How to harvest a rich crop of zucchini: summer residents forget about this

06.08.2024 18:39
Updated: 08.08.2024 20:21

Usually there is no shortage of zucchini crops, but if there is a need to increase the yield, then this can be done very easily.

In addition to fertilizing, watering and other agricultural practices, it is very important to adhere to the schedule for harvesting zucchini and squash.

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Nobody likes overgrown zucchini. They have large, tasteless seeds, hard skin, and the core becomes cottony and tasteless.

Such vegetables are only suitable for feeding domestic animals or for winter preparations.

Therefore, gardeners are advised to harvest zucchini on the seventh or twelfth day.

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To put it simply, zucchini is harvested at least once a week.

The trick is not only that the zucchini will be young and tastier, but that frequent harvesting increases the yield.

The same goes for zucchini.

Frequent picking also increases the number of new ovaries on the bushes.

But unlike squash, zucchini can be harvested not by time, but as soon as the vegetables stretch to 15 centimeters in length.

Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti