OK so aren't zucchini supposed to feed the entire neighborhood with just one plant? I've grown them every year without problem. My zucchini plant this year however, is not producing. The zucchini's grow to 4 inches with blooms and then die. They've been producing this way for a month now. I've tired to pollinate them without success. What can I do? I've never had this happen before. Any suggestions?
It's the weather. They usually take nothing to grow but this year I had to add them to my drip system. They got too much water in the beginning so they didn't send deep roots so now they are needing water.
They are just now starting to produce.
We are hearing that from everybody this year...green beans aren't producing, tomatoes looks awful, no corn around, and even the peas aren't coming in. Weather!
Water, water, water! This year everywhere has had weird weather. Lots of rain early and hardly any later. The plants are just confused. I have been hitting mine in the morning and at night.
Good luck!
Go to your local gardening expert store... in Idaho it is Zamzows... and get a product that is supposed to keep the bloom... it is something like stay on. Also, our weather these last 2 years has been so bad that our garden's aren't producing like they used to and every 7 years you are supposed to rotate where you plant the plants due to the plant pulling their "food" out of the ground and depleting it. Hope you can find that product, and good luck.
It's the weather. I'm in California and things just aren't growing as usual. I live in the northern most part of the state and we've had a real cruddy summer. It's been damp, cold and wet with not much sun to make up for it.
Tomatoes aren't doing well either.
Wow! I was just out in the yard looking at mine and noticed the samething! I don't know what it is either, my tomatoe's aren't producing as much either! I have been using the Miracle Grow plant food too!? It has to be this crazy weather we are having!
In addition to the good suggestions about water below, you might try fertilizing with compost and composted manure. Since it is too late to amend your soil now that it is planted, you might consider side-dressing your existing plants. After you take them out in the fall and before you plant next spring, work these into your soil. Additionally, www.solutionsfromscience.com has a great product called Protogrow. It is fermented kelp and fish and is much better for your soil, plants, and you than MiracleGrow. This is what I have been doing and my plants are huge and producing like there is no tomorrow. I had to do a squash run yesterday to deliver extra squash to people who wanted some and were having similar problems as you are.
