Full description of the variety of zucchini roller and its cultivation

Zucchini belongs to one of the most grateful garden vegetables. It is distinguished by its unpretentiousness in cultivation, gives excellent harvests, delighting with its presence in exquisite dishes. Many tend to grow different varieties that ripen in turn. This lean approach allows you to eat healthy vegetables all season long. The video is included in the group of early ripening zucchini.

Description and characteristics of the variety of courgettes roller

The vegetable is intended for fresh consumption, can be excellently preserved for the winter season. The fruits are white, they are distinguished by beautiful oval shapes, covered with a not too dense crust. On average, one vegetable weighs from 1,000 to 1,300 g. The pulp is light green, loose, juicy. The vegetable is perfectly grown not only in greenhouse conditions, but also in unprotected soil. The period from germination to technical ripening is no more than forty days. If you observe the peculiarities of cultivation and organize proper care, then from each square meter of the plot there is an opportunity to collect up to ten kilograms of the crop.

Advantages and disadvantages

Here is a description of the advantages of a zucchini roller, thanks to which it gained popularity among gardeners:

• resistance to temperature extremes, which allows early landing;
• excellent presentation and transportability;
• growing in various soils;
• excellent taste.

Small fruits can be used in vegetable salads, replacing them with cucumbers that have not yet had time to grow. The variety does not require special care; it can do without regular watering for some time.

Preparing seeds for planting

To get a good harvest, good quality seeds should be planted. A photograph of one or another variety must be applied to the bag.

Seeds are allowed to be sown directly on the beds under plastic wrap or in open ground. Direct sowing should be done after the ground is warm enough and its temperature is fourteen to sixteen degrees.

Soil preparation

For planting this vegetable, the beds must be chosen on light soils. For sowing zucchini, the soil must be filled with organic matter. The place for zucchini requires good sunlight and protection from the effects of winds.

The predecessors can be potatoes, cabbage, onions, or legumes. It is forbidden to plant zucchini in areas where cucumbers, pumpkins and squash grew.

Seed planting technology

If the seedling method is chosen, then you should start doing it already in April, so that by the time of planting in open ground, the seedlings have time to get stronger. A nutritious soil composition is being prepared, laid out in planting containers. Twenty-five days later, the seedlings are transplanted into the beds according to the scheme "seventy to seventy" centimeters.

If planting is carried out with seeds in the ground, then two seeds should be placed in the prepared holes. The sprouts that have appeared are examined, the weaker one is removed.

It is not recommended to plant zucchini seeds early.They will lie in cool soil for a long time, germination will not be as amicable as we would like.

Bush care

Post-planting care mainly consists of correct irrigation and nutrition of the crop. It is necessary to water the plants in a timely and regular manner, especially during the period of flowering and fruit formation.

Otherwise, there are no difficulties. Zucchini must be weeded from weeds, loosen the soil between the rows, periodically apply fertilizers.

Diseases and their prevention

During the cultivation of the culture, in addition to the introduction of nutrient compositions, it is required to carry out measures to destroy the melon aphid - the main enemy of the squash. Other harmful parasites practically do not harm Rolik. Aphids most often affect the beds during bad weather. At the time of mass lesions on plants, leaflets are deformed, inflorescences and young ovaries fall off.

Experienced gardeners in pest control give preference to non-chemical compositions, which include the following:

• infused wood ash at the rate of two glasses per bucket of water. A piece of finely chopped laundry soap is also added there. Everything is stirred, infused during the day. Leaves are sprayed with the product once a week;
• tobacco infusion. To do this, take sixty grams of tobacco or tobacco dust, pour a liter of boiling water. The composition also requires the addition of ten grams of laundry soap. It is necessary to insist twenty-four hours, foliage processing is performed every seven days;
• 450 g of finely chopped dandelion leaves are poured with ten liters of hot water, insisted for two hours. Plants are processed in the morning or evening hours.

If you use special chemical compositions, then Spark, Strela, Intavir, Decis are recommended for use. Each of the products must be used after carefully studying the accompanying instructions for use.

If during the ovary of fruits it becomes necessary to treat plants from harmful parasites, then it is best to use the biological preparation Fitoverm.

Harvesting and storage rules

Harvesting ripe vegetables can be carried out from mid-summer to the onset of the autumn season. Choose zucchini twice a week. It is not recommended to allow the fruits to overgrow and reach a length of fifteen to twenty centimeters.

Fresh zucchini is best kept in the refrigerator in the amount that is necessary for fresh consumption until the next harvest. It is better to preserve the rest of the crop so that the vegetable retains the maximum amount of nutrients.

The main advantage of the Roller is the reviews of gardeners. Everyone who grew this variety was happy with the rich harvests.