Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?

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Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?

The only time I cut the leaves off is when the lower ones turn yellow.

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Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?

Probably. Give it a try and let us know.

If my zucchini in the greenhouse gets any bigger, I'll let you
know what happens when you prune leaves... I think zucchini plants
are probably pretty hard to kill.

My neighbors are starting to lock their car doors, so I can't leave
baskets of zucchini in their cars when they aren't looking.

Jan, in Alaska

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The way to a man's heart is between the fourth and the fifth rib.

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Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?

I trim back large ones when they encroach other plants regularly.
Hasn't seemed to hurt Them. Like the other poster I yank away dying
ones too.

DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
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LOL, I like your thinking. I hadn't thought about leaving them in parked
cars...Might have to give that a try this year.


"Jan Flora" wrote in message
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| Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?
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| Probably. Give it a try and let us know.
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| If my zucchini in the greenhouse gets any bigger, I'll let you
| know what happens when you prune leaves... I think zucchini plants
| are probably pretty hard to kill.
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| My neighbors are starting to lock their car doors, so I can't leave
| baskets of zucchini in their cars when they aren't looking.
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| Jan, in Alaska
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| The way to a man's heart is between the fourth and the fifth rib.

Years ago a friend at work gave me a huge Zuchinni. I put it in the
trunk of my car and forgot about it. It began to smell and I never
got the smell out.

Ironically, I sold the car to this friend's neighbor's daughter. It
had the smell in the trunk and he never did find out what caused it.

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:59:29 -0800, Jan Flora
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Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?

Probably. Give it a try and let us know.

If my zucchini in the greenhouse gets any bigger, I'll let you
know what happens when you prune leaves... I think zucchini plants
are probably pretty hard to kill.

My neighbors are starting to lock their car doors, so I can't leave
baskets of zucchini in their cars when they aren't looking.

Jan, in Alaska

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Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?

Yes, but why would you want to? If in the way you can bend the stem
so it creases and falls aside into other leaves but doesn't actually
break off the plant. Remember, the leaf is actually a large solar collector,
gathering sunlight that the plant uses in converting light and nutrients
into delicious fruit!

If a leaf is touching the ground you can place dry straw under it to lift it
away from contact with soil fungus, or else cut it off knowing that it is
going to go mouldy sometime soon, anyway.

If you do sever a large leaf, give the hollow stalk to a kid to blow through
and drive the household to distraction!
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

writes:
Years ago a friend at work gave me a huge Zuchinni. I put it in the
trunk of my car and forgot about it. It began to smell and I never
got the smell out.

When I was a uni student I lived away from home to be closer to the campus.
My parents visited one time and brought me a large marrow that Dad had
grown. I propped it up in the corner of my bedroom and forgot about it.
Rediscovering it months later, I marched through the house with it slung
over my shoulder and in the kitchen announced, "I'm going to cook this for
dinner" as I swung it down from my shoulder towards the tabletop. In mid-arc
the marrow disgorged its rotted contents of watery mush to splatter from one
end of the kitchen floor to the other. I was left with just an empty rubbery
tube, and a stinking kitchen floor to wash. It was fortunate that the rotter
had held together while I carried it down the carpet in the hallway or the
mess would not have so easily been cleaned up!
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

my zuchini plan is dying already after only producing about 4 zuchinnies,
not including the 3 that got sun scorched and died earlier in teh season
when I ask my friend ot water while I was away. Anyhow, all leaves are
yellowing and wilting. Help, is this normal and should it die this soon?


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Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?

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my zuchini plan is dying already after only producing about 4 zuchinnies,
not including the 3 that got sun scorched and died earlier in teh season
when I ask my friend ot water while I was away. Anyhow, all leaves are
yellowing and wilting. Help, is this normal and should it die this soon?


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Can some of the huge leaves be cut off of zuchinni plants?


If ALL of the leaves are yellow and wilting the plant may be sick.
There are squash borers that eat into a stem and can kill the whole
plant off from that point. I lost two yellow squash plants to them
already. The die off can be sudden. Try burying the stem and see if it
will take root along the stem and come back for later in the season.


I haven't been getting much zucchini either, 4-5 so far. And I've got
three plants. But most of the leaves are nice, big, firm and green.
Older leaves and small ones hidden underneath yellow. Some always turn
gray and crumble in to powder-bone dry. I think the unusual extended
heat we've had is an issue. I know I got zucchini all through
september last year so there is time here. Maybe zucc's like late
summer better than the high-of-summer. I certaily have had a lot of
flowers, and I can see bees in the garden everyday I'm out there.
Maybe it is just producing lots of male flowers.

I do have mildew (probably powdery) on the big leaves, but I always
see some of that on the large leafed squashes. I was going to treat it
with a weak milk and baking soda solution to see if that helps any.


DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
3rd year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalf...=/2055&.src=ph