Want to put the ZOOSH in your zucchini? Put some COOOR in your courgettes? Well there are a few tricks of the trade you need to know first. Luckily, Ben, your friendly backyard gardener is here to the rescue with his top tips for growing Perfect Zukes every time! 💚
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Choosing an organic fertilizer: https://youtu.be/RmAJoKDB_3Q
3 Ways to Build Soil Health: https://youtu.be/L14woJZEJnk
Feeding your soil with kitchen waste: https://youtu.be/ZQAEQMvEtA0
If you have trouble getting your zukes to fruit, try this video which explains everything you need to know about their pollination:
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I live in Louisiana and squash borers are definitely a problem. I am trying a couple of plants. Got flowers and keeping my fingers crossed
I start from seed in my greenhouse in AZ, zone 7B. Just got male flowers today! Fun!
Sure like to see the fruits too.
I have one with 3 fruits joined together like conjoined triplets, any ideas why this might happen? I have a photo but cannot upload it here.
You are entertaining. And good gardener too.
i realized i wasnt going to be able to learn anything when the man said "its not chawk-ah-blouk just yet", and i knew that we spoke different languages lol
i lost all my zucchini plants no fruit set no female flowers at all… any advice….
do you ever remove any older leaves etc
does every single female flower with fruit need to be pollenated in order for the fruit to be viable?
So… What do YOU think of your presentation. Not content, but how do you talk, write the copy, being affable and entertaining?
Things you may want to consider doing differently? Hmmm?
My yellow zuchinni for whatever reason are just pumping out the female flowers👌
I like your vids ,please improve your audio 😊😊 f j b 😊
Thank you as always gr8 tips
Aren't those bottles than were put in the ground to water the plants too far away? surely it'll take a while for the roots to reach them and even then they are all on one side?
Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I’m a beginner gardener. I’m growing Zucchini and as of today I noticed that they now have budding yellow flowers that haven’t opened yet. Looking forward to hopefully harvesting Zucchini at some point. I am using cedarcraft elevated self watering planter boxes.
Zucchini is quite a good choice for container gardens because it has relatively shallow roots. A container that is around 12 inches deep should be sufficient. However, as a hungry plant, zucchini needs plenty of nutrients to grow and produce well. This means that the larger the container you can provide, the better.
This info is incredibly helpful, thank you! Precise (eg remove up to 1/3 of leaves at any time) and concise – no waffle. And after several years of occasional fruit rotting at flower end, finally a proper explanation! So many good details (eg all the reasons why removing leaves is helpful), and such an articulate presenter. Brilliant.
Three questions:
1. Can you please explain about what is meant by bush, trailing, compact etc? i find it all pretty vague and there's often not enough info on seed packets.
2. This year i have one plant, grown from seed, which i think said 'compact' on packet. It's enormous, though! Many huge leaves. It started fruiting rather late, compared with my partner's bought-in plant round the corner, which is still small but started fruiting almost indecently early. Can you explain this?
3. Is it possible to grow courgettes vertically, eg up arches to save ground space? If so, how and what kinds (see Q1!)?
Great & thorough video! Cutting up to 1/3 of the leaves really helped me! Cheers!
My plants aren’t producing a lot of fruit. Lots of male flowers or flowers dry up and fall off
This year has been disastrous for my zucchini plants. I have 3 plants and only for 3 fruits this summer. Early in the season I only had male flowers. Lately I am only getting female flowers. Is it possible to save pollen for later hand pollination. If so his – save whole flowers in the fridge, or pollen in fridge or freezer?