Summer Squash
cucurbit
- 2025 · Ground bed · local nursery (variety not tracked)
- Spacing
- 36 in
- Trellis
- no
- Direct seed
- Apr 15(at frost)
- Harvest
- ~6–8 weeks from sowing
- Last fall harvest
- Oct 15(at frost)
- Succession
- every 2-3 weeks
- Water
- 1-2 per week
- Seed shelf life
- 5–6 y
- Lifecycle
- annual
- Seed source
- local nursery (variety not tracked)
Plant 1 per 9 sqft (3 ft spacing). Direct seed when soil hits 70°F. Heavy producers once started — succession-sow every 2-3 weeks to keep ahead of squash bugs and vine borers and to refresh fruit quality.