Common Problems of Zucchini and Squash Plants in Urban Patio / Container Garden

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Learn about common problems for Zucchini and Squash plants and how to deal with them! This information is especially helpful to patio gardeners since many of these problems can become quickly prevalent and overtake your garden when growing in tight spaces or containers where nutrients can leach out! Please post questions / comments below, I'd love to hear from you. Like and subscribe for more helpful tips to urban patio and container gardeners!

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How much sun do they need? and how big the pot has to be ?

hi great video. just wanted to say for the mildew on the leaves you can also use bicarbonate of soda 5gr per 600mls of water spray and wipe .

We don't have zucchini seed in malaysia, cannot found any seed in the marts

where can we buy Neem' oil?

Thanks for a great video! I do have a question. I'm a first-time gardener, and my zucchini squash are in a large, clay pot. They do not look as bright a green as your leaves do, and the squash fruit forming is completely white. The stems are also a very pale green. The leaves look "white", but it isn't powdery mildew (it doesn't look that way). They are growing out and forming new leaves, but all the older leaves on the vines eventually fall off (I don't know if this is normal, but they don't look like your plants). I water about every other day, and I fertilize about once every two weeks (generally with miracle grow concentrate, but every once in a while with egg shells). I spray with Neem oil about once a week as well. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

nice video cheers

I planted zucchini for the first time and there was only 1 good one from the patch , most of my zucchini were thick on the bottom but the tips were dried yellow and brown color not green? Is this due to over watering or pollenating

My plants grows fine for a while (except that cold weather prevents fruit formation), then they suddenly go moldy (mildew) and die. Perhaps it is the calcium thing, I'll look at my fertiliser composition. Thanks!

very nice but after a smal time it is just good to say that you need to remove the flower so that no rot apears

Added note, one must watch how many plants are in a container. The plants quickly become "root-bound". This means that far too many plants have been placed in said container or pot and start forming a complex root system. In essence, it looks like a quilt on the bottom (inside the container). Too many seedlings in one container will indefinitely produce this jungle. A couple seeds per pot/container suffices.

I see a lot people commenting on climate- like Canada and South America. make sure you have bee pollination. This usually happens in the morning but can last all day. If not, you may have a problem. make sure the fertilizer you're using is right for the right plant. melons vs tomatoes, so on. I use heavy manure around my squash. They are heavy feeders and love cow shit. I personally remove any yellowish leaves underneath my squash. They're getting sun but taking away from overall health. Squash produce many flowers, need to be in sum, fertilized and watered. Also, amending the soil with hearty compost (cut and composted kitchen scraps like lettuce, greens! coffee grind, tuna fish, garlic scapes, and fruit skin) will provide heavy feeders with sufficient nutrients which you can mold around the base of the growing crop. Much love.

The squash bug you showed looks just like the stink bugs that decimated my tomatoes. Do the baby bugs look like orange spiders? We get those here in TX a LOT. They were on every one of my tomatoes on 10 plants. I have been spraying my plants with a mixture of neem oil, dish soap, water, and vegetable oil, and I have new tomatoes coming up but I don't see as many bugs now. I also found the babies on my pomegranate bush.

Are those beetles those stink bugs we're being invaded with...came here to the Pacific NorthWet over a decade ago...came here from Asia? Not sure, but they're decimating the crops here in the area...they destroy apples, peaches...

i love all kinds of squash BUT, i HATE those huge, overgrown/oversized zucchinis with hard skins...they're almost inedible to humans but the cows, horses love them...but for some reason, people allow these "fruits" to continue growing, they wont eat it, but they give it away to others believing they're doing good things for the poor...gosh, if you won't eat it, then why do you think others will? Especially the poor or homeless peeps?

you're so smart, thank you

Place a calcium pill (tums will work well) into a spray bottle,add water shake till dissolved. Spray leaves.This works well for tomato plants as well. This will fix blossom end rot. A lot cheaper that buying products that do the same.

my plants died over night , perfectly healthy , then dead , why ?

how do I treat for pickleworms organically?

thank you for your video that I found easy to follow and very helpful. Halina

ill have no problems but a few slugs here and there if the skies over my homeland were not constantly, and I mean 5 to 6 days every week constantly blocking sunlight. its got so bad in newfoundland Canada that the only sun we get in between the cloud break up and the government made haze..... chem trails are killing us slowly.