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Dark Green Zucchini

Dark Green Zucchini

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  • Certified Organic
  • recommended
  • Ships as a 4" plant

Growth Timeline

  • Growing Season: Most fruits/veggies have their peak growing season starting in spring and extending through fall. They need a runway of consecutive warm days and nights (from 60-90) to produce fruit.
  • First Harvest: Fruits/veggies take 2-3 months to bear fruit and/or reach ripeness.
  • Final Harvest: Fruits/veggies start to give out between late summer and early fall in most climates. Some plants, such as strawberries, will become dormant in winter before popping back into action in for spring, but most fruiting plants will need to be replaced after their season is over.

Growing Zone

Grows best in zones 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

Most fruits and veggies prefer warmer temperatures and will be dormant or grow very slowly in colder climates. Refer to the following guidelines concerning extreme weather:

COLD CLIMATES

  • Fruits/veggies require nighttime temperatures to consistently be in the 50s or above to survive.

WARM CLIMATES:

  • Fruits/veggies are made for the heat and will do fine with temperatures above 90 degrees.

To find out what extreme temperatures your location experiences, check out the USDA zone for your region.

More Fruit & Veggie Tips

Support Trailing Plants: Unless you are growing smaller plants (jalapeño or micro-tomatoes) you might want to use stakes, trellises, or cages to support the plants as they grow. This will prevent them from sprawling on the ground. Train the vines to grow vertically for better air circulation and easier harvesting.

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Dark Green Zucchini is a certified organic live 4-inch plant of Cucurbita pepo var. cylindrica — bushy and upright rather than sprawling, with smooth, glossy dark fruit at its best picked young, while the skin still dents under a thumbnail.

One plant is a summer of dinners, which is why it works as happily in a large patio container as in the vegetable bed. Set it out in full sun once the soil is warm, keep rich soil evenly moist, feed lightly after fruit sets, and pick every couple of days to keep it producing. Miss a week and you get the marrow that becomes zucchini bread. Long sleeves make harvest kinder — the leaves are rough and the stems faintly prickly.

Fun fact: zucchini and pie pumpkins are the same species, bred in opposite directions — summer squash for tender fruit picked young, winter types for a hard rind built to store.

  • Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hrs)
  • Water: Keep moist
  • Mature Size: 2'–4' tall × over 24" wide
  • Harvest Season: Summer, Fall
  • Lifespan: Annual
  • Attracts: Bees

Certified organic and backed by our guarantee — it arrives healthy or we replace it free.

We take great care to ensure our seedlings are healthy and well-established before they’re shipped. We pre-germinate the organic seeds and grow them up to 12 weeks before shipping them as mature plants ready for transplant. Seedlings typically arrive within 1-4 days. For more information, see our shipping policy.