Light
Full sun in an open position.
Learn how to care for your green friend
Desert F1 Zucchini
Cucurbita pepo · Desert F1 Zucchini
Vegetables · Planned variety
Meet your green friend.
Desert is a dark, lightly speckled zucchini on productive plants.
A space where it can thrive
Grow as a cultivated garden crop in a bed or suitably sized container. The illustrated nursery pot is a presentation, not a recommendation for the mature plant’s root space.
Ask about availabilityAvailability, size, pot and price will be confirmed in store. Pictures illustrate the plant type.
Studio illustration. Appearance varies with age, variety and growing conditions.
Your care routine
Watering
Water deeply and regularly as fruit develops, at the soil rather than over the foliage.
Soil & drainage
Warm, compost-enriched, well-drained soil with ample space.
Fertilizer
Prepare the bed with mature compost. This crop benefits from adequate nutrition during active growth; follow a suitable vegetable fertilizer label and your soil test rather than adding an arbitrary dose.
Temperature
Frost-tender crop: start with warmth and move outside only after cold weather has passed.
Planting
Sow or transplant after soil warms; protect young plants from cold, then allow pollinator access at flowering.
Harvest
Pick immature summer fruit while the skin is tender. Black Beauty and Desert are zucchini; Sunburst is a small yellow pattypan.
Through the seasons
Remove oversized summer fruit to maintain production. For winter types, allow sufficient time for fruit to ripen before frost.
When your plant needs help
- Pick young tender summer fruit frequently, and stagger plantings instead of letting the first crop become overgrown.
Pets & little ones
This guide covers a cultivated garden crop. Confirm the identity and the edible part before harvesting; wash produce and keep unverified plants away from children and pets.
Grow with your neighbourhood store.
Independent, family-owned and right here in Uptown New Westminster. Browse before your visit and keep this guide handy at home.
Visit The Golden BazaarCare references
Guidance is a starting point. Adjust watering to your plant, pot, light and season; follow fertilizer labels and check outdoor cultivar hardiness.