Hi I'm Jarrett from Stone Soup Farm and this
is how to grow Summer squash. Summer squash
of which zucchini is one type is a warm weather
plant. They are not frost tolerant but they
love the heat of the Summer. To plant them
one should prepare a nice bed in the Spring
after all danger of frost has left. Hopefully
you can get it nice and tilled up maybe with
a rototiller or by hand and incorporate as
much compost or manure as you can into the
soil. You can see that the plants are relatively
large plants about four feet in diameter so
if you do it in a raised bed system like this
I would plant about four to five feet apart
per plant or you could do it a little bit
closer if you would like to but they'll be
a little bit crowded and you get less per
plant. After you have sown the seeds you keep
them well watered throughout the season and
make sure that you control the weeds as much
as you can around the plant for increasing
the yields. Once they start to get big they'll
flower and after each flower comes the fruit,
the zucchini or the Summer squash. It is best
to harvest them when they are young and small.
They are very tender when you let them get
too old they will get a harder rind and the
seeds get a little mushy. Take it and cut
it off at the base. A lot of times they'll
even have their flower still at the end of
it and you can just take that off and there's
your harvest. Again they are a warm loving
plant so they will die in the Fall but they
also have some disease problems which are
unavoidable and it is good to plant more Summer
squash and zucchini every three or four weeks
depending on how much you want throughout
the Summer and when the frost comes it will
wipe them out and that's it for the year if
there's nothing else you can do. Summer squash
plants like these grow about the same. They
are very fast. They're very prolific and you
can get a lot out of them for not much work.
I'm Jarrett from Stone Soup Farm and that's
how to grow Summer squash.