How to grow and harvest zucchini?

We planted some zucchini in our garden  in the spring when we were planting our other vegetables for our summer garden. They produced very well. They can also be planted in containers, but I have not tried that method yet. There are many different. Jemmer bears yellow fruit. Defender is one that crops very heavy and it is resistant to the cucumber mosaic virus. Parador has yellow fruits and they stay yellow even when you are cooking them.

Zucchini seeds I plant out in our garden in the summer is zucchini. I will put them in a sunny, sheltered area of our garden. I will add organic matter to my soil before I sow any seeds.

Zucchini are real quick to grow and to fruit, and  they need to be kept well-watered through all the summer and I water our zucchini plants, while I am watering my other garden plants.

I weed out my zucchini plants while I am hoeing out the rest of the garden. I also will keep pellets out in my zucchini plants, to try to deter slugs and snails.

I check my zucchini plants daily and if there are zucchinis ready to harvest, I will do that while I am out in the garden. I use a sharp knife to harvest the zucchinis. The long variety I plant needs to be harvest when they are 306 inches long. I also like to take two or three zucchini plants and keep the fruits on these plants and let them develop fully. The plants that I do this will produce a smaller crop of thick-skinned squashes that I will harvest in late summer.