Notes
Dry-matter zucchini that actually tastes like something. Male blossoms are a market SKU. Single row, 24-inch in-row. Squash vine borer — row cover until bloom.
Cultivars / Cucurbits
Costata Romanesco
Zucchini · Cucurbita pepo
DTM
52 d
135 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
24 in in-row
Density
0.5
plants / bed-ft
Yield
5
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$11.25
$2.50 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 18 d
- Germination
- 7 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 95°F (opt 85°F)
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 24 in
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 0.5
- Plants / 50 ft
- 25
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 52 d
- Holding
- 45 d
- Occupancy
- 135 d
- Multicut
- yes · 20 cuts · 2 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 5
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 5 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.25 / $2.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.65
- Weekly water
- 1.3 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 32.5
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 101.3
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.4 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.75 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 3.5 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.2 / 0.4 / 1.8 lb
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-15
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-28
- First harvest
- 2026-06-06
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 12 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 30 seeds · 25 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $281.25 / $562.50
Companions
bean · onion · nasturtium
Avoid
potato