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This magnificent zucchini variety, belonging to the zucchini group, was bred back in 1980, and since then everyone who grows it on their backyards has not praised its quality. The variety is suitable for cultivation in the greenhouse and in the open field. Gives a bountiful harvest of fruits of excellent taste. It is grown throughout Russia, both in warm and northern regions.
Tsukesha zucchini: characteristics and brief description of the variety
A compact, low-branched bush, without numerous lashes that complicate care. The fruits are located under the leaf rosette.
Young zucchini are dark green in color, and when mature they are covered with light specks. When fully ripe, they acquire a copper tint.
Tsukesh zucchini
The leaves of the plant are large, five-lobed, with a strong dissection, not prickly, covered with gray-white spots (not to be confused with powdery mildew!).
The flowers are large, bright yellow, like an egg yolk. Male and female. Zucchini Zucchini Zucchini is self-pollinated, perfectly free of insects.
The fruits reach a weight of about 1 kg and a length of 40 cm.
The yield is good - up to 12 kg of fruit can be removed from 1 square meter. However, we must remember that only proper care will allow you to remove such a number of zucchini.
The variety is early maturing. The first zucchini will ripen 45 days after germination, and the last specimens will delight before the onset of frost.
Description of the fruit
Cylindrical zucchini is good in the period of milky ripeness - still dark, medium-sized (10-12 cm), with thin skin and very juicy. The seeds have not yet formed, the middle can not be cut out, but consumed whole - raw and thermally processed. But the grown zucchini will not lose its juiciness and tenderness, only the seeds from the core will have to be removed.
Can be eaten raw or cooked
Large fruits, reaching 35-40 cm in length, are well preserved, do not lose their presentation and taste. Perhaps it will be possible to prepare a dish from them even for the New Year.
With longer storage, the zucchini will become coarser, difficult to clean, and the core will dry out.
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Chemical composition
Low-calorie product - only 15 kcal per 100 grams, contains a lot of nutrients:
- vitamins - A, group B; C, D, E, K, N. PP;
- trace elements - calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium, iron, copper, etc .;
- saturated fatty acids. Moreover, it consists of 90% water.
Due to this composition, the vegetable is widely used in dietary nutrition.
Agrotechnics
Zucchini Zucchini Zucchini will grow both in the greenhouse and in the garden. In a greenhouse, this will happen faster, but practice shows that in the open field, the harvest will not have to wait much longer. The cultivation of this culture does not present any difficulties for gardeners.
Seat selection
A sunny place with fertile soil, preferably without stagnant groundwater, and even better - on a small hill - ideal for a vegetable marrow. A compost heap will do, or you can use the free space on the outskirts of other plantings. The culture develops successfully among the sod. It is enough to dig a hole, and a powerful compact bush will fight the weeds by itself.
A place with fertile soil
Boarding time
For Central and North-West Russia, the Zucchini variety Tsukesha can be planted in late May - early June, when return frosts are no longer expected at night. If you want to plant them a little earlier, so that the bushes begin to bear fruit at the end of June, the plantings must be covered overnight. To do this, use a film (until the shoots have appeared), plastic bottles with cut necks or buckets when the leaves have grown.
Planting methods
- Seeds in the ground.
- Seedlings in the ground.
- Seeds in the greenhouse.
- Seedlings in a greenhouse.
Seeds in the ground. To speed up the process, the seeds are best germinated at home. They are wrapped in a wet cloth or gauze and placed in a warm place for a couple of days. After they hatch, hardening must be carried out (24 hours in the refrigerator).
In the meantime, it's time to prepare the ground for planting. Several buckets of humus or compost plus a 1 square meter glass of ash. Dig holes for seeds with a diameter of 15 cm and 3 cm deep.
Seeds
When soaking the seeds, one must remember that two seeds are planted in each hole in order to leave only one, the strongest sprout in the future.
After the seeds are sown, water and mulch the soil well.
Planting seedlings in the ground. Seedlings grown on the windowsill can be safely planted in open ground, especially if they were a little hardened a week before transplanting to a permanent place.
Caring for her will be no different from caring for seed shoots. Healthy seedlings will quickly take root and grow.
Seeds in the greenhouse. A common method for growing zucchini in cold areas. Sprouted seeds are planted in pre-prepared soil, heated to +15 degrees. If the planting time falls on a cool period, then in the greenhouse, fresh sowing must be covered with a film, which is removed after the first shoots.
Soil preparation is no different from the composition of open ground. The only thing that can be added: if there is a lack of organic fertilizers, they can be added directly to the hole - this is a big economy of organic matter.
Seedlings in a greenhouse. This method will give the fastest result. Seedlings are grown in small cups with humus on the windowsill, on the sunny side.
Seedlings in a greenhouse
The main thing after transplanting into a greenhouse is to observe agricultural techniques and temperature conditions.
Landing. Scheme. Leave 50 cm between the holes, in the same case if the zucchini plantation is solid - the distance between the rows should be at least 70 cm.
Watering
Zucchini, like other types of zucchini (white, yellow, striped), are moisture-loving plants. For the ripening of juicy fruits, abundant watering is required, but there are also subtleties:
- lay hay around a powerful stem, put planks under the young fruits. Then the vegetable marrow will not lie on the ground;
- one bucket of warm water (at least 20 degrees) leaves for each bush;
- try to pour water as close to the stem as possible;
- in a dry summer, it is useful not only to water at the root, but also to spray water on top of the bush.
Top dressing
You can not apply fertilizer only if the zucchini is planted on a compost heap, in all other cases additional nutrition is required - humus and potash fertilizer.
Top dressing
Removing leaves
Zucchini of all varieties have a feature - large lower leaves eventually sink to the ground, damp. Slugs settle on them and under them, they are affected by the fungus. If you don't pay attention to this in time, then you can lose the whole plant. Such lower leaves must be removed with pruning shears.
There are also crown-forming leaves in the center of the bush. A well-fertilized plant produces a powerful leaf that begins to shade and clog the space needed by the flowers, as well as airing and penetration of sunlight. Several of these leaves can also be removed with pruning shears.
Harvesting
Since the vegetable ripens gradually, then harvesting is reduced to breaking off several ripe fruits daily. The procedure is best done in dry weather.
For long-term storage, the fruits are harvested at the end of August, they can be grown a little longer, then the peel will become firm, which will have a good effect on preservation.
Benefits of the variety
Tsukesha, a type of zucchini, has many advantages:
- self-pollinated;
- early ripening;
- frost-resistant;
- high productivity;
- with immunity to many diseases;
- with a small amount of astringent substances, which makes it possible to use raw (especially small fruits);
- good keeping quality.
This varietal zucchini has only advantages and has no disadvantages at all.
