Gardener's Guide to Growing Zucchini and Summer Squash is a vegetable planting guide for the gardener that provides information for growing zucchini and other summer squash in the vegetable garden. Summer squash can provide a bountiful harvest in the summer garden, providing squash for frying, grilling, pickling and casseroles. Since most are compact growers, the summer squash can provide loads of squash in a small area. Gardeners may want to plant multiple varieties of summer squash for a varied harvest. Gardener's Guide to Growing Zucchini and Summer Squash provides a wealth of information about growing, harvesting and preserving zucchini and other summer squash. It includes descriptions of the four different groups of summer squash, including: Yellow summer squash Zucchini types Scalloped or patty pan squash Mid-east or Cousa varieties This vegetable planting guide also has a list of companies that stock summer squash seed. The garden vegetable series Gardener's Guide to Growing Your Vegetable Garden includes this book. This exciting new series of vegetable gardening planting guide books will include twenty vegetables. These are the most common ones grown in the home vegetable garden. The books will all include complete growing, culture, botanical, and harvesting and storage information. Great for veteran or beginning gardeners the series is written for gardeners by a gardener.