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You can grow zucchini even if you don’t have a lot of space! Here are the six varieties of zucchini that will thrive and produce a huge harvest in pots or containers.
Zucchini is one of the best vegetables that beginning gardeners can grow in containers. It’s nearly foolproof, produces tons of veggies all summer long, and zucchini comes in lots of fun shapes and colors.
Some varieties of zucchini will take over your garden due to their large size–like these plants in our community garden that are nearly four feet across.
You would need a giant container, and a lot of space, to grow a plant that large in a pot! These six varieties of squash, however, are designed to be compact and are perfect for growing in containers.
Have questions about how to get them growing? Here’s everything you need to know about growing zucchini in containers.
Cube of Butter
What a delight! Cube of Butter is great in containers and would be a fun addition to a kids’ garden. This bright and sunny, butter-yellow squash has a melt-in-your-mouth butter flavor raw or cooked.
Plants are very productive for a continuous harvest. Pick squash at any size from small to large, and the fruit still has all of its tempting qualities.
Easy to harvest because plants are open and have fewer spines than other varieties. Disease resistant to zucchini yellow mosaic virus, downy mildew, and podi virus.
Black Beauty Organic Heirloom
This highly productive bush-type heirloom from the 1920s takes up little garden space, with compact vines forming a 2' tall by 3'–4' bush-type plant.
Glossy, dark green fruits have creamy white flesh. Can be steamed, sautéed, added to soups, omelets, and breads, made into relish, and eaten raw in salads or with dip.
Jaune et Verte Pattypan Squash
This beautiful French heirloom patty pan is tender when picked young, with thin, delicate skin. Attractive light green fruits in a unique tulip shape have dense, flavorful flesh that’s perfect for stuffing.
Rind varies from light green (verte), to yellow (jaune), to radial green stripes on ivory squash. Harvest and eat fresh all summer or allow to mature as an ornamental squash.
Emerald Delight
'Emerald Delight' was developed with a more compact, open growing habit, to make it easier to spot those elusive, tasty squash.
These are also ready to harvest about one week earlier than other zucchini, at 55 days. Plants are resistant to powdery mildew, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, and watermelon mosaic virus 2.
Max's Gold
A twist on an old favorite, Max’s Gold has beautiful color outside, and flavorful, firm squash inside. Bush-type plant grows to about 3’ tall and 3-4’ wide.
Long, straight fruits have a small seed cavity, meaning there's more delicious squash to eat. It's ideal for grilling, snacking on fresh, or adding to salads.
Astia
Astia is a well-bred French bush zucchini variety. These non-rambling, compact squash vines are also highly ornamental with big silvery-green, deeply indented leaves.
Early bearing and productive, Astia bears abundant zucchini near the base of the plant where they are easy to harvest. These uniformly smooth, lustrous, glossy-green zucchini have excellent flavor and are delicious whether roasted, sautéed, steamed or baked.
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