vegetable
Zucchini
Direct-sow after frost. Two plants is enough. Three plants is a crisis.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Spacing
- 36 in
- Days
- 48–60
- Zones
- 3a–11a
How to sow
Direct-sow a week after last frost. Two plants. Hill or a 5-gallon pot is not enough for the vine to sprawl — give ground.
Harvest
6–8 inches. Daily. The baseball-bat fruit is a compost donation.
Mistakes that waste a packet
- Three plants
- Letting fruit get huge
- Overhead water on mildew-prone weeks
Three packets
Black Beauty
BeginnerThe zucchini everyone actually grows.
Costata Romanesco
FlavorRibbed, dry, and worth eating when you are tired of zucchini.
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Related
Tomatoes
Start indoors. Match days-to-maturity to the weeks you actually have after last frost.
Peppers
Need more heat and a longer indoor start than tomatoes. Short-season varieties matter north of zone 7.
Lettuce
The crop that makes a first garden feel like a garden. Sow in spring and again in late summer.
The sow list
A note when it is time to sow
Seasonal, not daily. We will send what to start in your zone, and skip the rest of the year.
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