bush is compact. Tear out courgettes of this class, when their diameter from 10 to 15 cm (but no more).
This variety has a pulp with a sweet taste, very tasty in raw form. The variety is warm enough, it can not be sown at temperatures below + 10 ° C. You can both plant seeds in the open ground, and plant 30-day seedlings. Needs fertile soil.
ZAACHE UZHKO
Early ripening variety, which ripens in 45 days after sprouting emerges. A powerful tall bush with smooth light-green small fruits weighing up to a kilogram. Zucchini differ delicate white pulp, juicy and not loose. The variety is characterized by high yield, it is very convenient that all the fruits are about the same size. Ideal for direct use in food, as well as for canning.
Cavilli F1
Hybrid of Dutch selection. Ultra-early variety with whitish-green fruits, their flesh is white, tender. With growth, the fruits do not lose their delicate taste, and therefore they are harvested at a size of 15-25 cm. The fruits are ideal for immediate cooking. In rainy, cold summers, Cavili R plants can produce parthenocarpic fruits without pollinating insects. The variety produces high yields both under film cover and in open ground. Resistant to many diseases of squash, including powdery mildew. Very productive variety, with a small compact bush and short internodes. Fruiting more than 60-70 days. For 10 square meters. m should be placed only 8-12 plants of this variety.
SOUVENIR
Fast-ripening high-yielding hybrid, a plant with a compact, unbranched, medium-bush shrub and oval smooth fruits, the stalk is ribbed. Zucchini cream-green with longitudinal blurred stripes. Suitable for any culinary treatment. Almost the same external signs and taste properties are characterized by the early rippling hybrid Razbeg.
Read more: Varieties of courgettes - photo and description
SUPERSPIRECT HYBRIDES OF KABACHKI
ZG-831 - different unusual pear-shaped bright yellow (or orange) fruits. A plant with a slight pubescence of leaves and petioles, low, compact. Zucchini of this variety contains more carotene than other varieties, their percentage of solids is higher. At the international exhibition of vegetables in Germany, the variety received the "Gold Medal". If summer is rainy and cold, the ZG-831 hybrid suffers from leaf necrosis.
ZB-832 - a very productive hybrid, from one bush giving a crop of about 10 or more kg. Tall thick bush, medium branching, leaves pubescent. Zucchini oval or slightly pear-shaped, not very large in size, yellow skin. The unusual appearance of zucchini gives the tuberous surface of the fruit. Ideal for growing in suburban areas. Zucchini of excellent taste, suitable for any cooking and canning.
PITCHES: BREEDING
The tavern loves the warmth. At the same time, it is the most cold-resistant culture among representatives of the Pumpkin family, the seeds of the courgette will germinate at + 8-9 ° C, but the youngest seedlings will be the strongest if the seeds germinate at + 22 ° С.
Zucchini can tolerate a short-term decrease in temperature to +6 ° C, however, frosts are fatal for this plant. For adult plants, the optimum growth and development temperature is + 20-25 ° С. The lower limit of temperatures permissible for normal germination of zucchini seeds is + 12-15 ° C.
Zucchini drought-resistant, but abundant watering at times increases the yield. Especially important is a sufficient amount of moisture during flowering and tying fruit.
The best predecessors of zucchini and zucchini are potatoes, cabbage, onions, root vegetables, herbs and legumes.
This plant is very photophilic, and it is usually planted on the sunny side of the site. The quality and volume of the harvest, as well as the speed of its production, directly depend on the amount of light produced by the plant. Almost all the same requirements are imposed on the growing medium and zucchini. This crop yields good harvests in the middle belt. Tsukini retain early ripeness, yield and taste in our climate when growing both in closed and open ground.
TO THE SOIL IN THE BOILL STEADY REQUIREMENTS
Zucchini is considered demanding for the soil by culture, and zucchini is even more demanding of the composition and pH of the soil than the zucchini. Poorly fruiting zucchini on acidic peat soils, the fruits of it in such conditions are small, like the leaves. Sour grounds for zucchini are prepared by applying lime. But fresh liming zucchini do not like.
The tavern needs light loamy or sandy-loamy fertile soils. On sandy loamy soils, a large amount of complex mineral fertilizer is needed. It grows best on soils with a neutral reaction (pH 6,5-7,5). Do not plant zucchini on dense, heavy and poor soils. Usually in such soils, preparing a site for planting zucchini, fall manure or compost (from 4 to 6 kg per square meter), as well as a complex mineral fertilizer for vegetables (from 50 to 80 g for the same area). Unsuitable for zucchini heavy clay soils.
Marrows are very hygrophilous. Water them only at the root, and watering can be carried out only with warm water, otherwise the ovaries will rot. Watering is doubled at the stage of fruiting zucchini and zucchini. As a feeding of zucchini in the vegetation period, summer residents are most often using "Bud" or "Agricola".
WHERE IS IT LOCATED?
Place for planting zucchini should be chosen so that during the entire vegetation period the soil is warmed by the rays of the sun. An important feature of the cultivation of cabbage-
Cove: experienced summer residents plant them every year in a new place. In this case, on the one hand, they will hurt less, on the other hand, the plants will have practically no empty flowers.
YES THERE WILL BE STONES!
Zucchini is planted with seedlings and seeds - in May in open ground or in April for seedlings in closed ground. The planting method is chosen based on how quickly the first crop is needed. If you are not in a hurry, you can just sow the seeds of zucchini in the ground.
Seeds are sown from the middle to the end of May, sometimes even in early June, when the danger of recurrent spring frosts passes. Zucchini is relatively frost-hardy, but if the temperature drops below -2 ° C, the bushes will die. Sow seeds
under a film, in nutritious loose ground. The soil must first be prepared. In early May, add to the soil a manure humus or compost (a bucket at 1 sq. M area). If the soil is heavy, wood chips are brought into it under a deep digging. After that mineral fertilizers-sodium sulfate, superphosphate, ammonium nitrate, wood ash are added to the soil. Water the garden with a pink solution of potassium permanganate. Directly before sowing zucchini, the soil must be loosened.
Do not bring fresh manure directly into the hole when sowing seeds or planting zucchini seedlings. This can lead to the development of diseases in young plants, such as root rot, or to the active build-up of plants with green mass with poor fruit bearing.
Sowing of pots on the order
Presowing seed preparation consists in pre-soaking them on 10-12 hours in water with the addition of nitrophos. The seeds should swell, after that they are ready for sowing in the soil. For the best result, the zucchini seeds are soaked for 24 hours in the "Epine" solution: a drop of the growth stimulant is dissolved in 50 ml of water, and the seeds are immersed in the mixture for a day. Rinse with clean water and dry it, then plant it in the soil. This increases the germination of seeds, and also makes the development of young plants more rapid.
In the soil, holes are made about 70 cm from each other. A little compost or humus is added to each well. You can make grooves every 80 cm. Seeds are embedded to a depth of about 4-6 cm. Planting is carried out in moist soil. As the prophesized, not sprouted seeds are planted vertically, with a sharp part upward. In this case, the tip of the seed should be at 1-1,5 cm below ground level. It is best to sow two seeds in one hole. If both seedlings pass through, one can be cut or transplanted at the time of the appearance of the cotyledon leaves. To pull out seedlings it is impossible, only to cut off. Care for the sown area is timely watering, if the weather is hot and dry. Zucchini flowered a month after emergence.
SEEDS OF SEEDS OF KABAKS FOR THE RASSADA
Sow seeds for seedlings can be started from 10 April, for 30-35 days before disembarking into the soil. Seeds for seedlings are prepared in the same way as for sowing in open
soil, and sown in cups measuring 12 x 12 or 10 x 10 cm, in which a mixture of humus and peat is placed. Prepared containers with soil are poured with warm water and seeds are planted in cups - 2 for each cup, to a depth of 2-4 cm. The optimum air temperature for seedlings to hatch is about + 18-20 ° С. After the seedlings have hatched, the temperature must be reduced, otherwise they will stretch very much. The optimal temperature at night is up to + 12-14 ° С, during the day - + 15-18 ° С. Watered the seedlings with warm water (+ 25 ° C). Watering is needed every 5-7 days, 200-250 ml for each pot with seedlings.
ROUGH ROOMS NEEDED TWO SUB-ORGANIZATIONS
First feeding: 5th day after emergence. For 1 liter of water - 1 tsp. superphosphate, 1 tsp urea. 200 ml of the mixture per plant.
The second feeding: a week after the first. On 1 liters of water -1h. l. nitrofoski, 1 tsp wood ash. 200-250 ml per each plant.
Seedlings are planted in the open ground on ridges at the age of 20-25 days, the soil should be well warmed, loose and rich in organic matter. Planting works should be carried out only on a cloudy warm day or in the early morning. It is very important when planting seedlings in the ground not to damage the tender root system of plants. Therefore, transplant the seedlings with a lump of earth, first watering it with water and gently cutting the glass. Immediately before proceeding to plant the seedlings, the soil should be watered, heated to + 40 ° C. Planting seedlings should be at a distance of one meter from each other: there should be an average of one plant per 1 square. m of the garden area. Along with the seedlings cover with polyethylene on arcs. If it gets colder, you can cover the transplanted seedlings with one more layer of film.
NOT FOR STORAGE
The seedling technology for growing zucchini has a feature: zucchini is not suitable for long-term storage, they must be eaten or used for canning immediately after ripening. To obtain zucchini suitable for long-term storage, hatched seeds are sown directly into the ground, usually in early June. In order to be sure of the harvest, summer residents often grow half of the courgettes by the seedling method, half with seeds.
See also: How best to grow zucchini - seeds or seedlings. Varieties of courgettes
HARVEST SECRETS
Taverns need watering, weeding and loosening of row spacing, as well as top dressing with complex mineral fertilizers, mainly at the stage of flowering and fruiting. When the harvest begins to ripen, it is harvested once in 7-14 days to prevent the outgrowth of the fruit.
One of the most important conditions for obtaining a good crop of squash is loose, water- and breathable soil. How often you need to carry out loosening depends on its composition. Especially often loosening should be carried out on loamy soils - a hard crust is constantly forming on them, in particular, after each rain. To accelerate the growth and development of zucchini bushes, the earth must be loosened constantly, at the root itself.
Regular weeding will not allow us to grow weeds that create competition for the root system of zucchini in the fight for nutrients. Weeding is especially important at the beginning of the growth of zucchini: poor nutrition due to the large number of weeds does not allow young plants to develop.
To form additional accessory roots zucchini hills at the stage of the appearance of 2-4 of these leaves. The soil mixture is poured onto the roots by a layer about 5 cm.
At the vegetable marrow the bush is not formed, the main stem is not pinch. Most often, especially when growing zucchini, this measure is not needed, but if the plant is too large, the largest leaves are cut out. As a result, the core of the bush will receive more sunlight, this will stimulate the formation of new ovaries, and the harvest will be higher. Under the growing zucchini should always put planks, so that zucchini does not rot.
WE SPILL CORRECTLY
Zucchini is hygrophilous, and watering should be plentiful. But too frequent watering will do more harm than good. Do not forget that the zucchini is not a cucumber, and does not like excessive moisture. If zucchini is “transfused”, a large amount of water is formed in their cell juice. The fruits will rot and poorly stored.
Zucchini is watered once a week and a half: 10 liters of water per square meter. Water should be warm - + 25-30 ° С. The roots of pumpkin crops need more heat than the aboveground part.
And watering with a temperature below +20 ° C will harm the root system of zucchini - it will rot, like the ovary.
High air humidity zucchini do not like. When growing them under a film shelter or in a greenhouse, constant ventilation is necessary. Approximately two weeks before harvesting, the amount of water during irrigation is better to reduce or, if possible, stop watering altogether.
DOGS LIKE TO "POISLE"
Zucchini is fed at least twice during the growing season - during flowering and fruit growth. Zucchini is very responsive to feeding - productivity increases several times. You can feed zucchini infusion mullein.
Boron is an essential element in the formation and proper development of zucchini. If boron is insufficient in the nutrition of these plants, the ovaries rot. In this case, vegetable marrows are fed “by leaves” (sprayed) with the following composition: 2 g of boric acid per 10 l of water. The acid is first diluted in a small volume of water (200 ml), and only then the diluted preparation is combined with the remaining volume of water.
Zucchini is often fed in the same way as pumpkin, halving the dose of fertilizer. In fact, zucchini loves nitrogen more, and pumpkin loves potassium. Usually after drastic night cooling has passed, zucchini begins to be fed with infusion of manure and weeds. Adult plants can be fed simply with fresh manure.
ON THE USE OF SOMES
Infusions of weeds, manure, compost are used for sprinkling zucchini and their watering. Such fertilizing is very important in the period of regular fruiting for multi-crop plants, which include zucchini.
Simultaneously, they improve the properties of the land, heals the soil, because they have a huge number of soil microorganisms. In addition, they contain biologically active substances. Weeds take useful substances out of the soil, and there is a way to get them to give these substances back.
The best effect for feeding zucchini and other pumpkin crops can be achieved if you use dioecious nettle and stray comfrey in these infusions - these plants contain the highest amounts of nitrogen, magnesium, and potassium.
We remove the seeds of the weeds, and crush the green mass and fill it with water (per kilogram of weeds -10 L of water). We put the mass in a plastic barrel, fermentation will be faster if it is painted in a dark color. A barrel should be filled only by two thirds, otherwise the infusion will "run away" when fermented. This capacity is best placed away from home, because during fermentation weeds will spread an unpleasant odor. Every day, the mass should be stirred, so that oxygen penetrates into the lower layers.
The infusion is ready when the fermentation process is over. This happens in about 10 days. The infusion acquires a rich brown color. Useful properties of the infusion can be increased by adding a bit of Mullein (up to one and a half kilograms) or 1-3 l of ash to the barrel when fermenting the herb. Also in the infusion during the fermentation of grass add bird droppings (0,5 kg per barrel) or several tablespoons of full mineral fertilizer. Adding EM preparations (Baikal, Radiance) accelerates fermentation and improves the microflora of the infusion.
Filter the resulting preparation and dilute it in a ratio of 1:10 for irrigation, 1:20 for spraying. It is recommended to leave a little mixture for souring the next portion of weeds. "Thick", which remains after filtering the infusion of weeds, can be a wonderful mulch for zucchini or other crops. In this case, organic top dressing is no longer needed, just watered the garden with warm water. You can feed zucchini weed infusion daily or every other day.
Sometimes for the preparation of infusion use hemp or jute bag. In the bag put the grass and supplements, then the bag is simply removed, and the infusion does not need to be filtered.
... AND OTHER TINTS
An infusion of compost is also effective for zucchini. Approximately a shovel of well-ripened compost is diluted in 10 l of water. The mixture is stirred and allowed to ferment for 3-5 days. Then the infusion is filtered and watered zucchini. Dilute the water with the ready-made infusion is no longer necessary.
The infusion of manure is prepared from chicken manure, horse, cow, rabbit manure. The manure is mixed with water (1: 2), wood ash is added. The mixture is allowed to ferment for 3-7 days, then decant and dilute with water (1: 15-30).
- Watering zucchini infusion of weeds, manure, compost can only be on a cloudy day or early morning. In a bright sun, such feeding will do more harm than good.
- It is important that the infusions do not fall on stems and leaves.
- Before using infusions, you need a lot of watering plants.
- You can store the infusion under a fine mesh or a lid with holes for air circulation.
Foliar top dressing is very effective for zucchini and zucchini. One of these top dressings is carried out with urea (at the beginning of the growing season), the second - with potassium permanganate with an extract of superphosphate (intense pink solution). Foliar top dressing is carried out only in sunny weather, in the morning.
COMPOSITIONS FOR CONNECTION OF SPOONS
- One of the effective compositions for feeding zucchini -1 tbsp. l nitrofoski, 1 liter of mullein per 10 liters of water. The solution is thoroughly mixed and watered squash at the rate of 1 liter per plant. Feeding with this solution is carried out twice - at the beginning of the growth of bushes, at the stage of flowering or fruit setting.
- This infusion is suitable for feeding not only zucchini, but virtually all vegetable crops, including potatoes. The 50-liter barrel will need 1 kg of weed grass (sow, nettle, weeds, willow-tea), 2-2,5 kg of wood ash; 1 kg of manure or 1 kg of chicken manure and 0,5 l of EM preparation (eg "Baikal"). Weeds must be crushed. In the 50-liter barrel, a glass of sugar or 250 ml of old fermented jam is poured, after which the drug EM is diluted to the volume 4L. The mixture is allowed to stand in a barrel for two hours. Add the remaining ingredients and bring the water volume to 2 / 3 barrels. Brew infusion for three to seven days and feed vegetables.
See also: Growing zucchini in the Urals
SPRAYING OF SPOONS
Zucchini insect pollinators are bumblebees, wasps and bees. Usually it’s enough to periodically push the leaves of zucchini - this way it will be easier for the insect to penetrate the flowers.
If the bush is very thickened, you can cut out part of the middle leaves - this way we will provide an air flow to all branches of the plant and facilitate access to flowers by pollinating insects. But if the summer was rainy or zucchini and zucchini are grown in large greenhouses, sometimes they have to be pollinated manually. For better pollination, it is recommended to spray the flowering zucchini in the early morning with an aqueous solution of honey (or sugar syrup). The frequency of spraying with a sweet solution, attracting pollinating insects, is determined empirically, but after rain spraying is necessary.
Pollinating zucchini - video
CREATION AND CARE OF ZUKINI
Zukini's farming technology differs little from the cultivation of zucchini. But there are some features ..
Zucchini is grown both in the seedling method and in the sowing of germinated seeds directly on the garden bed. For seedlings, the seeds are sown in peat pots 10 x 10 cm. A mixture for cucumbers is suitable as a substrate. Seeding depth 2 cm, temperature - + 18-22 ° С. Watering seedlings - water temperature + 22-25 ° C, up to 400 ml per pot.
Zucchini seedlings are fed twice: a week after emergence - with an aqueous solution of a growth stimulator (for example, "Bud", 1 g per liter of water). After another week - 0,5 tsp. "Agricola-5" per liter of water, a glass of solution per plant. Seedlings can be transplanted already at the age of 20 days.
When planting zucchini with seeds, we first place a layer of compost or manure, well soaked in water with complex mineral fertilizer dissolved in it, on top - a layer (20 cm) of garden soil. The interval between seeds is about 70 cm from each other. The bed is covered with polyethylene, pulling it on arcs. Airing is necessary every day, since high humidity is harmful to zucchini. So the best option is a cover material that allows air to pass through. If there is heat, the covering material is left for a day only from the north side.
Care for zucchini is the same as for zucchini: watering, weeding, top dressing and loosening. Plants need to remove the lower tier of leaves, which is rapidly aging. Feeding for zucchini is a complex mineral fertilizer and organic, as well as for zucchini. But the amount is taken less (as for feeding cucumbers).
Mulching is also necessary for zucchini. You can use black plastic wrap. As they ripen, the zucchini is cut with a knife at least twice a week along with the peduncle - about 20 cm.The zucchini ripens more slowly than zucchini, but retains its taste for longer without being cooked, as well as after cooking. Zucchini is well stored in the refrigerator in plastic bags. The only condition is to prevent condensation from forming on the fruit.
Where to get the seeds of zucchini?
Summer residents receive zucchini seeds on their own: in the fall, just before the frosts, the fruits are removed and left in the room in the light. It is time to get the seeds when the fruits turn yellow. About 20 g of seeds are obtained from one zucchini - this is more than a hundred pieces.
When growing zucchini on seeds, one must remember that these are cross-pollinated plants that can easily be dusted with pumpkin, zucchini and patissons growing on your site. Therefore, wishing to preserve the purity of the variety, pollinating zucchini is better by hand. To do this, several flowers are "hidden" from bees, putting on them gauze pouches. In the early morning, pollen from the male blossoming flowers is transferred to the pistils of female flowers. For this purpose, you can use a brush.
Reference by topic: Growing zucchini in the country, care, recipes
DOGS AND ZUKINI IN THE GREENHOUSE
Growing zucchini and zucchini in greenhouses and greenhouses has its own features of agricultural technology.
It is necessary to regularly ventilate the greenhouse so that it does not have high humidity, unacceptable for zucchini. The optimum humidity is 60-70%.
If the plants have grown, it is necessary to carefully remove the leaves from the lower and middle parts of the bushes. The optimum temperature regime is + 24-26 ° C during the day and + 14-15 ° C at night. At the flowering stage, zucchini and especially zucchini are very demanding on temperature and can lower the ovaries when it is lowered. After the fruits have set, the temperature can be reduced. Zucchini and zucchini grow well in the greenhouse even after the first autumn frosts, although it is better to harvest the last crop earlier.
THE MOST EARLY YIELD
An early crop of courgettes can be obtained if grown in greenhouses heated by biofuel. For small greenhouses and greenhouses, early varieties with compact bushes are selected, early and unpretentious: Roller, Anchor, a hybrid variety of Belogor, as well as varieties of zucchini Zebra, Tsukesh, Aeronaut. They easily tolerate drought and lower temperatures.
In such greenhouses, vegetable marrows are planted in late March - early April. Hot manure is placed in the pit of the greenhouse (with a layer of 50-70 cm). Soil is poured on top of biofuel with a layer of 20-30 cm. Soil composition: garden earth, peat, humus (5: 3: 2). To the resulting mixture (per bucket) add 100 g of wood ash, 30 g of superphosphate and 20 g of ammonium nitrate, mixing well.
If zucchini are planted in hotbeds at a later date, as a second crop, the soil should be dug by adding a fresh substrate from the vegetable garden, peat and humus (5: 3: 2). The mixture is poured into the hills by 50-55 cm, width about 50 cm.
The feeding area of a single plant must be at least a square meter. In the film unheated greenhouses (without biofuel) zucchini planted in early May.
Seedlings aged 3-4 of these leaves should be planted in the holes. Previously, the soil in the wells should be moistened. Deepen young plants to cotyledon leaves. The temperature in the greenhouse at this stage should be maintained at +15 ° C.
Ventilate greenhouses in the early spring should be careful not to freeze plants. But the ventilation of courgettes is necessary, because they do not like high humidity. In the afternoon, the hotbeds are freed from additional shelter by mats, and at night they are again insulated.
Each watering should be plentiful enough. Water temperature - +25 ° С. Top dressing is carried out every 10-15 days - they bring organic matter and mineral fertilizers.
Organics: 10 L Mullein on 10 L of water. Chicken manure is added in the proportion of 800 ml to the same volume of water.
Mineral dressing: 30 g of ammonium nitrate, 50 g of superphosphate and 30 g of potassium salt per 10 l of water.
Mulching is very important when growing zucchini in greenhouses, it reduces the humidity of the air, reducing the evaporation of moisture from the soil. As a mulch, peat or sawdust can be used with the 3-4 layer.
After 35-40 days after the planting of the seedlings in the greenhouse, it is already possible to shoot the first crop. Squash is cut with a sharp knife. On average, from a square meter of greenhouse per season, you can get about 12-15 kg of courgettes.
Reference by topic: Pumpkin - photo planting and growing from A to Z
BOILLERS IN BOCHKA
The method is that zucchini are grown in barrels filled with fertile soil.
Thus, a large number of bushes of zucchini can not be grown, but this is not necessary: usually a summer resident collects such a crop of zucchini by the autumn that he is often forced to dig them into the ground and make compost from them. Zucchini grows best in barrels - these plants have much more compact bushes. In barrels, the soil warms up deeply, but zucchini and zucchini are very fond of when the roots are warmer than the aerial parts. The earth is warmer - it means that the root system is more powerful, the plants are stronger and the yield from one bush is larger. The leaves do not touch the moist surface of the earth, which means that the plants do not suffer from fungal diseases. And one more plus: in order to take care of zucchini, one does not have to bow low, which is especially valuable for older people.
When growing in a barrel in the bottom of the tank, drainage holes of large diameter are made so that water does not stagnate during irrigation, otherwise root rot will develop. You can simply dig a barrel without a bottom into the ground. A drainage layer is placed at the bottom of the barrel - for example, brushwood. A drainage layer is necessary even when using a barrel without a bottom. Next, the barrel is filled with garden soil mixed with peat and humus (4: 2: 1), and seedlings are planted.
Fruits of Labor
To each bush gave 20-40 courgettes for the summer, they should be removed fairly young. Moreover, the "milk" zucchini is more delicious and more useful than over-ripe ones.
With a view to long-term storage zucchini is removed directly with a long peduncle. Keep them better in an upright position, near the wall. Zucchini stored better than zucchini-during storage these vegetables appear dense peel, they do not lose moisture and can not be spoiled for a long time even in the apartment. A mature zucchini is stored in the basement on average about five months.
Zucchini reach maturity, depending on the variety: if the variety is designed for long-term storage of fruits, then they will mature longer than the early ones, which are kept worse. But in general, the first crop ripens in about 20-25 days after flowering. The zucchini is ripe, if the peel to the touch is firm, and when tapping on the vegetable marrow a deaf sound is heard.
Problem | Cause | Solution |
The greens turn yellow and rot. | This means that fertilization has not occurred. The reason can be like a cold summer and not fly out of insect pollinators, and the use of pesticides during the flowering of courgettes. | Manual pollination of zucchini in the morning. Also, an event necessary in such a situation is to cover the plants at night, if the nights are cold. |
Ovaries on the bush do not appear. | Also the reason is that pollination has not occurred. | Also artificial pollination. |
In zucchini an ugly form, their end is inflated and looks like a ball. | Plants do not have enough potassium. | Sprinkling of bushes with "Uniflor-micro" solution (2 tsp for 10 l of water). Spraying should be done only in the evening. You can simply scatter on the wet soil ash (0,5 l per bush). |
Inhomogeneous color of zucchini, with the tip of the fruit pointed. | This indicates a shortage of nitrogen. | Feeding infuse weeds, manure, compost, bird droppings. |
Decay of large zucchini. | This is the result of excessive watering. | Watering stops and over zucchini in rainy weather we make a film canopy. In order not to cut a decayed zucchini, you can simply cut the rot to a healthy tissue and burn a cut above the candle flame. |
INCREASE YIELD
The yield of zucchini in the first place is affected by fertilizing. And if usually zucchini are fed twice during the growing season, then in order to increase the yield of these plants, they must be fed three times per season.
Particularly responsive zucchini to organic: water infusion Mullein 1: 10, water infusion of chicken manure 1: 15. You can use this feeding scheme:
- Before flowering - half a liter of mullein and 1 tbsp. l nitrophosks per 10-liter volume of water: zucchini feed at the rate of 1 liter of mixture per plant.
- At the flowering stage - 0,5 l of chicken manure and 1 tbsp. l Integrated mineral fertilizer per 20 liters of water: zucchini feed at the rate of 3 liters per 1 square. m. landings.
- At the stage of fruit ripening -2 st.l. nitrofoski on 10 l of water: zucchini feed on the basis of 2 l per bush.
It is also important to ensure quality pollination of courgettes. Will help spraying flowering bushes zucchini and zucchini with sugar water or honey solution -1h. l. honey on 250 ml of water.
Another factor is the timely harvest. Zucchini is better to pluck when they reach a size of 15-25 cm, zucchini - 10-15 cm. Outgrowing, the fruits cause the plant to direct all forces into them, and the development of new ovaries is delayed.
DISEASES AND PERGUAGES OF KINRYS
PERONSPOR03 (FALSE MASCULAR ROSA)
Spores of fungi, which are the causative agents of peronosporosis, feel good when zucchini and zucchini are watered at low temperatures. Especially with high humidity. More often affects plants at the stage of fruiting.
Zucchini and zucchini, like pumpkin, are affected by powdery mildew, root rot, bacteriosis - we have already talked about the symptoms and the fight against them, talking about pumpkin. As with the spider mite and gourd aphids, which do the most damage to zucchini. Another common problem of zucchini and zucchini in summer cottages is peronosporosis (downy mildew).
Symptoms
The leaves are covered with polyhedral oily greenish spots. A week passes, and the spots become larger and acquire a brown tinge. The leaves seem to be burned. With the further development of the disease, a few days later, the affected leaf withers.
Methods of struggle
The disease is fleeting, therefore it is necessary to act immediately. At the first signs of peronorrhea, watering is stopped, as is top dressing (at least for a week). Plants must be treated with a solution of copper chloroxide and polycarbacin (drug temperature + 24-25 degrees). Another way to combat the fungal pathogen is to spray with a solution of whey. Having completed the processing of plants, it is necessary to ventilate the greenhouse. During the week, the air temperature should not fall below + 22-25 in the afternoon and +18 at night. That is, zucchini and zucchini must be covered.
Prevention
It is unacceptable to grow zucchini and zucchini in beds where during the past warm season, vegetable cultures of the pumpkin family were grown.
VERTICAL BACTERIOSIS OF FRUITS
Risk factors are waterlogging of the soil and air. Watering with cold water. Poor air circulation around the squash.
Symptoms
Yellowing and decay of the zucchini and zucchini. Ovaries and fruits cease to develop, outwardly the fruit becomes vitreous. Later, brown spots appear on the ugly fetus.
Methods of struggle
Unfortunately, if the symptoms of bacteriosis have already appeared, the plant cannot be saved. The fight against bacteriosis is the sowing of healthy seed material. Sowing material is recommended for 2-3 months prior to sowing, pickle with “granosan” (2-3 g per kg of seeds) or with TMTD (3-4 g per the same volume of seeds). You can also take dry heating of seeds (temperature 60 ° C), but first you need to do a warming up of a test batch, and then check their germination. All seeds can be warmed up if the germination rate of the test batch decreases by no more than 5-10%.
Often squash and zucchini damage the scoop larvae: they gnaw the stem and feed inside it, as a result the plant is killed. To prevent damage to the scoops zucchini and the soil around them pollinate drug DDT at intervals of 50 days.
CULTIVATION OF WOODS - LANDING AND CARE: TIPS FOR GARDENERS AND CAMPAIGNERS
THE RIGHT HILLS - AND THE POOL IS AT LEAST
By the way, about the same zucchini. I, too, at first could not find a common language with them. But gradually, on the basis of her own and other people's advice and mistakes, she understood what they wanted.
The first, most important condition is to plant them less often (in the photo shown in Lyudmila's letter, it can be seen that the landing is too frequent). After all, each plant needs at least 1 square meter. m, otherwise their whips will climb on top of each other and begin to hurt.
The second condition is properly prepared land. When planting, I pit in a hole for a good handful of ash and humus (if it is not there, I take simple mowed grass and husk of onion), mix well with the soil and pour over warm water.
The third condition is that zucchini should grow on the knolls, and they should be watered in ditches, which are dug around them in a radius of 40-50 cm. And then some gardeners pour water directly on the leaves, and then they are surprised that the plants die.
Personally, when I do watering, I also closely follow the fact that the tops of the mounds remain dry and at the same time be well covered up. Then there will be no rot. By the way, for irrigation I also mulch.
In general, the decay of young zucchini zucchini (yes, by the way, and all pumpkin) occurs not only from excess moisture, but also from dust-free flowers.
I often pollinate them by hand - picking a male flower, picking off the petals and pestling along the stamens. Nothing complicated, everyone went through botany at school.
And why flowers are not pollinated?
And from the greatly expanded leaves, which obscure them. Therefore, when the bushes grow, I thin the leaves mercilessly every week.
On the tops of the hills I also regularly pour sand and mulch - I watch so that the roots are not exposed. I plant only three plants, and I have enough zucchini for the whole summer, and in winter the supply remains.
To do this, you need to leave a few pieces from mid-summer to autumn untouched, so that they become rougher - and so they lie quietly until spring in a cool place.
© Author: Lyubov Zelenina Samara Region.
Courgettes for winter storage
Zucchini for winter storage I choose with dense pulp and thick skin. Most of all I like how the fruits of varieties Aeronaut and Zebra are stored.
Watering - in bottles
In May, I sow seeds directly into the soil, through 1 -2 weeks in a phase of two cotyledonous leaves I plant the plants on a permanent place. Next to each bush I dig inverted 5-liter PET bottle with the cut off bottom - for watering. When bushes grow, I pour water into these bottles - in the end, after watering, the leaves always remain dry, and the marrows do not get sick. In hot weather, I pour out 3-5 liters of water every 8-10 days.
Once in 10 days I feed Mullein solution (1: 10) - according to 1 l for each plant. Weak bushes that grow poorly are sprinkled with nettle infusion. In living plants,
on the contrary, I break off the 3-4 of the bottom sheet and stop feeding. In the beginning of August before watering I pour under each bush 1 l of ash and apply a liquid top dressing (20 g superphosphate on 10 l of water).
Green on scratches
In the beginning of autumn I completely stop watering and liquid fertilizing. Young shoots I pinch, I break off appearing flowers and ovaries. For storage I cut zucchini and zucchini with a piece of stalk 5-6 in length. Sort the crop: vegetables with cracks, outgrowths - for food in the first place, and smooth and beautiful - for storage. If the damage is small, 2-3 cm, I clean it with a knife and cover it with greens.
In the basement I spread out the marrows on the shelves so that they do not come in contact with each other. Once in 2-3 weeks I turn over to another barrel.
DOGS IN CLAR
Most of all my family likes this dish.
Zucchini (1,5-2 kg),
2 eggs, 0,5 st. flour, 2-3 clove of garlic.
In a bowl, beat the eggs, add salt and ground pepper to taste. I add flour, mix until smooth. If the dough is dense (it should be like thin pancakes), I add a little water. I peel the garlic, pass it through the garlic and add it to the batter. Zucchini washing, peel, remove the seeds. I cut into rings or half-rings with a thickness of about 0,5 cm. I dip each piece into a batter and fry it in vegetable oil on both sides. Then I put everything together, close it with a lid and let it sit on the small fire until it is ready.
Lyudmila LASHUK
HOW BETTER TO STORE YOUR WOODS
When this year I saw a wild, crop of zucchini, I sounded the alarm. So much caviar caviar we would not have eaten in life, there are not so many cans for pickles.
We gave zucchini to friends, but still the harvest was too great. I thought that at home they would not survive until winter and were upset in advance, because the harvest is gone.
Store zucchini in the refrigerator can only be in the vegetable compartment at a temperature of about + 5С in a bag with several small holes for ventilation.
My mom saved me from panic, saying that the zucchini wintered well in a city apartment, or even until spring. The main thing is to collect them correctly, this is already half the battle.
Individual hanging in grids is considered the most effective way of storage.
Firstly, during the ripening of the harvest, it is possible and necessary to take off the young zucchini with a firm skin, which you can eat unpurified and even raw, in which there are so many summer vitamins. Secondly, when it comes time to collect fully ripened fruits, I do this: I collect fruits of medium size, which, when tapping on the skin, produce a dull sound. They should be both smooth and smooth.
Zucchini can be placed in a box, and between them lay corrugated cardboard.
I no longer twist the peduncle, because through the injured stem it is easy to get putrefactive microorganisms. The cut must be flat, at some distance from the fruit. To wash collected zucchini in no event it is impossible, I simply wipe them from the ground with a dry rag and put them to dry.
It is best to store zucchini in a cool, dark place. Subzero temperatures do not have a very good effect on the quality of the fruit. I put them on a shelf far enough from each other so that they do not touch. I do not put them next to other vegetables - they do not like the neighborhood. Zucchini only tolerates pumpkin.
Zucchini do not like not only drafts, but also stagnant air.
If I'm going to cook zucchini right away, then I just leave them in the kitchen. I don’t put it in the refrigerator - it’s too wet for the vegetable.
With proper storage, you can eat zucchini right up to spring, without throwing out a single fruit!
© Author: Gorovaya V.I., Tyumen region.
SELF-DUSTED WOODS IN THE MIDDLE URALS - TIPS FOR GROWING
I live in the Middle Urals. In childhood, they knew about the existence of this vegetable only from squash caviar, and thanks to a rhyme from the book "Baby Food": "Zucchini fritters are something new." About half a century ago, gardeners began to grow zucchini, carried woodpiles of half-meter fruits home and to the market and were proud of such a crop. Later, at the market in the city of Zaporozhye, I noticed some kind of short squash "undergrowth". Seeing my surprise, the saleswoman said that the zucchini should be as long as a man's palm, no more - then it is the most delicious.
Sorry for such a long introduction. With age, my memory becomes farsighted, pictures of distant childhood and youth are clearly seen ...
So how do you grow zucchini? Easy peasy.
For an early harvest, I grow zucchini through seedlings. The seeds are sold already treated with tiram, so don't soak them!
I plant sprouts with real leaves under a cropped bottle, and insert a paper tube inside so that the delicate leaves do not burn out under the sun. At night, I cover it with a cardboard box of wine, which I press down with half a brick.
I lay fertilizers and humus when planting, then I just water the whole season. Zucchini have no pests. I plant it on a high former cucumber ridge, upholstered around the perimeter with a white banner. White sides, on top of zucchini with large leaves, along the edges of the calendula. The beauty! White steamer in the tropics ...
And I decided to write for the following reason. In early November I went to the garden center to get seeds for the next season. I went early - I was afraid that they would be quarantined and I would be left without the seeds I needed, as it happened in the spring.
In May, I tear off a bag with zucchini seeds, the package says: the number of seeds is 5 pieces, and there are only three pieces in a double envelope. It's a shame. Such a deception by a well-known seed supplier with seven awards on the envelope ...
I think, what if these three seeds will not sprout, and the garden center is closed? And then I find out that none of my friends will be able to share with me, since they have no idea about hybrid parthenocarpic zucchini. They know about cucumbers, but not about zucchini ...
I have been growing self-pollinated zucchini for many years after I noticed that the ovaries were not developing well. "
Neither hand pollination, nor honey spraying, nor the abundance of flowers in the garden helped (photo 3). Insects are disappearing. There are no dragonflies, butterflies (except for cabbage), bees, gadflies, few bumblebees in the gardens, there were not even mosquitoes in the last hot season.
Of the pollinating insects, only wasps remained, and then their nests in greenhouses and pantries are destroyed: people are afraid that they will bite children. In our gardening partnership, a man died from a wasp bite while an ambulance was taking him to the hospital.
So, for family consumption, I choose parthenocarpic zucchini hybrids because they:
- ultra early;
- fruitful;
- well stored without losing their taste;
- are compact bushy plants with beautiful foliage;
- fruit is tied in any weather, since they do not require pollinating insects.
I wish everyone good health and good harvests!
© Author: Natalia S, Sverdlovsk region.
DELICATE WINTER ZOOK
Rather, it's not really a squash, but a squash-pumpkin.
You can plant a delicious winter zucchini by sowing seeds directly into the ground, or through seedlings.
We plant the seedlings in the ground at the age of 15-20 days. We maintain a distance of 70 cm between the plants. At first, cover the seedlings with a non-dense spunbond - 17 g / m2.
We add humus -5 kg per 1 m2 to the beds, add a glass of ash (per 1 m2) and dig it up. You can also plant seedlings directly in peat glasses.
After planting seedlings in open ground, we water and mulch with chopped straw.
In warm weather, water once a week with a bucket of water per 1 m2 of sowing. Reduce additional watering in wet weather. We water directly under the root of the plants so that water does not get on the leaves and stems in order to avoid rot and fungal diseases.
We feed the plants before flowering with mullein infusion in a ratio of 1: 10. During fruiting, once again feed the mullein or a solution of 30 g of superphosphate with 20 g of urea per bucket of water.
In the climatic conditions of Belarus, winter gourmet zucchini ripens at the end of September.
The fruits are stored in a cold place (cellar) until spring. During storage, zucchini accumulates sweetness, acquiring a taste similar to the taste of hazelnuts.
The size of the fruit of the winter delicacy zucchini directly depends on the weather conditions. This season, the length of the fruits was 30-35 cm with an average diameter of 14-15 cm. Last year, the fruits grew larger.
We eat delicious winter squash fresh, preserve it separately or with other vegetables. For culinary purposes, it can be used as a delicious zucchini filling for pies, donuts, crumpets.
© Authors: Igor and Zhanna Sychevy, Minsk (photo by the authors)
UNIVERSAL VEGETABLE-Zucchini
In almost all summer cottages, zucchini and zucchini are grown. These vegetables are loved for their unpretentiousness, fast growth and versatility. The fruits of zucchini are stewed, fried, pancakes and casseroles are prepared from them, used in vegetable and even sweet preparations.
I also grow these vegetables, I choose varieties of different colors. Of the favorite varieties - Caserta (green), Yasmine F1 (yellow), Zebra (striped), Ardendo F1 and Cavili F1 (light green).
I grow zucchini seedlings to get a harvest a couple of weeks earlier. I sow the seeds in small pots in mid-April, using the Garden Soil soil. Seedlings appear within a week. I put pots with them on the window, and when two real leaves appear, I transfer them to the balcony. So seedlings of zucchini do not stretch and harden before planting in the ground. During this time, I water with warm filtered water as the soil dries.
I plant seedlings in open ground in mid-May. Before planting, I add three handfuls of humus, a tablespoon of superphosphate and wood ash to each well, mix and plant plants. After planting, I water them, put arcs and temporarily cover them with covering material. I shoot it in the middle or end of June, I focus on the weather.
I water the plants regularly under the root with warm water to prevent root rot. Zucchini respond well to top dressing.
I spend them 2-3 times per season with liquid fertilizer for vegetables. During flowering, I also spray with boric acid (5 g per bucket of water, I first dissolve the acid in warm water) to avoid falling ovaries.
Zucchini can get powdery mildew. If this happens, spraying the plants with a solution of sour milk helps. For 3 liters of water I add 1 liter of sour milk and 1/4 teaspoon of copper sulfate. I spray 3 times with an exposure per week. You can also use the drug Fitosporin (I prepare the solution according to the instructions).
I cut zucchini regularly as they ripen, so as not to restrain the growth of the following fruits.
Ardendo and Cavili varieties are perfectly stored, so I keep the last fruits (which grow in early autumn) on the bushes longer so that the skin becomes tougher. I use them in winter.
© Author: Elena Kiryashina, Ulyanovsk Photo by the author
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Squash of milk ripeness is now popular, but I love the “barrels” - they are very convenient to use for harvesting.
For a long time I planted Gribovsky 37 - this variety is white-fruited, from one bush you can collect up to 8 kg of fruits, which are well stored and are great for canning.
A single plant variety Rolik can give up to 9 kg of fruit! I have been growing it for many years, and he never let me down. Even when it happens to be cold in the spring, Rolik persistently tolerates unfavorable conditions.
Variety Zebra I like for the fact that it has few seeds. They can even not be cut, but marinated semicircular slices entirely. The appearance of courgettes corresponds to the name of the variety, so that the fruits look beautiful both in the garden and in the pickles.
Recently started to grow a hybrid Iskander F1. The bush is compact, and the fruits grow large, which is what I need. I remove them from July until frost.
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Zucchini without pollen
There is no pollen on the flowers of courgettes. What to do?
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Zucchini refers to plants monoecious and dioecious.
That is, on one plant there are female flowers with an ovary and male flowers with pollen. In ordinary varieties, especially long-spangled, first in the nodes appear male flowers, and females appear later and on the lateral ripples. In the cluster zucchini female flowers appear later, but on the main stem. In a completely different way flowers are formed in zucchini courgettes, or Italian zucchini. In these zucchini the first female flowers are formed, and the men are late.
The first ovary may be parthenocarpic or the fruit shrivel. Many modern hybrids have a similar type of fruiting. For better tying fruit to them are planted
either ordinary cluster varieties, or the same hybrid, but grown much earlier. In greenhouses, such hybrids are artificially pollinated in the early stages, transferring pollen from the male flowers to the female flowers with soft tassels.
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I love dishes from young zucchini. That's why I was very pleased with the new varieties, which give long, thin and long not grubby greens. Most of all I liked the varieties with the skin of yellow color. They are more elegant and taste a bit sharper than those of green varieties.
Yellow-skinned zucchini has its own whims: they are more sensitive to the regime of watering. With a lack of water, the pulp coarsens and starts to be bitter, and with an excess of moisture, the embryos tend to rot. So I always plant squash in high loose piles of last year's humus and land. Moisture on such heaps does not stagnate and is well absorbed by loose humus.
My favorite yellow varieties are the following.
Yellow-fruited is an early ripening type of zucchini with thin long fruits. If the fruits are not removed young, then they continue to grow to a solid size. The flesh is a little coarse, but suitable for the preparation of caviar.
Gold Rush E is a Dutch hybrid that produces many tender fruits the size of an average cucumber. It’s better not to overwhelm them. The pulp is tender, tasty.
Helena - not only the skin is colored in yellow, but also the delicious pulp. The variety is a bush type, compact. But, since the fruits grow in tiers and lie on each other, you need to make sure that the lower ones do not rot.
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Winter delicacy zucchini is my pride. Unusual fruits have amazed even neighbors in the country!
To get the fruits as soon as possible, I grow seedlings. For better germination, soak the seeds in the growth stimulator clock on 5. I wash the washed seeds in a wet cloth, leave it for a day in a warm place. Sowing in peat pots, planting 3-week seedlings on the garden 18-22 May.
The winter delicacy needs fertile soil, saturated with organic matter, a sunny place to grow. In the rest, the usual care: timely watering, weeding and feeding. The unusual effect of fruits is due to its fin-
stand and color. Their surface is creamy, and the longitudinal grooves are dark green.
Winter delicacy is good not only from the outside, but also inside. The flesh is starchy, has a hazelnut flavor, it is sweeter than other varieties. In addition, this zucchini is very useful, suitable for dietary nutrition.
To save more vitamins, I make salad from raw zucchini, I can preserve them for the winter. But baking from them is excellent! The winter delicacy is well preserved until the new harvest, and with time its taste does not deteriorate, on the contrary, the flesh becomes even sweeter.
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To grow your favorite zucchini and pumpkins you need large areas, and a hundred, alas, only six. But I found a way out.
And began to grow curly squash. You say, these do not happen? So that's why we and summer residents, to make any fairy tale happen.
But seriously, I just made the lashes of plants climb up the twines stretched in a structure resembling a parallelepiped, measuring 1,5 × 2 m and a height of about 2 m. And it was assembled from old door frames that I picked up in the trash ( it's good that people are actively repairing their apartments - how much useful building material can now be found for free). The advantage of this method is that the fruits of zucchini on curly lashes hang like bananas, are well lit by the sun, and nothing limits their growth. Yes, and it’s convenient for me to follow them and shoot them when they are fully ripe. For five years now I have been using this design and am very pleased with the result. For example, this year Russian zucchini varieties simply shocked me with their size. The largest of the fruits weighed 12 kg, and at a length of 73 cm!
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My first attempts to grow zucchini ended badly. The bushes did not hurry to grow, and further the ovaries did not work. Although kind of watered from the heart, the site chose an open, sunny.
I consulted with my neighbors about the dacha and found out that the quality of the soil is very important for zucchini. I have it for the most part loamy, and this plant needs fertile, loose, high in sand.
I had to make a separate garden for the green sissy. First dug a trench 0,5 m deep, the ground removed mixed with the manure, 3-year-old compost and clean river sand. The volume of soil with additives turned out to be much larger, so
I had to make a high bed with boards from the boards. To make the air go better into the earth, drill small holes in the boards in random order. Not a bed, but a feather has turned out!
Sowed zucchini in the 2nd half of May - 2 seeds per each hole (then removed the extra plants). Cold for zucchini is fatal, therefore, when the temperature was predicted to decrease at night, set arcs and covered the bed with a film.
All my efforts were not in vain - in the summer I only had time to cut zucchini so that they did not outgrow! Now, in order to maintain crop rotation, he made a second trench bed and a series of zucchini with undersized tomatoes.
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I always try to grow something interesting in my garden. And here in the spring I caught a bag of zucchini seeds, but not simple, but spaghetti. The manufacturer claimed that if the ripe zucchini is cut in half and boiled, its fibrous flesh will taste like spaghetti. I wondered what kind of miracle this was, and decided to put it.
I grew it through seedlings: in the spring I planted a seed in plastic cups, and at the very beginning of June I planted it on a bed made of manure and covered with soil from above. The zucchini liked this, and he quickly went up. All care consisted in regular watering. I didn’t give any top dressing - and where else is the top dressing needed for it: and so it grows on the “cake” from the forage and manure!
The cabbage started to yield, and it was very interesting to watch it. Because on the packaging zucchini were with a yellow peel, and in the garden, one after another, the green-cheeks kept pace together.
I even thought that I mixed up and incorrectly signed the planted varieties. But there is nothing to do - it plucked the green fruits. They did not grow large and had a convenient portion size: about 25-30 cm in length. Later, after a month and a half, they began to turn a little yellow. I wonder why the seed producer did not indicate this feature of the variety? When I cleaned the zucchini and began to grate, I was very surprised. The pulp was really fibrous, harsh and resembled compressed noodles funchose. The yellowish-transparent strings gave in very poorly to the grater! But the experimental sample, which underwent conventional cooking, actually boiled into the finest pasta!
In general, this is a real find for those who want to eat right and are tired of ordinary stewed zucchini. From squash spaghetti you can cook many interesting and original dishes. For example, pancakes. My husband can’t stand ordinary zucchini, but he devours pancakes - he bursts behind his ears.
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To pluck their zucchini at the end of June, I plant them immediately on the bed, not the seedlings. Courgettes do not like transplantation, they are ill for a long time, which slows their growth
For sowing zucchini, I dig a hole with a bayonet spade with a diameter of about 40 cm, I put 1 / 2 buckets of manure there, threw the earth, I stick a ring from a five-liter plastic trunk inside which I plant the 2-3 seed and close it with a thick film. Abundantly watered if the land is dry.
Zucchini 'Aral' grows very well in our peat soil: it has a lot of fruits, but few leaves and seeds. The middle is very tender, we don’t throw it away - the whole zucchini goes to both cooking and preparation.
If under the guy from the bottle all the seeds have risen, then I leave only one powerful sprout, and the rest carefully cut out with scissors. But I do not pull it out so as not to damage the root system.
When the May night frosts pass, I take off the film. Kabachny grow on 3-4 weeks earlier than when planting seedlings.
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Squash secrets
Previously, it seemed to me that zucchini is a very simple vegetable to grow: where you stick a seed, it will grow there. However, in reality it was not so simple.
Zucchini does not like open spaces, not sheltered from the winds. I do not know why, but on such sites it develops more slowly than its counterparts, planted in a secluded corner behind a greenhouse or next to a fence. Knowing this, "in the open field" zucchini no longer plant.
Squash and pumpkin can not be planted near. They pereopyllyayutsya, and the harvest of those and others is reduced.
Courgettes do not tolerate the proximity of groundwater. They love surface watering, but when their roots are constantly in the damp cold earth, they start to grow poorly. A good solution will be high beds (I raised mine by 80 cm). A high bed is better warmed up, but it needs to be watered more than the low one.
Zucchini will not give a good harvest if they are not pollinated. In the flowering period, in order to lure insects, you need to spray the plants with sweet water (100 g of granulated sugar per 1 L of water).
Tatiana Lushchikova A, Kostroma
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All summer I used only environmentally friendly cosmetics - based on fruits and vegetables grown in my garden. But the strawberries left at the beginning of summer, the last cucumber was eaten a month and a half ago, and you always want to look young and beautiful. There would be time to get upset, but I found a way out - I make masks for face and hair ... from the pulp of zucchini! Zucchini is rich in trace elements and vitamins, thanks to which coarsened and dry skin is restored. But most importantly, zucchini helps prevent wrinkles.
It’s clear that zucchini, like a cucumber, can’t be placed on the face with circles. From it it is necessary to make gruel by rubbing the pulp on a fine grater. Put gruel on face and décolleté for 15-20 minutes. Then rinse with warm water. If you make a squash mask 2 times a week, the result will be noticeable in a month - the skin of the face and neck will become more toned and young.
Zucchini gruel can also be rubbed into the hair to prevent the appearance of gray hair and improve the condition of the scalp - keep it for 20 minutes, and then wash your hair.
And that zucchini were juicy and more actively saturated with vitamins, in summer they should be watered heavily. They, of course, are unpretentious and can safely grow and without abundant watering, only then one should not rely on their high cosmetic benefit.
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The yellow mosaic of courgettes is a dangerous viral disease, so, really, the only way out, if the plants are already sick, is to snatch them and burn them. The author has worked well on prevention: indeed, white mustard crops heal the soil. And, of course, resistant to yellow mosaic varieties also did their job.
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I grow zucchini immediately in the ground and do not do the transplant.
I plant seeds in the ridges and cover with 5-liter plastic bottles (from water and sunflower oil). Plants grow strong and healthy, and pests under this capacity do not stick a nose.
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Zucchini on leaf featherbed
Once, courgettes were considered a delicacy. Growing them for some reason, a little, but we did not hurry to cut the fruit, until it reaches such a size that it is enough for
! all. Sown zucchini immediately into the hole, seasoning it with compost with the addition of mineral fertilizers. Many years have passed since then, now I use a different planting method, which allows us to harvest an incomparably larger crop. An old man who accidentally met in a store *] told me about this method. Before landing J | he dug seedlings not holes, but I whole planting holes - not less than 50 × 50 cm. Then he took a bag and collected fallen dry leaves in a nearby forest. He filled pits with them, covered them with earth and planted seedlings in them. Zucchini, he said, grew by leaps and bounds.
Since then I have been growing zucchini that way. with the only difference that I collect the foliage not in the forest, but from my own site. I also fill the pits with plant debris and water the microbiological fertilizer diluted in water, which accelerates the process of decay and at the same time feeds the earth. A month later - by the time seedlings grow in the greenhouse - the soil for planting zucchini is ready. Even better, if you prepare the place in advance - in the fall, but you need to water it with the drug at least a month before the onset of cold weather, so that the living bacteria have time to work, and not freeze.
Now I have such a crop of zucchini that sometimes I don’t even know where else I can use them — I fry, stuff, prepare for the winter, and distribute to friends!
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Last year the summer was rainy, but it did not stop my zucchini giving an excellent harvest. In the autumn I cooked so much caviar roe that we whole family ate it until the very spring!
If zucchini thickened, if you do not wring out excess leaves on the lashes, even in the dry summer under the bush the earth remains moist. We must ensure that the fruits themselves do not lie on wet ground. Therefore, I pour water not on the leaves, but under the root.
In order not to follow constantly, in the wet or dry land lie the fruit, in the spring after applying fertilizer and digging I pour on a bed of 3-4 cm of sand. The development and growth of zucchini is not a hindrance, but it saves water from moisture perfectly. Even with a cold summer, when at night zucchini should be covered with non-woven material, on the sand they do not damp and do not rot.
Do not wait until the zucchini grow to huge sizes. It is better to tear them off and use them for food in the milk ripeness stage. And for caviar you will have time to grow new fruits from mid-August to mid-September.
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To get a crop of courgettes from June to August, I recommend growing at least a few plants in the greenhouse. The best grades for a closed ground are early varieties that do not grow too much: Tsukesh. Roller, Aral F1.
Fill the beds with humus. Pour the wells, pour in ashes on each handful. If using seedlings, transplant with an earthen lump. When flowering begins, plant zucchini for a few days on a dry diet: when the soil is dried, female flowers will be better formed. If the weather permits, in the daytime keep the ventilators open so that the insects can pollinate the flowers without hindrance.
If it is wet and cold, do the pollination by hand (you need to transfer the pollen from the flower to the flower with a soft brush). Feed zucchini solution of slurry (1 l to 10 liters of water). From pests, powder plants with ash or tooth powder. Do not allow thickening of bushes, break off excess leaves and make sure that the fruits do not overgrow.
From the temperature drops, which begin in August, greenhouse zucchini do not suffer. But with prolonged rains and a prolonged drop in temperature, they begin to bear fruit more poorly and grow more slowly, so it is better to harvest the entire crop before the arrival of frost.
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Show. please, how to properly break off the leaves in thickened zucchini. How many them to break, what, when?
Have planted quite often.
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I will clarify the question. How to understand how many leaves should remain so as not to remove excess.
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To the aid of zucchini
In comparison with other garden residents, zucchini do not require painstaking care. I only squander them at the beginning of the growing season. Adult plants do not need this, because under their extensive leaves usually weeds do not grow.
Zucchini are pollinated, as a rule, without problems, however, if the weather dragged on and the insects do not fly, I go to the rescue. Gently tear off the male flower, remove the petals and transfer the pollen from it to the female flowers (they differ in thickening from the bottom). The best time for this is from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. If zucchini does not have male flowers, pumpkin or squash flowers are suitable for pollination.
And to attract bees I breed 2 tsp. honey or sugar in 1 a glass of water and spray the plants in the early morning.
Zucchini can not be formed, but if the bush or whip has grown too many leaves, I cut the largest ones. Then the plant is better heated by the sun and more ovaries are formed.
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Despite the fact that zucchini does not need molding, for better lighting, ventilation and pollination, even in plants of bush varieties I remove a couple of large leaves from the middle. But in zucchini sticks, I pinch the main stem length 1-1,3 m, just begin to tie buds, and lateral whips - when they reach 40-50 cm. Also delete the old lower and dry leaves.
And to attract the bees flowering plants in the morning I can sprinkle with honey solution - 1 tsp. I plant in a glass of water.
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Zucchini is the most tender vegetable in all respects in my garden. Firstly, it tastes good, as I take the fruits small, not allowing them to grow to gigantic proportions. Secondly - according to growing conditions: it’s important for my sissy to get watering, top dressing and heat on time.
Heat for him is especially important. And although I plant zucchini when nocturnal frosts are already there, the first 2 weeks every night I install a "tent" over them, made of polyethylene film and wooden slats. Even one cold night can bring irreparable harm to plants.
Before the flowering begins, I water the garden 1 once a week in the evenings with water that has been warmed for a day in the sun. I pour water under the root, I definitely use a watering can with
nozzle, so that the water jet does not damage the tender roots. Weeding should also be done very carefully, since the root system of the vegetable marrow is superficial. During flowering, I add the mullein to the water for irrigation (100 g per 10-liter watering can).
To scare away the most common pest of this culture - the spider mite, I spray the zucchini twice a season with infusion of potato tops.
When the bushes grow older, I remove 2-3 the largest leaves to get more sunlight on the fruit. The first fruits, as soon as they reach 15-20 cm, I shoot. This, by the way, contributes to the formation of new ovaries, so from July to September, I always have fresh squash.
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Someone would share the unusual experience of growing zucchini ...
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I cover the garden with a slate, I lay cardboard on the bottom, newspapers (that is), in the summer I poured in the sloping and weeded grass, all vegetable waste, pour peat, I shed with Baikal's solution. If there is no rain, periodically watered. For winter I close the garden with black lu-trasil, and in the spring I make cross-shaped incisions in it and plant squash (you can pumpkin). In autumn, I remove lutrasil, sow the area with siderata - and by next spring I get a smart garden bed! Has done so already a few.
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Zucchini often suffer from the marbling of the leaves. It is clearly visible alternating light green and brown color of the leaves, and near the veins the plate remains green, the fruits are formed small.
The appearance of marbling may indicate a lack of magnesium in the soil. Particularly affected plants grown on sandy loamy soils. When this non-infectious disease appears, supplementation with magnesium and molybdenum (3-5 g molybdenum-ammonium ammonia at 10 L of water) is necessary. Of magnesium fertilizers, it is best to add magnesium sulfate in the soil at a dose of 1-3 g / m2.
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Owners of small plots often combine planting vegetables and flowers, turning the garden into a flower bed. In this respect the courgette is quite good as the center of the composition. Its large leaves, especially in variegated varieties, retain their ornamentality until the fall, and the huge yellow flowers are very elegant and a bit like a daylily.
The flowers of the zucchini are dioecious: females form the fetus, while the males are raised on long thin petioles. For pollination, it is enough to leave 1-2 male flowers on a bush, the rest immediately after blossoming can be torn off and used for food (they are added to salads, fried in batter).
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Zucchini can be planted after any crops, except pumpkin, and they themselves are good precursors for root crops and onions.
Like other pumpkin, zucchini and squash prefer a loose, water-permeable, rich in organic soil. On poor soils, they need to prepare multi-layered beds: a thick layer of organic material (manure, straw cutting, thawed hay, leaves, dead sawdust), lightly flavored with superphosphate, is laid on the ground, and vegetable garden lands are piled on top.
However, it is not necessary to cut the bed "under the fluff." The root system of zucchini is powerful, rapidly extending to a depth, well utilizing cavities in a coarse substratum. Therefore zucchini is often grown on immature * compost piles (the first year of laying) or simply on piles of plant residues. Before planting, the pile is slightly loosened with pitchforks, a bucket of earth is piled on top, where the seeds are planted or the seedlings are planted.
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The choice of varieties of courgettes is quite large. Now the most widely used varieties of salad dressing such as zucchini {Aeronaut, Zebra, Iskander F1, Linutsa P, Tsukesh, Pharaoh). Their long earthen, thin, seminal chamber remains small for a long time. The color of the skin is often bright or dark green, monochrome or with light strokes and stripes.
Those who like to cook caviar caviar, you can advise the variety of domestic breeding {Gribovsky 37, Pear-shaped, Beat-lobed. Roller. White). They keep up with other vegetables included in this dish: tomatoes, carrots, onions.
Such zucchini have a slightly mealy pulp, perfectly suitable for processing; they, like a sponge, absorb the taste and smell of other foods and seasonings. Mature greens are covered with a hard crust and stored for a long time. Skin color is usually pale green, almost white.
Gourmets can be offered unusual spaghetti squash (Tivoli F), Spaghetti). In mature, especially some time after lying down, the flesh of the flesh after the heat treatment breaks up into long fibers, similar to macaroni. Of these, original salads, side dishes, casseroles are prepared.
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For quite a long time, to the courgettes in Russia were treated as an early variety of pumpkin.
Fruits were grown to impressive sizes, and then they were cooked like a pumpkin: cut off the tough peel, removed seeds, separated a thin layer of pulp. So far, some gardeners are proud to show zucchini the size of a small log.
However, the nutritional value of such a "log" is small: the flesh is usually tasteless, odorless, not juicy. Not-
It is surprising that zucchini were considered a vegetable "for an amateur".
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, European culinary recipes and new varieties of this remarkable plant began to penetrate into our country. Then many were surprised to learn that the fruits of zucchini should be removed very young, immature. They can eat raw, bake, stew. They are juicy, they retain a delicate, but dense consistency and have a pronounced taste when cooked.
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According to the peculiarities of growth, zucchini can be divided into chunky and bushy. Climbing, like most representatives of the family of pumpkin, form long stems with rare leaves and fruits, crawling on the ground. The ovaries on one plant are few, but they manage to fully ripen during the season and are then well preserved. To increase the yield, the tips of the lashes are plucked.
Shrub zucchini form a compact bush with one short thick stalk. The distance between the leaves is very small, the fruits grow in tiers and often lie on top of each other. When thickened planting bushes are poorly ventilated, flashes of rot are possible. Therefore, plant shrub courgettes freely, one meter apart.
In some hybrids (Kavipi F1.Songrum F1) several ovaries are formed at once in one node. This allows you to get a lot of small greens from one plant.
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For zucchini - a "bath" with airing
I grow zucchini by sowing germinated seeds directly into the open ground. And I’m doing this a couple of weeks earlier than recommended for our area - in the first half of May. This allows you to quickly get the first crop.
Perforated film
But for such an early sowing, it is necessary to cover the bed for the first time with a polyethylene film stretched over arcs from a wire. However, the film must let in air, so that under it there is not too much moisture that zucchini does not tolerate. The problem is solved as follows: the film must be made perforated. To do this, take
punch with a diameter of 1 cm or the same thickness as a steel pipe with sharpened edges at one end and through every 5 cm in a square-nest way to punch holes. This creates ideal conditions for zucchini. However, if frosts, destructive for this southern zucchini, are expected, a tight spunbond or sackcloth should be pulled over the film.
Sowing
Under zucchini, it is best to arrange something like a warm bed. I sprinkle a small pile of compost, plant debris and half-ripened manure. From it I form a garden bed with a height of about 20 cm. I drink it with a solution of complex mineral fertilizer, and on top I pour a spoil of garden soil - 15-20 cm. I place the seeds flat in the holes of 2 pcs. to a depth of about 5 cm. The distance between plants is 70-80 cm. After emergence, I remove the extra ones.
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Last year I received a good harvest of courgettes. That's just to keep the crop did not work. Very quickly, the fruits began to deteriorate. What conditions are needed so that zucchini are kept longer?
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If the zucchini is properly stored, they can lie for 3-4 months, or even more. We transport the collected fruits to a city apartment. For storage, we select vegetables without external damage, signs of disease. Even when collecting, we leave a long leg - 4-5 cm. It dries up and, as it were, clogs the fetus, and it is also easy to determine from it what state it is.
Zucchini is placed in wooden boxes, after wrapping each vegetable with thick paper. We arrange them in boxes so that they do not touch each other, and for reliability, we separate them with cardboard partitions. We put the boxes in the corridor near the front door - it is the coolest place there.