Zucchini

I've been putting off doing a zucchini post because, to be honest, my zucchini isn't looking too good. 

It all started off well.  I planted 4 seedlings in this container (2 on each side) and they sprang right up.  Lots of leaves, didn't seem to be overcrowded, but I didn't expect the leaves to be so big!  (June 11th):

The first buds on June 14th:

The first blossom (June 17th):

Then came the dreaded cucumber beetles on June 20th along with ittle bittle fruit (which wasn't pollinated and withered away):

Exponential growth on June 27th:

Shortly after this the 4 zucchini plants flopped over and the leaves started bending and turning yellow.  Still getting zucchini, but it's just not as pretty as it was before.  As my friend Mary said, the zucchini would be a lot happier on the ground (July12th):

I'm pretty sure the one on the back left had bacterial wilt so I cut it off at the stem after harvesting exactly 1 zucchini from it.  I also removed all the yellow, dying leaves from the remaining 3 plants and it all looked a little bit better on Saturday:

In the comments on my GTS posting yesterday I was asked how many zucchini I expected these plants to produce.  Since I have absolutely no idea (first garden here folks), I decided I would keep track, although at this point I am afraid the plants are not going to last the season.  I'm already trying to figure out where I can plant zucchini in the ground next year.  The whole yard is riddled with tree roots so it is going to be an interesting problem to contemplate.  I didn't plant in containers just because they're pretty!

Zucchinis harvested to date: 4

UPDATE: I seem to get a lot of Google hits on this post from people searching for yellow dying leaves zucchini.  If that's how you got here, then you may want to check out the follow up post for what was wrong with the zucchini.

Comments

[layanee]

Well Heather, the planting container with the trellis is quite nice! Maybe you could plant some more right now, you might have time to harvest before it gets cold! Perhaps a bigger raised bed? Anyway, they did look great. Mine are off to a very slow start this year. I do have a couple of summer squash almost ready. Nice post. Gardeners are such optimists.

[Heather's Garden]

Layanee, I am debating putting in a row of beans in the back and watching them go up the trellis while the zucchini dies -- and I could put more herbs in the front when the zucchini goes. More yellow leaves tonight, but it's also producing zucs, so I don't know what's going on. I have to confess that I really don't taste much of difference between the zucchini from my garden and the zucchini from the grocery store. Whatever I grow next year (I'm thinking about cucumbers instead) will be a bush or climbing variety.

I thought of a raised bed too (in fact VPH even suggested one), and I may still go that way, but that area along the fence is really the only place that gets enough sun for a vegetable garden. The tree stumps would make putting a raised bed in really tough.

[Mummer]

like mother - like daughter? only, you're actually getting edibles!
i love grilled zukes and yellow summer squash - with that in mind, plus the cost of plain old yellow cooking onions here(over $1. a pound) i'm planning to plant a Fall onion crop. i'll just buy the zukes.

[layanee]

Beans would look great on that trellis! I have some scarlet runner beans on the tutuer in the garden but they are not doing too much yet. Hyacinth bean is pretty also but I don't think it is edible! That bed along the fence does look very nice but if you do put in raised beds you could just wrap them right around the stumps and use the stumps just as you have with containers. The stumps would decay faster with organic matter around them. Whatever you decide, I will be watching with delight! Check out Carol's raised beds over at May Dreams. You have probably seen them but she has beautiful beds.

[Michelle Phan]

Hi,
I admire your garden's info with picture.
May I ask what state you're are in zone 6B.
I'm living in New Jersey..I know for sure that my zone is 6 but I have no idea that it's zone 6A or 6B.
I'm not succesful with harvest. My garden is target of Deers, Rabbits, Squirrel...
I gave it up. But this year, one of friend in my husband's work give us a plant and I guess that is Zucchini..and I'm searching on internet to see how do trellis if it's necssary..and I found your webpage. It's wonderful and I wish that I know you in my neighborhood.
Michelle Phan

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