For months, we nurture our zucchini—from seed to small seedlings, and then to larger plants in the garden. The blossoms sprout, and anticipation grows. But then, no fruits develop. myHOMEBOOK ...

Q: My zucchini squash won't bear fruit. The plant is big and lush and is producing lots of flowers — even some tiny baby squash that wither and fall off without developing. I have heard the gardener ...

Some of the most common questions I’m asked by backyard vegetable growers concern zucchini. The plants either produce like crazy, inspiring memes about gardeners anonymously leaving overflow harvests ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q • What causes the little squash to start to form on my zucchini, then turn brown, rot and fall off? My plants have many ...

Question: My zucchini blossoms and after the blossom falls off there is no vegetable. This happened last year with purchased plants and this year from plants I grew from seed. Do you have any idea ...

It's a good bet that these pretty squash, which captured first place in a vegetable show, were not virus-infected. Tiny piercing and sucking insects transmit viruses into plants that affect the ...

There’s a joke among gardeners who grow zucchini. During good years, we tease about leaving a few baseball bat-sized zucchini on the neighbor’s stoop and doing the old ding-dong-dash just to get rid ...

We're not afraid to say it: zucchini plants are a little needy. Not emotionally, obviously, but horticulturally. There are quite a few mistakes you could be making when growing zucchini, but if you ...

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because they are both. The same can be said of cucumbers, peppers, zucchini and any part of a plant that contains seeds. I often wonder ...

QUESTION: Is it true that if you plant hot peppers on the same row as sweet peppers, the sweet pepper plants will cross with the hot peppers and become hot? -- William Carver ANSWER: I get variations ...