this thread is dedicated to providing advice and tips for newbies who wish to learn how zucchinis.
Please do not post unless the content of post is related to growing zucchini.

Now for few tips.
1. between 4-8 inches long zucchini fruits are called courgettes.
2. zucchini fruit longer 14 inches are usually very tough and are only useful for zucchini bread or stuffing.
3 zucchini fruit can go from flower to 14 inches in 10 days.
4. squash bugs and squash vine bores are most damaging pest for zucchini.Appropriate, early and persistent action either by wrapping the stem or strong organic sprays are need to prevent damage.

please fell free to contribute beneficial advice for growing zucchini.

Squash is very prolific, plant one unless you have a huge family, or lots of neighbors!

Sorry, but "Courgette" is simply a European term for zucchini squash - of ANY size, whether 3" or 20". "Marrow" is another European term that's sometimes used to describe zucchini, but it's more frequently used in relation to the lighter-colored Middle Eastern summer squashes that resemble the true zucchinis in appearance.

In addition, Squash Bugs are NOT the most damaging pest for zucchini. Frankly, whatever pest/disease you in particular have on your zucchini can easily be the most damaging - whether that be Squash Bugs, Borers, Powdery Mildew, or any other malady.

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BreezyGardener

you are incorrect longer then 8 inch they are called marrows by British . Though zucchini are not marrows this is very common belief among the British who have been known to call all small squash courgette and all big zucchini and other large squash marrows.
my local market in the USA calls them under 8 inches courgettes and have seen many other markets labeling the same way. these are both farmers and supermarkets.

Hey - whatever you want to believe is up to you.

My friends in the UK call them - of ANY size - Courgettes. Same goes for every single UK-published cookbook I own (& that's a LOT of cookbooks).

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Sorry, but "Courgette" is simply a European term for zucchini squash - of ANY size, whether 3" or 20". "Marrow" is another European term that's sometimes used to describe zucchini, but it's more frequently used in relation to the lighter-colored Middle Eastern summer squashes that resemble the true zucchinis in appearance.

In addition, Squash Bugs are NOT the most damaging pest for zucchini. Frankly, whatever pest/disease you in particular have on your zucchini can easily be the most damaging - whether that be Squash Bugs, Borers, Powdery Mildew, or any other malady.

He's just once again using the board to write his book!

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Originally posted by Mrs. K-og:
Squash is very prolific, plant one unless you have a huge family, or lots of neighbors!

Indicators that you have planted too much zucchini:

Your neighbor finds them every morning in his mailbox.

You are eating it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, snacks too.

You have a flute made out of a Zucchini.

Even the field mice stop eating it.

You till under the Zucchini plants, but still have more today than you had yesterday.

Nightmares about a giant Zucchini wakes you in the night.

Your kids are using it for building blocks.

You spray your zucchini plants with sugar water to attract insects. But, they won't bite.

grid's gonna love this one:

Did you ever play baseball, using a zucchini as the bat? The first and only time that I grew this stuff, I had no idea how quickly they grew. One day I had tiny little fruits...next time I looked, I had baseball bats.

I was just wandering through the archives, and came across this from Daisy Dew (where she go, where she go?) regarding a post from Grid:

"Rule #12: Organize your pertinent data in a way so as to effectively and accurately ask your question as quickly and articulately as possible, because The-Great-Grid-Ga-zoo is giving entirely new meaning to split personality disorder. "
Literally.

flatiron,

You obviously did not read the "rules" for this thread. The subject is zucchini. I don't see that word in your post.

You really are bored, aren't you?

Binny

You crack me up (zucchini). Don't do that at this hour (zucchini). I'm trying to cook (not zucchini).

It's so hard to remember Grid's (zuchini) rules.

For those of us who prefer to grow yellow crookneck or yellow straightneck squash, they are grown about the same way as (zucchini) except that some are bushing varieties (unlike zucchini), so they need to be planted individually and farther apart. Yet they are so close to (zucchini) in growth and use that I hope it is not a crime to discuss them together.

Do zucchini need extra fertilizer?

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Originally posted by Liz1:
For those of us who prefer to grow yellow crookneck or yellow straightneck squash, they are grown about the same way as (zucchini) except that some are bushing varieties (unlike zucchini), so they need to be planted individually and farther apart. Yet they are so close to (zucchini) in growth and use that I hope it is not a crime to discuss them together.

Not all zucchini varieties are vining. Just like with other squash, there are bush types.