/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>367554
>Zucchini

Two Zucchini plants will give you more than you will want to eat.

With a lot of varieties it takes a little bit longer before they start making male flowers, while they already have female flowers. If you plant one plant about a month sooner the male flowers of the first one will pollinate the early female flowers of the second one. It also spreads out your harvesting a bit more. Also don't let too many zucchini's develop at the same time if you have a productive plant. It will exhaust itself and succumb to things like mildew much easier. A slow but steady production of fruits gives you more in the long run, in my experience.

I myself always plant one or two, depending on the productivity of the strain. Never was there I year I didn't end up giving away surplus.

Lastly, don't let the zucchinis get to big unless you're going to use them for soup or sauce. At a certain point the plant stops 'growing' the fruit and will just pump more water into it. The volume will keep increasing but the flavor will deteriorate.