Growing zucchini has a reputation for being easy and, honestly, that’s pretty fair. Cucurbita pepo germinates fast, takes off quickly, and one plant can produce more fruit than most households know ...

The plant looks like it's doing everything right. Big yellow flowers cover it, new ones opening every morning, the whole thing sprawling and green. Then the little fruits behind some of those flowers ...

A young zucchini fruit that shrivels, yellows, or stops growing often points to incomplete pollination, inconsistent moisture, pests, or plant stress, so checking the flowers, soil, stems, and leaves ...

Someone told me to plant zucchini early to avoid problems with squash bugs. Is this true? When should zucchini seeds be planted? Whoever told you that had completely wrong information! Planting ...

A few summers ago, I joked about growing a $200 zucchini in a column. We were living in Snowmass at the time, and we built a vegetable garden next to our condo. It was toilsome and expensive to cre ...

Companion planting is a great way to get more out of your garden, but choosing the right companion plant pairings requires an understanding of the complex ways plants affect each other when grown in ...