Best time to plant zucchini in Longreach
Cucurbita pepo
Also called courgette
Sow zucchini in Longreach in Sep to Feb.
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 Longreach
Longreach, QLD is in the arid zone. The zone also plants in Aug, but Longreach's frost dates make those months risky for a frost-tender crop.
Broadly matches local guides, with some differences.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Longreach
Frost usually arrives in Longreach around mid June and finishes by early August. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early June or as late as late August, 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.