Best time to plant zucchini in Hobart
Cucurbita pepo
Also called courgette
Sow zucchini in Hobart in Oct to Dec.
Zucchini is a summer squash, mostly a compact bush in gardens, picked while seeds and rind are still soft enough to eat, normally at 15-25 cm. Most are green, though golden types are deep yellow or orange. Cooks treat the fruit as a vegetable. Discard any that taste very bitter, as they can cause severe stomach upset.
When to sow in Hobart
Hobart, TAS is in the cool zone. The zone also plants in Sep, but Hobart's frost dates make those months risky for a frost-tender crop.
Matches local guides.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Hobart
Frost usually arrives in Hobart around early June and finishes by late August. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early May or as late as early October, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly in the bed
- Sowing depth
- 2-3cm
- Plant spacing
- 150cm
- Row spacing
- 90cm
- Height
- 70cm
- Germination
- About 12 days
- Time to harvest
- 50 days
- Frost
- Frost tender
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.