Zucchini is a healthy vegetable variety. It contains fiber, vitamins A, C, D, minerals that normalize the gastrointestinal tract and cholesterol levels.
Zucchini is easily digested by the body, is included in dietary and children's menus. To get all this benefit, you need to learn how to grow a rich harvest using various life hacks.
Growing crops from seedlings
By growing zucchini using the seedling method, you can get an early harvest of the vegetable and start enriching your body already in the middle of summer. To do this, you need to choose early-ripening varieties, soak the seeds in water for 40-60 minutes.
Afterwards, transfer them to a prepared individual container, covering with film. Young seedlings should only be watered before planting in the ground, excluding fertilizing. It is recommended to plant young plants at night temperatures not falling below +15 degrees.
Pruning a bush
Not all summer residents know that zucchini bushes need to form green mass. The procedure should be carried out on a sunny day so that without rain the cut sites heal, not attracting bacteria and pests.
Leaves lying on the ground and very large specimens that create shade and make it difficult to ventilate the bush should be pruned.
It is also necessary to cut off barren flowers, which draw nutrients from the crop.
Fertilizing bushes
To ensure that zucchini bear fruit well, they need to be fed 3 times during the season:
• nitrogen fertilization 10 days after planting seedlings in the ground;
• at the beginning of the flowering of the crop with nitrogen herbal infusions;
• potassium fertilizing at the beginning of fruiting of bushes.
It is recommended to carry out top dressing by spraying the green mass. To prevent the saturated compositions of top dressing from harming the green mass, you need to choose a cloudy, warm day without rain.
Proper watering of crops
Zucchini is not a water-loving crop. It is recommended to water it as needed, when the top layer of soil dries out. In moderately warm weather, moisture should be added once every week and a half.
It is important to ensure that water does not stagnate when watering. Zucchini can quickly rot in such conditions. In addition, it is necessary to completely stop watering a week and a half before the big harvest. Otherwise, the fruits will accumulate water, will not be stored well, and will quickly rot.
Harvesting only young fruits
The first zucchini should be picked when they reach 15 cm in length. This will create stress for the bush, stimulating more active fruiting. You cannot leave the fruits until they are fully ripe, when they form seeds.
In this case, the bush devotes all its energy to reproduction, forgetting to bear fruit. Thus, harvesting young zucchini is a way to increase the amount of the harvest and eat tender, juicy fruits.
The listed recommendations will allow you to get tasty and tender zucchini without hard seeds, with the most concentrated composition. In addition, the gardener will get a rich harvest from each bush, which will be stored for many months.
