How to Grow Zucchini Before Your Neighbors: 3 Tips from Experienced Gardeners

Zucchini can be safely included in the list of the most popular vegetables for growing in your garden. With proper care, you can collect so many fruits that you will not know where to put them.

True, you will have to wait until the harvest – usually until the second half of June. But this period can be significantly reduced: expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh told how to grow early zucchini in open ground.

Growing seedlings

If you want to speed up the appearance of zucchini, you should start growing the crop with seedlings, for which you must choose a windowsill on the sunny side - this is the only way the seedlings will be able to receive the necessary amount of sunlight.

The strengthened seedlings are planted, again, in a sunny place with fertile soil and a good drainage system.

Plant the seedlings at a depth that suits their roots and try to disturb them as little as possible during the planting process.

Using a mini greenhouse

If you don't want to bother with seedlings, sow zucchini seeds directly into open ground. Then take cut 5-6 liter bottles and cover the future plants with them.

In this way, you will create mini-greenhouses that will serve as protection for seedlings. If the weather is fine outside, the cover can be removed. But if there is a threat of frost, do not forget to return the improvised greenhouse to its place.

Proper care

No matter which method you choose – seedlings or using greenhouses, to get an early harvest of zucchini, you should water them regularly, especially during dry periods.

Do not forget about preventive measures to protect plants from pests and diseases. It is also necessary to fertilize seedlings.

When the zucchini have reached the desired size, do not delay in harvesting them - this will give the new fruits the opportunity to continue growing.

Use a sharp knife or garden shears to cut vegetables carefully to avoid damaging the stems.

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