How to collect seeds of tomatoes (tomatoes), cucumbers and other vegetables from your garden in order to get a quality harvest for the next year? Let's talk about this in our article.

Seeds of annual plants

The easiest way to grow annual vegetable plants for seeds: dill, lettuce, radish, peas, beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, pumpkin, cauliflower, broccoli.

Gathering dill and lettuce seeds

In order to get high-quality dill and lettuce seeds in the middle lane, early-ripening varieties are selected, they are sown before winter, usually in early November. Crops are mulched with peat or humus. Next year, these plants will bloom 10-12 days earlier, which is very important for seed maturation. Umbrella inflorescences are harvested in August, when the seeds in them begin to turn brown, and the leaves on the stems dry out and turn yellow. Ripe inflorescences are cut early in the morning along with the stem, they are tied into sheaves and left in a well-ventilated area. After drying, the umbrellas are threshed.

Mid- and late-ripening varieties of dill and lettuce intended for seeds are first grown in greenhouses, sown in March, and seedlings are already planted in the garden in mid-May. In the south of the country, all varieties of lettuce and dill are sown only in early spring, as soon as the soil is ready for cultivation.

We collect seeds of radishes, peas and beans

Radishes are sown in the earliest spring. It is important that wild radish or other varieties of radish do not grow on or near the site. Plants that have formed a good root crop are left on the seeds. The pods are harvested when they begin to turn yellow and the seeds turn brownish.

Peas and beans are plucked for seeds not fully ripe, they are well dried along with the stems until the pods are completely ripe. Browned cauliflower pods are dried from two weeks to a month, and then threshed.

Collecting broccoli seeds

Blooms quickly, breaking up into inflorescences, broccoli. To get seeds, it is sown in a non-chernozem strip in mid-March and planted in the ground at the end of April. In the southern regions, all this is done a month earlier. To speed up the ripening of seeds, the side shoots in the axils of the leaves are removed in a timely manner.

Many amateur vegetable growers successfully receive seeds of their favorite varieties of cucumbers, zucchini, squash, pumpkins and tomatoes.

Collecting cucumber seeds

Cucumbers of the first collection are left on the seeds, growing on lashes from the axil of the first or second leaf. Above the fifth - sixth sheet of the whip is pinched. Wooden labels are tied to the stem. Seed cucumbers of early ripening varieties in the middle lane ripen in about 35 - 40 days after the formation of fruits. They are usually plucked at the end of August, when the lashes begin to turn yellow. Sometimes, due to bad weather, they are not completely ripe, but not earlier than after 25 to 30 days.

They remove everything at once or in two doses with an interval of two weeks and put it for ripening (ripening) for 15-20 days on a windowsill in a dry room at a temperature of 18-20 degrees. Usually such cucumbers are brown-brown with a grid of cracks or creamy yellow without a grid.

The earlier the cucumbers are removed, the longer the ripening period. If the fruits are not removed from the plant for up to 50 days, ripening is reduced to 10-15 days. It is not recommended to overexpose the fruits, otherwise the germination rate of seed germination deteriorates.

When the seed cucumber becomes soft, it is cut lengthwise. True, some experienced amateurs recommend cutting not lengthwise, but across and taking seeds from the half where the stalk is. The seeds there are larger, have high germination. The harvest is early and high.

The selected seeds, together with the pulp (pulp), are placed in a glass or enamel bowl. In metal, they will turn black. Day 3 - 4 seeds are fermented at room temperature, during which time the pulp is easily separated. Then they are washed well with water, stirring vigorously. When they settle after washing, the floating seeds and the remaining pulp are drained, the remaining seeds are washed 2-3 more times and laid out in a thin layer on glass, plywood or paper.

We collect seeds of zucchini, squash, pumpkin

The zucchini and squash left on the seeds are removed all at once. In the middle lane, the seeds of vegetables ripen well, growing up to 60 - 70 days. The collected seeds ripen on average 10 - 20 days. Mature seed plants are cream-colored, woody, their flesh is overripe, rough. Previously harvested fruits need more ripening: harvested after 50-60 days, they ripen for another 20-30 days, and after 40-50 days - 30-50 days. Seeds from fruits cut in half are selected by hand. Unlike cucumbers, they are not washed, but immediately dried in good weather outdoors, and in bad weather - under a canopy.

Pumpkin for seeds is left only from the first harvest, the peel of a ripe sick pumpkin is matte, sometimes reddish with a network of cracks. Seeds with pulp are scooped out with a metal spoon, fermented for 2-3 days, then washed on a sieve and dried in a thin layer in the air in the shade.

About cross pollination

When growing cucumbers, zucchini, squash for seeds, it should be remembered that different varieties can pollinate each other. From the resulting hybrid plants will be hybrid seeds. Therefore, it is better to grow one variety. Or do artificial pollination.

It is carried out as follows. Large, unopened buds of female flowers from healthy plants are covered with small gauze bags the day before blooming. Buds of male flowers are collected in the room. The bag is not closed so that the pollen does not sweat. Then the blossoming female flowers are pollinated with pollen of male plants and close again. When the fruits are ripe, the bags are removed.

Collecting tomato seeds

In tomatoes, the fruits of early-ripening, healthy productive plants are left on the seeds (preferably from the first or second brush). They are marked with a ribbon. Remove ripened red and brown. Brown ripen no more than two weeks, red - one week. Ripe tomatoes become bright and soft. It is not necessary to overexpose them, otherwise the sowing qualities will deteriorate.

The fruits are cut across and with a teaspoon spread the seeds along with the pulp in a glass dish. They are kept there for 2-4 days at a temperature of 20-22 degrees. When the juice brightens and the pulp rises, the seeds are washed with water and dried on plywood, glass or paper.

Seeds of biennial plants

So far, we have been talking about annual plants. It is somewhat more difficult to get seeds from biennial plants in the middle lane. They form seeds only in the second year. These are carrots, beets, parsley, celery, turnips, radishes, cabbage and others.

In the autumn of the first year, before the onset of frost, healthy vegetables are selected without any damage. The leaves are cut, the vegetables are cleaned of dirt. Initially, they can be stored outdoors under a small layer of earth (10 - 15 cm). As soon as cool weather comes (4 - 5 degrees), they are transferred to storage and sprinkled with sand. If stacked in stacks, then so. So that the heads are on the outside. The storage should have good air circulation, constant temperature - 0 - 1 degrees and relative humidity - 90%.

The next year, in early spring, vegetables are carefully examined; healthy ones with awakened apical buds are selected for planting. In the middle lane, 3 - 3.5 weeks before planting, they are added dropwise in semi-warm greenhouses or insulated beds, and in late April - early May they are transplanted into the ground, leaving the upper part at soil level.

Vegetables are planted at some distance from other varieties of the same crop. Weeds are removed from crops - quinoa, starfish, wild radish.

It is good to feed the plants left on the seeds with nitrogen fertilizers when they just begin to germinate, and at the time of flowering - with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers. Parsley and parsnips do not cut the leaves in summer.

In early October, they begin to collect ripe seeds - they ripen unevenly - 30 - 40 days. In carrots, parsley, parsnips, ripened seeds become brownish in umbrellas, radish pods acquire a light yellow color at this time, and seeds become light brown, 25-30% of browned glomeruli appear in beets. Ripe seeds are cut, dried under sheds or in a well-ventilated room, and then threshed.

In the southern regions of the country, the roots left for seeds are not dug up, they overwinter in the soil. The best healthy plants are selected from white, red, Savoy, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi for seeds. Store them at a temperature of 0 to 1 degree and a relative humidity of 90 - 95%. In the spring, 3-4 weeks before planting, stumps are cut out from the heads of cabbages, trying not to touch the apical bud. They are stacked in piles with roots inside and interbedded with moistened peat and humus.

After landing in open ground, the stumps are covered with wet straw, protecting them from frost and sunburn. From the buds on the stump develops the main stem up to 1.7 meters high with lateral flowering shoots. Pod fruits are harvested 40-50 days after the end of flowering, they are placed under a canopy, dried and threshed.

In the southern regions of the country, heads of cabbage are not cut in autumn, they hibernate, covered with a layer of earth. In the spring, they clean the top from the ground and cut off the remains of the leaves from it, freeing the apical bud.

You can also collect seeds from some perennial vegetables - sorrel, rhubarb, lemon balm, mint, lovage and others. These crops give seeds annually, starting from the second year of life. They are called perennial because they can grow in one place for up to five years or more.

Seeds are collected in a non-chernozem strip at the end of summer - early autumn, when the lower seed pods of inflorescences or tops of shoots turn brown. Leaves from plants left for this purpose are not cut in spring and summer. It is impossible to be late with cleaning, as the seeds crumble easily. Ripe stems are cut early in the morning, tied into bunches, left for 5-10 days for ripening and drying in a well-ventilated room, then threshed.

Vegetable seeds are best kept in a dry, ventilated area. They remain viable for the following periods: parsley, dill, carrots, lettuce, rhubarb, sorrel 0 to three to four years; cabbage (white, red, cauliflower), tomatoes, radishes, radishes, turnips, beets - up to five; peas, beans - up to six; kohlrabi - up to five - seven; zucchini, squash, cucumbers, pumpkin - up to six to eight. The best cucumber seeds are two to three years old, they produce more female flowers.

Gardeners who have been growing zucchini for more than a year probably have several especially beloved varieties. However, there is always a chance that next season it will be difficult to find their seeds for sale. It is possible that the germination of the seed material will also not be up to par, and the grown fruits will disappoint with a discrepancy with the expected characteristics.

To eliminate the possibility of such surprises, experienced summer residents prefer to use seeds obtained from their own crops. Moreover, even a novice vegetable grower can handle the harvesting and storage of planting material.

How to choose and grow seed fruits?

In itself, the cultivation of zucchini on a personal plot is a simple matter. However, if we are talking about growing seed plants, then beginner vegetable growers should know several features of the process.

• It is necessary to take into account the cross-pollination nature of the gourd family, which includes zucchini. The high probability of cross-pollination dictates the need for isolated planting of plants of one variety from their close relatives: other varieties of zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins or squash. The distance should be at least 100-150 meters. If it is impossible to comply with this condition, use artificial pollination.
• Choose only pure varieties for seed material. The use of seeds obtained from hybrid zucchini will lead to the most unpredictable consequences. Most often, the result of such plantings does not meet the expectations of the summer resident, demonstrating fruits with characteristics that are completely inappropriate for the variety.
• Plants planned for seed production require slightly different care than their conventional counterparts. Their fruits need a faster ripening process so that the seeds have time to form and ripen in the garden. To do this, seed bushes are watered and fed less than all other plantings. In addition, after the formation of the first 2–3 ovaries, it is recommended to pinch the central stem.
• To obtain seeds, the most even, large and healthy specimens are always selected, possessing all the necessary varietal characteristics (weight and shape of the fruit, skin color) in full.

Getting seeds: little tricks

To prepare really high-quality seeds, it is necessary to collect them from completely ripened fruits. The moment of collection can be determined by two main features.

• The bush with seed plants withered and turned yellow. This means that the active vegetation of the plant has ended and the leaves with stems have given the maximum nutrients to the fruits so that they can be stored until the next season.
• The peel of zucchini has become so dense that it does not even leave scratches from a fingernail or a sharp chip. In addition, its color becomes as intense as possible: black-green, orange or rich cream, depending on the varietal characteristics.

Any, even the most ripe specimens, require final ripening for 3-4 weeks in a dry, well-ventilated room.

Final processing of planting material

In order for the seeds to be stored better, they must be properly prepared. This is done in several stages.

• The ripened fruit is cut in half lengthwise and all the seeds are taken out, laid out to dry on a glass, plastic or ceramic surface. If you are drying the planting material on a metal tray or baking sheet, be sure to place thick paper or cardboard on it.
• Before laying out to dry, the seeds must not be washed, freed from partitions and fermented.
• It is best to dry the seeds outdoors, but protecting them from direct sun. If weather conditions do not allow this, spread the seeds at home and dry at room temperature.
• Do not forget to stir the crop periodically to ensure uniform drying and eliminate the possibility of mold.

How to properly store seeds?

You can harvest seeds of your favorite varieties annually, but it is recommended to store them for several years so that there is always a spare planting material in case of unforeseen situations such as over-pollination or crop failure due to bad weather.

• Only well-dried seeds should be stored for storage, since excess moisture will very quickly lead to mold and damage to planting material.
• Zucchini do not like too high temperatures in the room. Optimal storage conditions - from + 10 ° С to + 15 ° С.
• Good ventilation is very important for seeds, so breathable cardboard boxes, paper bags and envelopes, canvas bags are chosen as containers for them. Only very well dried seeds can be stored in airtight glass or ceramic containers.
• Do not forget to mark the culture, the name of the variety and the date of harvesting the planting material on the packaging.
• In a dry and cool room with good ventilation, zucchini seeds can be stored for up to 7 years without loss of germination. However, planting material at the age of two to three years has the best performance.

If you want to get the highest quality squash seeds possible, keep only large, healthy fruits of the desired variety for this purpose.

Experienced gardeners are advised to reduce the amount of dressing for zucchini for seeds. Do not forget that before you start cultivating a crop, the seed must be properly prepared.

How to Get Your Own Zucchini Seeds

Zucchini is a type of hard-skinned gourd. It was brought to Russia in the 19th century from Turkey and Greece.

Zucchini fruits acquire commercial properties 40-50 days after germination. Zucchini is an annual plant.

The best, typical fruits are left for seed purposes on the same plants from which the food ovaries were collected, but you need to pay attention to some features of cultivation.

Plantings of different varieties should be isolated, since the flowers of different varieties of zucchini are easily cross-pollinated with each other, as well as with flowers of hard-barked pumpkin and patisson varieties.

When harvesting your own zucchini seeds in a small area, it is better to grow one variety of this crop, do not grow squash and hard-skinned (ordinary) pumpkin.

The growing season for zucchini lasts approximately 100-115 days. After the ovaries are formed, at least 60 days must pass so that the zucchini can be left on the seeds.

To speed up the maturation of plants that are planned to be left to obtain zucchini seeds, you need to pinch the main stem at the budding stage of the plant.

This will allow you to get larger fruits for seeds. Halve the amount of dressing for those plants that are left to seed.

Leave 1-2 zucchini per plant to collect seeds for seedlings. For your own seed, choose healthy, beautiful vegetables that are typical of the variety in shape and color.

How to collect zucchini seeds for planting

For seed purposes, the most powerful plants are selected. All grown fruits are removed as they reach technical ripeness, but one or two are left until fully ripened.

Before harvesting zucchini seeds, the fruits must reach full biological ripeness. This is determined by the change in color and hardness of the bark. Mature fruits become yellow, white, cream or another color (depending on the variety), and their bark becomes hard, woody (does not press through even when pressed with a sharp object). Remove zucchini from dry plants to extract seeds. Only after that, the testicles are removed (along with the stalk) and ripened in a warm house. This may take 7 to 25 days. But you should not rush, the testis can be stored longer, until late autumn or even winter. Seeds collected from immature zucchini have low germination, so you should not rush to collect seeds.

The mature testis is cut lengthwise, the seeds are selected. Seeds should be thoroughly dried before storage, otherwise they will rot. Spread the seeds on a piece of paper and leave to dry completely. When the seeds are completely dry, carefully separate them from a sheet of paper and put them in linen bags for storage, indicating the year of collection on the bags. If you decide to store the seeds in paper bags, then pierce each bag with a needle in several places. This will improve air circulation.

Do not wash the seeds in a non-galvanized iron dish, as this will darken the seeds and impair their quality.

Zucchini keeps well, and many gardeners advise collecting seeds from zucchini in winter, when the vegetables have finally ripened in room storage conditions. The fruits, after isolating the seeds, are suitable for salads, soups and other dishes.

Processing zucchini seeds for preparation for sowing

Zucchini seeds before sowing are heated at a temperature of 50-60 ° C for several days, and the last few hours - at a temperature of 78 ° C. The temperature is increased gradually so as not to destroy the seed germ.

Warming up during the preparation of zucchini seeds for sowing contributes to the destruction of pathogens of viral diseases. Heated seeds are soaked in a solution of epin (2 drops per 1 liter of water) or a solution of trace elements for 12 hours.

Aloe has the ability to produce biologically active substances when the leaves are picked and placed in the refrigerator for several days. It is these substances that are most valuable in this plant. Therefore, if you want to disinfect your seeds in this way, keep the leaves at 2 ° C for a week, then squeeze the juice from the leaves, dilute it with water in a ratio of 1: 1, or use undiluted.

Garlic is also widely known for its antibacterial properties. Finely chop the cloves or simply squeeze the juice out of them, dilute with water in a ratio of 1: 3, place the seeds in the solution for 1 hour, rinse and dry until flowable.

For germination of zucchini seeds, they are soaked for 3-5 days before planting. As soon as they hatch, they are planted. For this, small holes are made, 2-3 seeds are placed in each to a depth of 2-3 cm. The hole is carefully covered with earth. In the event that all the seeds germinate, one sprout is left in each well, the rest are transplanted to another place.

There is a wide variety of seeds on sale, but they do not always please us with the percentage of germination and the quality of the resulting crop. It is more reliable to harvest zucchini seeds on your own and store them until next year.

How to collect zucchini seeds with your own hands?

First of all, you need to determine the seed and promote their proper development. Plants from which it is planned to collect seeds should grow for about 4 months. To do this, leave 3-5 bushes, on which, at the bud formation phase, you need to pinch the main stem. They need to halve the nitrogenous top dressing.

From the moment the ovary is formed, 2 months must pass for the seed fruits to fully form and reach the desired degree of maturity. You need to choose well-developed fruits that are most consistent in appearance with their variety. Use no more than 2 zucchini per bush.

When to harvest zucchini for seeds?

Collect seed fruits from dry plants. For greater certainty, you need to run a fingernail along its skin - if there is no trace of it, then the skin has hardened enough, and the fruit can be removed. The color of the zucchini should be orange or yellow.

After removal, zucchini is left to ripen for another 15-20 days in a dry room with good ventilation. Seeds from unripe fruits will give poor seedlings, so you should not rush to collect.

How to remove seeds from zucchini?

Cut the zucchini in half and carefully remove the seeds by hand. Usually from 1 fruit you can get from 20 to 40 seeds. It is not necessary to wash the seeds, immediately spread them on paper, glass or ceramics and dry them in the open air (in good weather), but without the sun.

Completely dried seeds are stored in cloth bags, glass jars or paper bags at a low temperature. With proper collection and storage, they can successfully lie for several years.

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How to plant zucchini in the ground?

Compared to cucumbers, zucchini is more frost-resistant and unpretentious. With an average daily temperature exceeding 15 degrees, they feel great already in the open ground, while the optimum temperature for them is considered to be about twenty degrees. When growing in a greenhouse, one should only take into account that when the heat comes above 28 degrees, zucchini, like cucumbers, cease to tie, so greenhouses and greenhouses must be ventilated, thereby reducing the temperature in them.

1. Although special soil preparation is not required before planting zucchini, you still need to take care of favorable conditions for their growth. Like all pumpkins, zucchini love warm, loose and fertile soil if possible, sufficient, but not excessive watering. They do not tolerate excessive acidity of the land allotted for planting. Ridges for zucchini are advised to be prepared since the fall, making plenty of humus and digging up the soil on a full bayonet of a shovel. Next, the ground is leveled, rubbish is selected, clods are broken and mineral fertilizers are applied if necessary.
2. Unlike their closest relatives, cucumbers, zucchini retain their properties fresh for a long time, therefore, having harvested in the middle of summer, you can enjoy a delicious stew of zucchini in the early spring of next year.
3. Under good conditions, about 18 fruits can be harvested from one zucchini plant. It is also necessary to ensure that the planting of zucchini is not too thick and compacted. You can cut off part of the foliage of zucchini so that the planting is better ventilated. Long ripening of zucchini fruits should not be allowed, or rather, the acquisition of giant zucchini. After all, each zucchini pulls the juices of the plant and harms the further formation of the ovaries, as well as the quality of future fruits.
4. Planting zucchini in the ground with seeds

Preparing zucchini seeds for planting in the ground

The first harvest of juicy fruits can be harvested within 35-45 days after planting young plants in the ground. Zucchini is used to prepare side dishes, vegetable stews, salads, various preparations for the winter from zucchini. For storage, the fruits are removed from the bush along with the stalk, wrapped in a plastic bag, small holes are made in it and stored on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator or basement.

Since the zucchini is a rather large plant, the distance between the rows should be at least 1-1.5 m, and between the holes - at least 1 m. 1 tbsp must be added to each hole before planting. organic fertilizer, such as "Effekton" and mix well with the ground. Then each well is watered with a solution of Agricola-5 fertilizer (1 tablespoon per bucket of water) - 1 liter each.

When to plant zucchini in the ground?

A solution of potassium permanganate and sow zucchini seeds to a depth of 2-3 cm

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When planting zucchini in open ground, the distance between the seeds should be approximately 5 cm. Many recommend throwing the seeds in pairs. If two come up at once, you can always transplant the second This representative of the pumpkin family appears on our table almost every day. Zucchini is perfectly harvested for the winter, it is put in the second and first courses, and even a beginner in gardening can grow a good plentiful harvest on his site.

In this case, you can go to the trick, engage in attracting insects that can help pollination. To do this, sugar syrup with a small addition of boric acid is sprayed onto the plants.

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With peat soils, it can be recommended for zucchini to make, per square meter, about a bucket of humus mixed with rotted cow manure, and the same amount of sod land. Of the mineral supplements, a spoonful of superphosphate, potassium sulfate and a handful of pure wood ash will not interfere. After planting the seeds, the hole can be watered with a warm solution of any growth activator, and then cover the soil with a film to save moisture and keep warm.

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But not only culinary specialists are inspired by early zucchini, summer residents also grow them with pleasure. Productive and unpretentious relatives of pumpkins and cucumbers are really famous for growing almost on their own, you just have to stick a seed and water it from time to time.

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You need to water the zucchini with settled and warm water. Then, you can avoid vegetable diseases and grow zucchini at home healthy and strong.

Growing zucchini: varieties, planting and care, seeds, harvesting

You can also sow zucchini in open ground. To do this, you need to soak the seeds in a solution of water for 12 hours. In this case, you need to add nitrophoska. Planting zucchini in open ground with seeds should be carried out from the middle or end of May until the time when the threat of spring frosts has passed. To grow zucchini, they must be covered. First you need to feed the soil and loosen it. And before sowing, it is recommended to once again thoroughly loosen the soil under the zucchini. To do this, you will need to add manure humus or compost to the soil, and after that, dig up the soil by adding sawdust. In addition, the soil can be fertilized with mineral fertilizers or wood ash.

Have a good harvest and an abundance of fresh vitamins on the table!

• Seedlings are planted early in the morning or in cloudy, warm weather, along with a clod of earth from a pot. Deepen to cotyledon leaves. If there is a threat of frost, then metal arcs are installed over the bed with zucchini and covered with a film. Or you can cover each plant with a plastic bottle. The next day after planting, it is necessary to loosen the soil around the seedlings.

The best varieties of zucchini

, flat so that the sprouted root "looks" down. Before the appearance of the first shoots, we maintain the ambient temperature within 18-25 ° C, and then reduce it to 15-20 ° C. Remember that seedlings need a lot of light, otherwise the plants will be weak and begin to stretch a lot.

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kawili zucchini Plant on another part of the garden. As a rule, this crop is well grown in the open field and does not require too much effort. The first step is to correctly select the landing site and prepare the soil. It all depends on the composition of the land on the site.

Mid-season

You can protect zucchini from diseases by planting onions and garlic in the neighborhood. Zucchini coexist perfectly with potatoes, any legumes and cabbage.

Varieties of zucchini

With loamy and clayey soils, several kilograms of peat, small dry sawdust are added per meter to create a looser structure and sifted humus. Mineral supplements are the same as in the first case, except for potassium sulfate.

Self-pollinated squash varieties

However, as practice shows, in order to get an early harvest and then enjoy healthy strong fruits for a long time, you should also take care of zucchini, know the features of their agricultural technology and some cultivation secrets.

Planting zucchini for seedlings

When to plant zucchini for seedlings?

Zucchini is much easier to grow than it looks, so growing squash in the ground should not be avoided - they easily tolerate acclimatization and the environment.

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How to plant zucchini with seeds in the ground?

Zucchini is one of the most common vegetables that is so loved in our country. But despite the fact that zucchini is easy to grow for any gardener, even the most inexperienced one, not everyone knows how to grow zucchini in their garden.

After 4-5 leaves appear in young plants, light hilling is carried out. Zucchini is watered exclusively under the root, with warm water at the rate of 5 liters of water per plant before flowering and 10 liters each during the fruiting period. To get a bountiful harvest, zucchini are fed every week with Mitlider's mixture No. 2 (6 kg of nitrophoska, 1 kg of urea, 1 kg of potassium sulfate, 1 kg of magnesium sulfate, 15 g of boric acid, 15 g of molybdic acid). Seedlings of zucchini, Caserta, Roller, Skvorushka, Helena and others.

There is another method on how to plant zucchini in the ground for a quick harvest - "under the bottle". The time when you need to plant zucchini in the ground in this way falls at the end of April, when the night temperature does not drop below 10 ° C. They are planted immediately in a permanent place, while the depth of the hole after planting should be about 10 cm. Then all crops will be protected from spring winds. After planting, carefully water everything and cover with plastic transparent bottles on top. The bottom of each bottle is cut off, and the cap itself is not unscrewed. As soon as the temperature reaches 20°C, the bottles can be removed.​

Features of growing zucchini (video)

fertilizers

For peat soils, the addition of compost, humus and the addition of loamy or clay soils is mandatory. For one square meter, a bucket of compost and a couple of buckets of loam are enough. We also add about a tablespoon of ash and a teaspoon of superphosphate. Once all the fertilizers have been applied, you can dig up the beds, level the surface and water with a warm solution of liquid fertilizer.

Zucchini is one of the fastest growing vegetable crops. From flowering to harvest takes only two weeks. Suitable for food, zucchini is considered when it reaches a fifteen-centimeter length, while the diameter of the fruit is about five centimeters. Such a fruit is easily cut with a knife, its peel has not yet formed and is easily pierced even with a fingernail. These are the most delicious fruits, characterized by a sweetish taste and containing a large amount of magnesium, potassium and other trace elements.

Garden preparation

With sandy soils on the site, it is necessary to enrich the composition of the soil with a bucket of soddy soil, humus mixed with manure, and be sure to apply mineral fertilizers in a standard set. As a rule, such lands are quite loose, which is good, but not very fertile. Therefore, do not neglect growth activators and dressings for vegetable plants.

Site selection

Before planting, you need to select those seeds that can give the strongest seedlings, and hence a friendly harvest. It is better to discard empty, ugly seeds in advance, and full-weight ones, in order to speed up germination, spread them out in a thin layer on wet gauze. After a few days, the seeds will swell and give the first rudiments of sprouts and roots.

The benefits of zucchini

Preparing the land for planting

The intended bed for zucchini must be prepared for sowing. To do this, you need to shed it with a solution of potassium permanganate, and then make furrows in it every 0.8 m. Throw 2 zucchini seeds into each furrow to a depth of about 6 cm.

From this article you will learn how to grow zucchini at home, as well as how to plant zucchini in open ground.

Features of planting zucchini

If this is not possible, then the first dressing is done before flowering. In 10 liters of water, dilute 40-50 g of superfolate, 20-30 g of potassium nitrate and 25 g of ammonium sulfate. Under each plant, 1 liter of solution is added.

Watering is carried out as needed to prevent the top layer of soil from drying out, with water at room temperature. The first feeding of plants is carried out 7-10 days after the appearance of sprouts. To do this, use: a solution of mullein (1:10) 50 mg per plant, a solution of urea (0.5 tsp per 1 liter of water) 0.5 cups per pot, a solution of the drug "Buton" (2 g per 1 liter of water ) 1 cup for 1-2 pots or a solution of any specialized growth stimulator.

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The preparation of clay soils is slightly different. Before planting zucchini, two or three kilograms of peat are brought into open ground, sawdust and humus are added. Then wood ash and superphosphates are also added.

Subject to agricultural technology and favorable conditions, one plant per season can produce up to two dozen fruits, which, during the period of intensive fruiting, have to be cut almost every other day. It is important to do this regularly so that the zucchini do not overripe and enable the plant not to experience unnecessary stress and tie all new greens.

With chernozem soils, the most fertile of those listed, you only need to take care of the looseness of the soil intended for planting zucchini. So, you need to add sawdust, sifted sand, ash and superphosphate.

Pest control

Germinated seeds, depending on weather conditions, can be planted either in the ground or in a greenhouse. If it is frosty outside, then the seeds are planted in peat pots for further cultivation in the form of seedlings. The ideal time for planting zucchini on the beds is the appearance of the third leaf on a young plant.

Zucchini has many beneficial properties for humans. They bear fruit profusely. It is best to plant zucchini in the ground in May or April. Zucchini is frost-resistant, so seedlings of zucchini will grow in open ground even in April.

To grow zucchini, you need to sow two seeds for the purpose of safety net. After all, most often only one seed will hatch. And in the event that both seeds hatch, it will be necessary to remove the weaker sprout or carefully transplant or cut it. But you can not pull out the sprout at the time the cotyledon leaves appear.

Harvesting zucchini

Seedlings of zucchini at home

The second feeding is carried out before fruiting. In 10 liters of water, dilute 40-50 g of superphosphate and potassium nitrate. The consumption rate per plant is 1.5 liters. For top dressing, you can also use a solution of mullein (1:10) or bird droppings (1:20) at the rate of 2 liters per plant in the first top dressing and 4 liters in the second.

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After another 10 days, a second top dressing is carried out with a solution of mullein with the addition of 20 g of superphosphate, 10 g of ammonium nitrate and 15 g of potassium sulfate per bucket of solution. Or, 1 tsp is diluted in 1 liter of water. nitrophoska. Spend 1 glass of solution per 1 plant.

The main varieties of this type of zucchini are Aeronaut varieties. Tsukesha, Zebra. These varieties can be attributed to early ripening varieties. Already on the 47th day after the emergence of seedlings of the Aeronaut variety, you can harvest. Zucchini fruits have an elongated cylindrical shape, the surface is dark green, smooth. The average weight of zucchini zucchini is 1.1-1.4 kilograms.

How to grow zucchini at home?

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The preparation of light loamy soil is similar to the second paragraph.

When ripe, the skin of the zucchini becomes dense, keratinized, it can no longer be pierced by nails, and the stalk lengthens and dries. The flesh of the fruit also changes. It loses a significant part of the moisture, acquires a taste similar to pumpkin, but less pronounced. Such fruits, when tapped, make a dull sound, and their color gradually changes from green to yellow.

After planting, zucchini can be fed if necessary. Experienced gardeners advise doing two top dressings, but they should be carried out before fruiting begins.

Planting zucchini in open ground

When planting seeds in open ground, they are embedded in the soil, watered abundantly, and then mulched with dry wiped soil.

Zucchini is unpretentious in care, resistant to various diseases. In addition, zucchini does not require certain conditions for growth.

Weaker seedlings can be transplanted into moist soil, to a depth of about 4 cm, by making a polyethylene shelter for seedlings.

In order to grow zucchini through seedlings, you need to sow zucchini seeds in seedling boxes from mid-April, and plant zucchini in open ground in a month. At the same time, the sprouts need to be covered with plastic wrap tied on arcs.

Bushes of zucchini

Plants are transplanted into the ground if they have 2-3 leaves and at the age of 25-30 days.

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Before planting zucchini seeds in sandy soil, you will have to add soddy soil, sawdust and humus with peat. Fertilizers and the way they are applied remain the same.​

If tender greens are stored only in the refrigerator, and then up to two weeks, then mature zucchini can be stored and eaten until next spring. They store fruits laid with dry straw in a ventilated basement, only occasionally turning over and checking for damage.

Zucchini sprout soon, literally a week after planting, and together. At first, the sprouts look like cucumbers, but when real leaves appear, it becomes clear that the plant is more powerful and larger.

When planting seedlings, the root system should be protected from any damage. Like all their relatives, zucchini react painfully to transplantation, so it is better to take care of this in advance and use medium-sized peat pots for planting or carefully roll over the sprout along with a clod of earth.

zucchini care

A crop such as zucchini has been grown by our gardeners for a long time and has already become traditional for our region. It is quite remarkable that zucchini, as a rule, gives high yields, however, in order to achieve such results, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with some features of planting and growing zucchini.

During the growing season of zucchini, they need to be fed several times with fertilizer during their development and flowering, and also use nitrophoska, superphosphate, potassium sulfate and urea.

The most popular among vegetable growers are used for breeding varieties Gribovsky-37, white-fruited vir, Nemchinovsky.

Proponents of organic farming can grow zucchini in compost beds, which are made from dry plant residues (potato tops work best) and semi-rotted last year's compost. No top dressing is required in this case.

We choose a sunny site for growing zucchini, protected from the wind. The best precursors for zucchini are greens and legumes, potatoes, early white and cauliflower, onions, and garlic. You can not plant a zucchini in the area where cucumbers, squash, pumpkin grew before. The zucchini is returned to its original place after 3-4 years.

Seeds can be planted from mid-March to mid-May. Planting seedlings in open ground is carried out 25-30 days after planting the seeds, this is on average the end of May - the beginning of June. But it all depends on the specific region of residence, here it is impossible to give universal exact dates for disembarkation.​

Zucchini in your garden Today you rarely see a summer cottage where zucchini is not grown. After all, this is such a tasty and healthy vegetable! In addition to the vitamins (A, C, B) and microelements (iron, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium) contained in it, it perfectly cleanses and strengthens the body, is used in children's, medical and dietary nutrition, and even in cosmetology. Another big plus of zucchini is the long shelf life of the fruit, during which it fully retains all its beneficial properties.

Next, you should properly prepare the planting material itself. In order for the seeds to come off together and the sprouts to be strong, be sure to lower the contents of the bag into a liquid solution of potassium or sodium humate, then cover with a damp cloth and leave for a couple of days. We periodically moisten the cloth with water so that the seeds do not dry out.

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Ripe varietal fruits are also used to obtain seeds at home for the next year.

But, like cucumbers, zucchini loves water. They need to be watered abundantly and often at all stages of growth, flowering and fruiting. With a lack of water, the leaves quickly wither, and the fruits begin to ripen hastily, losing juiciness and taste.

Do not plant zucchini too crowded. The bush culture forms a rather lush rosette of powerful leaves with a diameter of up to two meters, from this calculation they make holes for planting seeds or planting seedlings of zucchini.

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Planting zucchini

In order for zucchini to certainly grow healthy in the open field, you must first soak the zucchini seeds. In this case, you need to add nitrophoska to the solution.

To combat pests and diseases, zucchini is sprinkled with wood ash and treated with non-toxic preparations (Narcissus, Zircon, Amulet and others). And to attract pollinators during the flowering period, every morning the plants are sprayed with a weak solution of honey.

• Planting zucchini in the garden
• Zucchini is grown both through seedlings and by sowing seeds of bush zucchini in open ground. When growing seedlings, it is better to use a separate container for each plant (peat pots, paper cups, milk cartons, etc.) about 10x10 cm in size.​

One of the most common problems to this day remains the choice of planting material. Many gardeners cannot understand why, with all their efforts and diligence, the harvest is very poor. The fact is that often old seeds fall into the hands of inexperienced gardeners. Therefore, about a month before planting zucchini in the ground, be sure to check the selected planting material for germination: just soak a few seeds from different packages and hold for a couple of days in an important tissue.

Many gardeners at the end of the harvest season have a desire to leave the seeds they like for the next year. This can be done, but the result of such an operation will be only if varietal zucchini is used. Hybrids will not give the desired effect, their seeds must be purchased every year in the store.

Soil preparation for zucchini

Watering zucchini is advised under the root, making sure that the soil above the root system does not erode, and moisture does not get on the leaves. The best time to water is early morning before daylight or in the evening just after sunset. This requirement is especially important to observe on warm sunny days in order to avoid burns on plants.​

• You need to choose a place on the site with the approach that it will be uncomfortable for these vegetables to grow after any of their relatives: pumpkins, cucumbers, squash and melons. It will be possible to return zucchini to this place only after a couple or even three years.
• Elastic, juicy zucchini, one of the first vegetables to appear on the tables in summer, is loved by many gardeners and consumers. And although zucchini will never overtake in popularity, for example, potatoes or tomatoes, and they do not take up so much space in the beds, they will compete with many other gifts of the garden kingdom in terms of versatility and taste.
• Planting zucchini in open ground is done in the spring, when the earth is already saturated with a large amount of vitamins and minerals, but a large number of pests and weeds have not yet appeared. For planting zucchini, the land is prepared in advance. Preparation, as always, consists of simple processes such as digging the earth, cleaning it from pests and grass, as well as fertilizing the land with mineral and organic fertilizers. It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that many experienced gardeners recommend saving time, and while you are working on the ground, prepare the seeds by putting them in a manganese solution.
• The main planting unit of zucchini is seeds. Currently, in specialized stores you can buy zucchini seeds for every taste, or you can collect seeds from last year's zucchini yourself. It is only worth noting that the best option is to purchase seeds, since they are treated for pests, which is almost impossible to produce at home.

In order to harvest a good harvest, it is also important to break off large leaves in a timely manner and remove ripened fruits. If this is not done, then the formation of new ovaries slows down.

zucchini care

In autumn, after harvesting the predecessor, the soil is harrowed with a rake, and after two weeks it is dug up. For digging, rotted manure or compost is brought in - a bucket per 1 sq.m., 30-35 g of superphosphate and 15-20 g of potash fertilizers per 1 sq.m.

Before sowing, zucchini seeds are prepared in the same way as when growing other vegetable crops and sown in April - early May. The soil mixture for seedlings is prepared from peat, humus, sod land and sawdust in a ratio of 6:2:2:1. for enrichment with microelements, you can add 0.5 cups of ash, 5-6 g of ammonium nitrate or 7-8 g of urea, 10 g of potassium sulfate, 15-20 g of superphosphate to a bucket of the mixture. Or you can use a ready-made soil mixture, such as Exo, from a specialized store.

Harvesting zucchini

The third stage of planting zucchini in open ground is the choice of time. To obtain the earliest harvest, the seedling method is always used. Greenhouses, balconies are suitable for growing seedlings, and work should begin no later than April.

Today, the choice of seeds is very wide, but you should not pay too much attention to beautiful bright pictures, but it is better to read who brought out this or that variety or hybrid. For the northern regions, domestic varieties will be preferred, and in the southern regions, imported ones will also be productive, which bear fruit much longer and differ from our varieties in nutritional qualities.​

Just as zucchini do not like dry soil, they do not tolerate the proximity of groundwater and stagnant moisture. The roots of plants quickly rot, zucchini begin to hurt and eventually die.

But, as it turned out, zucchini feel great in the middle of a flower garden or near an artificial pond. A lush plant does not lose its appearance for a long time and looks quite decorative even next to flowering plants, shading from bright greenery.

Fried with garlic and herbs, baked with minced meat, tomatoes and cheese, marinated and stewed, turned into the most delicate baby puree and even jam - these are all zucchini. Zucchini has long been famous as a low-calorie product, recommended, due to the high content of minerals in vegetables, for dietary and baby food.​

Harvesting and storage

After preparing both components, the seeds are planted in the ground to a depth of no more than 2-3 cm. When planting zucchini in open ground, the distance between the holes should be more than 50-60 cm, in order to allow easy growth of shoots.

To grow zucchini at home, special attention must be paid to the choice of seeds. It is very important that the seeds are treated for pests, resistant to high temperatures and high humidity. In this context, it should be noted that seed treatment should take place without the use of chemical elements, since this will affect the final result, and it is not worth eating foods with chemical fertilizers. Seeds should be large, regular in shape and not stick together. If these points are not followed, then this indicates the poor quality of these seeds.​

Ripe zucchini ready for harvest

In early spring, the soil is loosened with a rake, and before planting the seedlings, they dig it up and add 15-20 g of ammonium nitrate per 1 sq.m. On sandy soils, in addition (per 1 sq.m.), it is necessary to add 1-2 buckets of crushed dry clay and 3 kg of sawdust. If the soils are heavy, clayey, then per 1 sq.m. add a bucket of river sand and 2-3 kg of peat, sawdust, humus. To peat soils per 1 sq.m. add a bucket of soddy soil and 2 kg of compost or manure humus.

Filled pots are spilled with hot water or 0.5%

Variety selection for the site

In order to consume fresh vegetables directly from the garden from mid-summer to late autumn, breeders have bred new high-yielding varieties of zucchini and hybrids of different ripening periods. These varieties are perfect for use in central Russia and Siberia: zucchini can be grown both in the Moscow region and in the Urals - the climate is great for this.

If you don’t have a goal to get an early harvest, the time when you can plant zucchini in the ground falls in early May - mid-June. First, beds are prepared with a width of about 60 cm: they dig it onto a shovel bayonet. Further, at a distance of about a meter, holes are made and organic fertilizers are applied there. Everything is thoroughly mixed with the soil and watered with a warm solution of Agricola 5 fertilizer. Next, the seeds are planted. It is better to work either early in the morning or on a cloudy day.​

However, imported zucchini are mostly hybrids. Propagating them at home will not work, and it is not necessary. Domestic zucchini today compares favorably with both a more pleasant taste and a high content of useful substances in fruits. Russian varieties are perfectly stored and, unlike Western ones, are suitable for a popular type of fruit processing, conservation.​

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Under the lush foliage of overgrown zucchini, weeds, as a rule, do not get along, but while the bush is growing, it is very important to remove all weeds from under it and make the necessary feeding.

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