Timestamps. I cover planting, pollination, brown tips, watering, fertilizing, pest & disease management, pruning, and harvesting for your summer squash and zucchini.
0:00 Introduction
0:49 Planting Strategies for Summer Long Harvests
3:50 Pollination – Male & Female Flowers and Brown Tips
6:40 Summer vs Winter Squash
8:00 General Watering Overview
10:33 Leaf Inspection for Pest Assessment
12:04 Basic Top Dressing & Fertilization
14:50 Direct Seeding vs Transplants
16:24 Plant Spacing
18:07 Basic Mulching & Water-Soluble Fertilizing
21:10 10 Second Pour – Water-Soluble ‘Monthly’ Feeding
23:09 Fungal Disease Spraying & Routine
27:23 A Basic Insect Dusting Strategy for Pests
30:24 Detailed Watering with Examples
35:18 Basic Planting Hole for Transplants & Direct Seeding
39:07 Pruning Basics & Leaf Removal
41:27 Harvesting (Simple Twist)
41:48 My Fully Pruned Zucchini Plant (How it Should Look)
42:43 Conclusion
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These are some plants i need to improve on.. Thanks Gary! Oh Yeah hope youwere clear of those tornados Teach. Me and my boys were thinking about Rusted Garden
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I love zucchini and squash but the vine borer moths are too relentless
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An old market gardener once told me put in another planting of both zucchini and cucumbers August first,everyone has them all summer long come fall nobody has them and everyone wants them!
I see a bug on your leaf 🍃 the one that is smaller
Your videos are getting way to long!
Won't that zucchini plant be long dead before the granular organic fertilizer becomes available to the plant? It seems like that side dressing is fertilizer that's going to help next year's garden
May want to give the Chapman 2000 sprayer a try. The HDX sprayers last one season for me. The Chapman takes spraying to another level.
great video learned a ton.
Thanks Gary. I was looking for info on this very subject. You answered all my questions!
I have such a small garden compared to yours, 6×3 raised bed. All male flowers! 😂
I sow one seed of my Yellow Zucchini mid March in zone 9 Phx by May i harvest my first 4 Zucchini. Just harvested the fourth time last night made Kung Poa Chicken 😋. I have more ready to harvest, too many! I sautéed or pit in Pasta. I water daily morning and evening with temperature rising. Today it's 112. Mine doesn't not look SUPER huge and healthy like yours but loaded of Zucchini. Ans bug free. I never had to spray my baby garden. My tomatoes aa well.
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Have you tried using vine borer moth traps?
Funny, zucchini plants are one of the few that don't get attacked by bugs in my area. One plant can go all season. Beets and chard, on the other hand, get attacked by leaf miners within a couple days.
Absolutely great vídeo. Thank you for all the information
You are a great daughter and a great person. Thank you for sharing your videos. God bless you and your family
The dust. When you wash it off, it goes to soil. Does it kill the good bug life in the soil?
Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea you can cut back zucchini. I also use mostly homemade compost and I get great crops. Thank you for the information on the bad insects. I saw the brown last year and I wasn't sure what caused it. I appreciate you mentioning zucchini since last was my first time growing. Seems us home gardeners are learning all the time.
Quick question! So should I wait to cut back the stems til I start seeing flowers or should I do it before? I have a few larger leaves but not sure if the under leaves are getting sun. When it's really hot outside I am indoors. Also what time of the day is the best time to prune. Last year I pruned my tomatoes early evening