Growing Zucchini in Containers: How to Grow Courgettes in Pots - Everything you need to Know!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- The Ultimate Guide for Growing Zucchini (aka Courgettes) in containers for beginners: Everything you need to know in under 30 minutes.
In this growing zucchini video I show you how to grow zucchini in pots. In the UK we call zucchini courgettes so that's what I refer to them in this video.
Here is the timestamp map of this "How to grow courgettes in containers" video:
COURGETTE SEED STARTING
0:12 What are the different types of zucchini species?
1:10 How many zucchini per plant?
1:16 How many zucchini plants per person?
1:27 Picking the best courgette seeds in the packet
2:07 When to plant zucchini? what month do you plant squash?
2:49 Equipment needed for zucchini seed starting
4:00 Which soil to use for seed starting courgettes
5:00 How to pre-moisten soil
5:35 Filling the seed starting pots with soil
6:11 How to plant zucchini seeds
6:48 How to chit courgette seeds
7:52 How to plant chitted zucchini seeds
GROWING ZUCCHINI INDOORS
8:53 Best place to put seed starting trays or pots indoors
9:07 Be careful not to overwater as this can cause the seeds to rot and die
9:19 Checking moisture levels of seed-starting pots or trays
9:36 How to water seed-starting pots or trays
SEEDLING GROWTH:
10:12 Zucchini growth stages (Days 0-7)
10:41 Stabilizing leggy courgette seedlings
11:23 Protect seedling from extreme sun
11:55 Hardening off zucchini: How to harden off courgette plants
TRANSPLANTING OUTDOORS
14:56 How to transplant zucchini outdoors
15:20 What size container to grow zucchini in ? Recommended pot size for courgettes - How much space does a zucchini plant need?
16:06 What soil mix to use for planting courgettes
16:37 Planting zucchini seedlings in containers
17:23 Mulching your zucchini plants
18:24 Advantages of growing courgettes in pots rather than in the ground
18:56 FLOWER & FRUIT DEVELOPMENT
19:03 First sign of flower buds & first flowers
19:16 How flowers work
19:45 How flowers lead to fruit formation
19:50 How pollination occurs
20:07 Stages of flower development on courgettes
20:30 How to if a zucchini flower is male or female
21:07 Why incomplete pollination may occur
21:16 Result of poor or failed pollination in courgettes
21:26 How to hand pollinate zucchini or courgette plants
HARVESTING
22:13 When should you harvest your zucchini
22:27 Time it takes to go from pollinated flower to full-sized courgette
22:42 Can you grow huge courgettes like marrows?
23:01 Zucchini Safety note: How to make sure your courgettes are safe to eat
TIPS FOR GROWING ZUCCHINI
24:22 How to care for a zucchini plant
24:24 How much water do zucchini plants need?
25:31 Fertilizing courgettes: Which fertilizer to use for zucchini plants & how often should you fertilize them?
26:11 What is an NPK fertilizer & what does each nutrient do in a courgette plant?
27:35 Calcium supplements for courgettes to prevent blossom end rot
28:05 How to prune zucchini plants: Should you remove old leaves & stems?
THE END
28:55 How do you know when you zucchini plant has finished producing and is done for the year?
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Music credits:
Glen Canyon by Dan Lebowitz
Jeremiah's song by Dan Lebowitz
Surrender by Dan Lebowitz
Blue Creek Trail by Dan Lebowitz
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Thanks to all the amazing gardening youtube channels for teaching me and inspiring me to grow this year for the first time! Special thanks for the inspiration to Claire at ClairesAllotment, Kevin Espiritu at Epic Gardening, Gary Pilarchik at The Rusted Garden, Cali Kim at CaliKim29, Luke at Migardener, Project Diaries, GIY, Quickcrop, GrowVeg, Scott Head, Liz Zorab at Byther Farm, Charles Dowding, Tony at Simplify Gardening and Mark Valencia at Self Sufficient Me! Also thank you to all the amazing people on fb gardening & grow your own groups and forums that were always there on hand for support and to answer questions throughout the growing process :)
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NB. None of the products mentioned in this video were sponsored. They're just the products I used.
Please also note, I am very new to gardening so even though I researched a lot for this video and did my best to ensure everything in this video is accurate, I still have lots to learn. Please feel free to let me know if there is anything I could have done better or if you have any tips or tricks for growing courgettes better.
I'll start with I absolutely love the tone of your voice... second of all this is the most comprehensive video on courgettes I've ever watched..👍
Ditto - you have taken the very words out of my mouth - spot on comment.
I’m growing zucchini in pot for the first time. Your vide is very helpful! Thank you.
I love your voice. Its so relaxing
I love how thorough your video is :) and it goes through all the stages and its concise in each section. I appreciate all the diagrams as well! Thank youuu!
Best video I have seen on the subject! Thankyou.
Excellent video with lots of useful information. Thanks for the tips. I look forward to seeing more from you soon.
Excellent and thorough video 💜🙂. Thank you for your effort in making this. Best wishes.
What an amazingly comprehensive video! You answered probavly every question I possibly had about growing container zucchini. And the calcium carbonate tip was so helpful! Thanks for all the hard work!
This is a very informative and thorough video. Very very good!
love this video very comprehensive
Really helpful! Thank you - next year hopefully mine will be better :)
New to your channel, amazing video.
Very good video
Thanks for a really helpful video
Thanks a lot. This is a very informative video. I have watched a few to get tips as have never grown them before. There is so much to remember and do that i dont know if i would succeed. Also so much can go wrong throughout the process. One other gardener put some coffee granules and a bit of sand in the soil and also something called Red X. But it is a costly business if you cant afford 'the ingredients'. So i will give it a go and keep my not so green fingers crossed. Xx take care and you are a great teacher. Peace.
Thanks for your comment :)
I think a lot of products are optional to boost production or help soil aeration, but you definitely can get crops even without the boost. Personally, as a beginner, I'd keep things simple, and try experimenting with boosters with a future growing project, after establishing more confidence and experience with the basics.
My first year growing I felt exactly the same: worried at every step that I might do something wrong, but just give it your best shot - that's all we can do :) Learn up on what you can, and with a bit of luck, everything will go brilliantly for you! Good luck!
Wow, it's really beautiful.
Thanks that was a great video and very helpful
Nice video !!
Growing some myself
Extra Notes:
Please use the Timestamp map in the description to jump to a specific sub-topic you're looking for :)
More notes:
0:39 Other than Orelia, there are other spineless varieties too
eg. Spineless Beauty Zucchini & Spineless Perfection. Add "spineless" to your zucchini seed search and you might find more new spineless varieties :)
27:58 Some say to give 750mg calcium or even up to x3-this-amount every 2-4 weeks
One of the best zucchini videos out there! So informative and covers everything. Really glad you put in the part about checking the fruit because that's the thing I'm most scared about, hoping I don't have any of those bad seeds in my batch. Will come back to this video as I go through the process (currently on day 11!) What would you suggest for a rookie that grew way too many seedlings? I've got about 9 that sprouted and it's just me & my husband 🙈😂
I'm glad you found the video helpful :)
With 9 plants, I'd probably try to give some away as gifts to friends and family if I could. If it's just the two of you, 3-4 plants should be plenty. You could keep one or two extra as backups if you want to be extra cautious. If you can't give any plants away and all your plants survive including the backups, then you'll likely have quite a lot of courgettes on your hands this summer. Possible solutions:
- experiment with lots of courgette recipes (eg courgette bread, cakes etc),
- giving the veggies away to friends, family & neigbours
- doing some kind of trades / swaps,
- or even selling them!
- Or you could have a play around and let some of the extra plants grow really huuuge courgettes just for fun to see how big they get, which would stop them producing quite as many.
@@jivinggerbil These are great ideas, thanks so much! I think I'll ask friends if they want some and then I'll leave 3 or 4 and if it get's overwhelming I know my mum would take a bunch to work.
I was worried about giving away seedlings in case they were a bad batch but will just let the people growing them know that they need to check them first (will send them this video).
I also have a lot of tomato seedlings haha so might do the same for those because I only have a balcony to work with. It's really big for London but still worried I'll have more forest than I'd hoped for 😂 Thanks for your help!
@@AbiChow Sounds like a good plan - good luck! ^_^
@@jivinggerbil Wow that sounds like a fun project. I wonder how big they'll grow! Good luck too, I hope it goes really well.
Also I see you're a travel lover too! Hope to see more veggie growing vids (and travel videos when everything's back to normal). Happy I found your channel too 😊
Thank you so much ❤
Great vid - many thanks - echo sonia below.
Love your video, do informative and useful. One question about the watering method , not watering the leaves. What is the cause of the tiny white spots on the leaves? Are they harmless, or it’s a disease that the defected leaves should be removed?
Thanks for your comment :)
The spotting could be sunburn that occurs usually on the oldest, less toughened leaves that grew when the plant was started off indoors and was not used to strong direct outdoor sun. Hardening off is meant to help prevent too much sunburn from happening but sometimes even after hardening off properly, it still happens. I'm not sure but I think it can also more occur on plants that were sown outside from the start if the sun is particularly strong and intense. I think some people use shade cloths to protect the leaves from periods of extreme prolonged heat and strong sun.
Mild sunburn is harmless - those leaves can still function to serve the plant and the plant will survive - it just doesn't look pretty. If the plant has lots of leaves, so has some to spare, you can remove the sunburned ones. If it doesn't have a lot of leaves yet, I'd leave the sunburned ones attached until it grows more leaves, and then remove the damaged ones.
Wow I like her voice
Bruh who doesnt, no matter what😂