Cucurbits · warm season
Yellow summer squash
Cucurbita pepo
Straightneck and crookneck types match zucchini’s calendar and share the same pests.
- When to plant in Ohio
- Direct sow late May
- Harvest window
- July through September
- Days to maturity
- 45–55
- Spacing
- 36 in.
- Light
- Full sun
How to grow it
Same planting as zucchini. Pick while skin is tender and glossy. A mid-July sowing often outruns squash bugs that built up on the first planting. Mulch to keep fruit clean after Ohio thunderstorms.
Related cucurbits
Slicing cucumber 50–65
Pickling cucumber 50–60
Zucchini 45–55
Butternut squash 90–110