Marianne's Response

Zucchini plant not producing

My zucchini plant is big and beautiful with lots of blooms—but no zucchini! Why?

Posted by Tammy Brenneman on September 9, 2014

Marianne's Response

Sounds like lack of pollination. Gardeners often add flowers like marigolds to their squash gardens to attract more bees to pollinate the blooms. You can also do this yourself with a tiny paint brush. Just stroke the pollen from one bloom and move it to another by touching the center of each flower as a bee would do. Now you've just fooled Mother Nature. Keep growing, Marianne Binetti