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Hi, I'm Stan DeFreitas, "Mr. Green Thumb". Zucchini, an excellent vegetable and one that's
pretty easy to grow. I'd make sure that it gets about 6 hours of bright sun a day, don't
put it in a shady spot, make sure it gets a good deal of moisture, and improve the soil.
Add extra peat moss, extra cow manure to the planting soil. How much? Well I'd probably
add at least, oh, up to about 50 percent organic matter to your planting vegetable soil, especially
for the zucchinis. Now they do get some problems with mildew on occasion, so you may have to
find a good fungicide that labels itself for that. I've used over the years something like
dithane 45, but there's other good general fungicides that label themselves for mildew
as well. Make sure you keep the moisture off the foliage as much as you can. But also by
having it in a bright sunny spot, it should dry off early in the morning. Make sure you've
got it in a spot where you can get a hose to it, where they do require a good deal of
moisture even though you want that soil to be pretty well drained as well. Zucchini makes
an excellent vegetable, and excellent landscape plant in your backyard garden. For on Gardening,
I'm Stan DeFreitas, "Mr. Green Thumb".