One of the vegetables that every gardener eagerly awaits is zucchini. It is immediately used for pancakes or fried in vegetable oil.
The plant is unpretentious in the truest sense of the word, but in order to harvest from several bushes until autumn, you need to sow the seeds correctly.
We will tell you about the timing and rules for planting this plant, on which the yield depends.
How to plant zucchini
You can use seeds or seedlings. In the latter case, the plant begins to bear fruit a little earlier. However, planting with seeds is simple, while summer residents have enough trouble with seedlings of heat-loving crops.
Sowing dates
Even when planting zucchini seeds, you can count on quick and friendly shoots, and therefore on a bountiful harvest.
In order not to make a mistake, it is not enough to rely on the recommendations of the lunar calendar. And although the zucchini is quite unpretentious, it is recommended to plant it with seeds in the ground in the southern regions.
On average, they start sowing in mid-May. But the main factor is the weather.
You can also use the flowering of gardens as a guide.
As soon as the petals fall, you can expect that there will be no frost and the weather will become truly warm.
But the most important thing is that before planting seeds you need to wait until the soil in the garden warms up to 20 degrees Celsius.
In this case, the seeds will quickly germinate and the zucchini will bear fruit without problems in open ground.
