How to grow SQUASH from Seed to Harvest - A Complete Guide || Black Gumbo
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Growing squash is actually fairly simple. You can get a gigantic harvest of wonderful squash in just under three months. I'll show you how to begin your plants from seed and how to grow them up into bountiful garden producers. I will cover everything from soil requirements, seed sowing methods, plant care, fertilization, harvesting, and common pests. I hope that the frustration caused by the squash vine borer moth doesn't stop you from getting your plants off on a good footing early in the season, you will see that you can still get a harvest even when you are experiencing a heavy pest pressure.
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Never had boars or cuc beetles last year. I believe it's because I overplanted my marigolds. And when I say overplanted, I mean they were fighting each other for space. Gonna try that again this year.
I wrap the stem with aluminum foil and that keeps the squash bore from drilling into the stem.
The other day, you said something about how we have to think ahead a whole season when planting from seed that when I looked back at my planting notes finally made something click in my head! Thank you for your consistently great advice. I'm going back to find and review that tidbit!
Ooh, look at you with your fancy Hole Maker 5,000! There's me with my teaspoon! I will be doing a modified 'Pumpkin Pit' in a container, I think I'm onto a winner this year!
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I keep DE sprinkled on the bottom of my squash. Also, putting worm castings on the surface around each plant helps deter vine borers and squash bugs.
I usually end up growing too much summer squash and eventually run out of neighbors to give it to.
I'd slice it up, put it on trays in the freezer and then put them in baggies.
You can pickle it, if you know how to can your own food. It is really good pickled.
I really enjoy videos like this that show the beginning to end. Showing how to care and pest pressures, fertilizer needs, harvest etc. Please do more of these!
I’m going to vertically grow my squash this year , pruning as I go. Steve zone 6 b
Thank you for doing this video! I am a beginner and i planted squash for the first time last year and maybe got only 2 or 3 fruit on each plant. A lot of it just rotted and fell off and call me crazy but i had no idea that there was a male and female flower. Your video was very informative and helped me tremendously!
"Ooh, what's growing here?"
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"Yup, that'll grow."
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Jon in rural BC, Canada
Hi neighbour! I'm in Alberta. Squash grows so well in the West. I grew it last year and doing it again this year
Thank you. When my Squash came up last season I didn't know that the 'little bumps' were NORMAL, so I thought I did something wrong. I had never grown (or even eaten) Squash before, now I know what they look like...
I hope you can do more seed to harvest videos. Thanks!
I'll have one on tomatoes for sure.
@@ScottHead
Any leads on seeds for 'sport peppers' (think Chicago hot dogs)?
I love the juice off them when pickled. Just the right _mild_ heat for using in spinach (any greens) and black eyed peas. I really want to grow these but can't find seeds or plants! 😕
Any suggestions much appreciated!!
@@ScottHead
I just planted squash yesterday. I'm a new gardener....at least to veggies.
Grew up a seasonal _snap & shuck hand,_ lol. My maternal family were all farmers/ranchers who grew their own food. We made rounds at harvest. Us kids prepared corn, peas, beans, okra, etc for the ladies in the kitchen...our reward, fresh hand-cranked ice cream.
The elders are all gone now...it's my turn. And I've never been on this end of food production before.
I'm a new subscriber reporting for school, sir!
@@sv3931 try Sandia Seeds ,they can be found online.
@@ScottHead Scott, when you plant your squash, zucchini, & cucumber….mix a little bug dust into the hole that you plant each plant in. That’ll take care of the vine bore problem. We call them root maggot in my neck of the woods.
It's the middle of May. It shouldn't be dropping into the 30's at night by now.
I've seriously had enough of all the global warming!
Your squash look fabulous. In 8a, I’m just getting blooms opening. My plants look yellow so I’m going to follow your advice and give them some good all purpose since they just started blooming. Thanks!
Love your Hole maker 5000, too funny.
Great class today, thank you!
I’ve been hand pollinating my pie pumpkins. I think I’m going to have a ton. I can’t wait to make pumpkin pies with them.
Hello Scott. Thanks for the knowledge you have about growing squash/pumpkins. Be well.
Great video Scott. Many Blessings!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Great video! Loved seeing the squash growing life cycle and pest pressure. Very informative!!! 👍❤️
Right on time! Thank you 🌱🌱🌱 Now to figure out how to beat the SVB 😏 ugh! I really dislike that moth.
Thank you for showing seed to harvest. I learned a few things I needed to know.
Very good info! Thanks. Nice harvest, as well. ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️
Thank you for the video! I hope my squash do as well as yours this year! They are just now starting to flower, so, we will see!
Another good video. Love watching yours as you use what you basically have on hand. Keep em coming. Charlene
"Hole maker 5000" ... that was awesome. :) Great vid, great harvest. I know you've stated your case regarding squash pants and the vine borer. They're bad in my area, too ... the entire growing season. I'd like to try an experiment using peppermint and/or rosemary oils as scent maskers. Couldn't hurt, might help.
Very helpful...will be looking for the pesky vine borers . Thanks, Scott .
This video really helped me understand what was happening to my squash! Thanks!!
I live in the midwest and I could not dream.of putting them in any sooner than when I did easter weekend. You're squash look beautiful I wish I had more luck with my zucchini and spaghetti squash
Thank you I have been trying to plant that this year and I hope I have a good luck like you are.
thank you! I just put some seeds in the ground so I will be looking at your tips as time goes on! Appreciate it!
Just bought some seeds today, I got squash and look forward to some soon.
Thanks so much for sharing all your knowledge with us! I harvested one squash yesterday…I hope it’s the first of many 😁
Great video!!
You definitely have great skills my friend. Nothing beats eating natural and healthy 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Very useful! 😀
Excellent video sir, appreciate it
nice lookin garden ya got there.
Nice!
as far as my knowledge goes, u have to prune the outer leaves for better access to the pollination process, fruit harvesting and bug control...
Thx man this was helpful
Glad it helped
Thanks for the explanations and for showing the vine borer. I wonder if I've seen them and didn't know what they were. I've wiped something away, but it's so microscopic that I didn't know what it was.
Great video! I'm in the Houston area as well and planted my first zucchini. I've been battling vine borers too. Scotch tape is my favorite way of removing eggs so far. We've also tried a BT spray, we'll see how it goes. Do vine borers attack butternut squash and pumpkins too? Thanks for sharing!
Yes, they attack all squashes and pumpkins. See my pumpkin pit videos for varieties that can sometimes live through the vine borers.
@@ScottHead I'll do that. Thank you!
I picked up a straight neck starting to bloom. I've potted it up and plan on growing it up on the fence. What do you think?
Hole maker 5000 😂😂😂
I got the seeds from a small pot. I have a bad background, but hopefully I can make my squash grow. Going to start growing this summer and going to be a lot of mistakes on the way
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My squash this year is already bigger than any plants ive had in the past. I mixed wood ash into my soil before i planted. It seems to have done the trick.
Other than DE, any other organic recommendations against bore moths and similar pests? Neem oil help at all?
Wellll shoot! I didn’t know how big they got lol I have smaller raised beds that I’m not sure will fit all that 😂 I have 4 of them in the beginning phase of growth
I have grown squash plants in seven gallon fabric pots the last three years....huge plants, dozens of male flowers, not one single female. No idea why. They are from varied seed sources and different varieties.
Lol "Hole Maker 5,000"
Crones Cradle Conservative in Citra, FL was growing zucchini under row covers in raised beds during the winter when I was there once.
I don't know if it was an experiment or how it worked out.
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Just a thought on plants with disease or pests like the one in your video. Maybe instead of throwing it away, you could burn it then use the ash in your compost.
I want a potting table like that! Where did you get it and what is the surface? Great video!!
Its a recycled piece of plastic or or composite sheet that used to be the wall of my dad's above ground swimming pool. I salvaged about a dozen of these 4x4' panels when he moved and had to take down the pool. They have been great around the house for various tasks. One is the door to my active compost pile.
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Seed starting mix is safer b/c it doesn't have bacteria which can latch on st seed stems which can damage and rot your seedlings. Most have been sterilized to a point.
Huge pumpkins come from constant soaking.
Vine powers can be discouraged by using a sugar sprinkler loaded with diatomaceous earth powder DAILY from you local pool supply.
Every year I hope to have too many squash or zucchini, but never do, and none of my neighbors leave us gifts of them lol
Another robust lesson Scoot.
My plants are scrawny. I put a piece of raw fish in a container with my onions and other squash plants and they are much bigger!
Did u know the leaves are very nutritiousious.. like a one a day vitamins
Great information! Thank you for sharing it! Is there a way to treat the soil to get rid of the vine borer larvae before next year?
I am not aware of one.
If you add nasturtium an plNt radishes next to the
vine it might help during the growing season.
Radishes are supposed to repell a wide range of bad bugs.
Tea tree and neem oil. 1ml each to 1000ml water and water where your squash were.
Can you cover the beds with like a tool fabric to keep the flying pests off?
Yes. That works.
@@ScottHead Thank you for the speedy reply. I have never grown a large garden, but will be giving it my best shot next spring. I am now just taking notes and trying to learn.
Hi Scott! Do you add mulch over your top layer of compost? If so, what do you use?
Yes, I use grass clippings and oak leaf mixture.
@@ScottHead thank you!
Neglected to mention that
volunteer plants could very well be hybrids from anything like cucumbers to pumpkins, no?
Yes, no telling what I have.
Someone said you could plant yellow squash in November & December
in the San Francisco Bay Area climate.
Would you say that's a good idea?
Thanks for the video. Could you eliminate pests by putting diatomaceous earth around the plants? And, could you kill viruses and bacteria by boiling the harvested squash? Thanks again. PS I like your Welsh Corgi.
Diatomaceous earth is useful for some pests but I've never found it helpful to be honest. Yes, boiling/cooking kills bacteria and virii.
@@ScottHead Thanks for letting me know.
I never know at what size to pick my squash. Any thoughts?
Nice video.
Question 🙋🏽.
Can you still eat the squash if it’s larger and bumpy?
Sure, you will have larger seeds but you can certainly eat it.
What a great harvest. What do you do to preserve them for eating? Can squash be dehydrated?
Well this batch is getting shared with my church family tomorrow. I think you can dehydrate. I made a nice succotash the other day. I don't preserve squash as it gets eaten too quickly. :-)
Blanch and freeze them there are recipes in old farm journal cookbooks my mom used years ago.
I. cook. up. with onions. and sometimes green chile. Save. A portion of Just. squash. ;and onions to freeze. think I t. could be dehydrated then. No. chile. or cheese
@@s.leemccauley7302 thank you 😊
@@ScottHead Awesome thanks! ☺️
I live in southeast Louisiana. It have similar climate to you. What variety of zucchini do you plant. This is my first year gardening and just noticed my first SVB.
No set variety. Last year I planted a stripey variety, Napolatina or something similar.
So I’m guessing there is really no organic control for the squash vine borers since that's not mentioned. Would some type of garden fabric help at all?
BT (Thuricide) can be used but you have to re-apply frequently and some folks inject it into the stalks with a hypodermic needle. I don't have time for that, just get my harvests and be done. :-)
When do you start counting to get the days to harvest? When the seed is planted, or when the seed breaks thru the soil or if transplanted at time of transplanting. Thanks and Be Well
Start the count from the time transplants go in, or if starting seeds, about the time they get a couple of sets of true leaves.
high bed or low bed
which is better
Questions... Ok I started growing squash... I have beautiful seedlings , this may be dumb but do i plant each seedling separately???
Yes, give each individual squash plant plenty of room, they get huge
Vine borer isn't a problem in Chicago. It's that powdery mildew! Any tips?
None of the traditional remedies have worked well for me, neem oil, milk, hydrogen peroxide... all failed me.
I'm just using 7 dust this year
I use spinosad right down on the stems. Seems to work.
I am trying to get my seeds(all kinds) started in damp paper towel in plastics bags on top of heat mat under towel. Ok almost 3 weeks later and NOTHING. What's going on?
Too hard to know without seeing it and knowing the temp. Maybe too much moisture, and depending on the seeds, some need light to get going.
Any idea how long between pollination and ready to harvest on those yellow squash? I can’t go by size because I hand pollinated one yesterday that the fruit was almost 6” long when the flower bloomed. 😳
Seems they are ready in a week.
@@ScottHead thank you!
Curios why you don’t use BT. I’ve heard it’s ‘organic’ish?
I do use BT, its awesome. Might not have doen so back when this video was made.
Are the same instructions for squash the same for zucchini ?
Yes.
Where do you get your seed trays?
Recycled trays from the store when I buy flowers and starts, or I use Proptek trays from Hoss Tools, or even Jiffy trays.
Can you start the seeding inside ?
I prefer not to as squash roots are very sensitive to being disturbed. You can try but be very careful planting the seedlings out.
I planted my butternut honeybutter little ones from Baker Creek also scalloped squash also zucchini hoping to get a harvest before the heat and bugs .
God bless you Josette Tharp Texas
I am a beginner. I planted my squash on Saturday from plants I pick up at Walmart and they were dead by Wednesday. I can never grown anything. Why can't I just plant in the ground water it let it grow. I am thinking the garneering thing was a bad idea
Man, when I was 6 I took a pumpkin and stuck it in the ground and it grew just fine you don’t have to do all those steps those are just extra steps to increase your chance but what I do it just plant straight into the ground water and leave a bowl over the ground where the seeds are. Go to Lowe’s or wherever you can buy what you wana grow and start again it’s trail and error now I’m 14 and have been relatively successful planting pumpkins in the sand and adding good quality soil on the vine of the pumpkin
Great video!!