Vegetables · Warm
Zucchini
Cucurbitaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 80 cm
- USDA zones
- 4a–11b
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 12 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- raised-bed mixAlso okay:loamy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Either works
Direct sow works; pre-culture gains 4–6 weeks head start.
Stachi's tip
A single zucchini plant feeds a family. Harvest the fruits YOUNG (15-20 cm) and regularly — miss one giant zucchini and you're suddenly distributing them to all the neighbours.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
These plants improve the soil / free the slot early:
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage