Summer Squash Production in Miami-Dade County, Florida

, Dakshina Seal, Shouan Zhang, Peter Dittmar, Yuncong Li, Waldemar Klassen, andQingren Wang

Release Date: 7/10/2022

Reviewed At: 12/9/2025

DOI: 10.32473/edis-tr012-2016

Agriculture

Abstract

Summer squash is an important vegetable crop in Miami-Dade County. It is grown annually on about 6,000 acres and sold nationwide during the winter in the fresh market. This 16-page fact sheet describes the varieties of summer squash, land preparation and transplanting, what fertilizer to use, irrigation and freeze protection, disease management, insect management, weed management, harvest, and crop rotation.

About this Publication

This document is HS-861, one of a series of the Department of Horticultural Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date June 2001. Revised April 2006, June 2016, and June 2022. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. This document is written specifically for growers in Miami-Dade County as a supplement to Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida (CV292) (https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/collections/vph). We thank many colleagues, growers and representatives from seed and chemical companies and grower services for reviewing the document.

How to Cite

Seal, D. R., Zhang, S., Ozores-Hampton, M., Dittmar, P. J., Li, Y., Klassen, W., Wang, Q., & Olczyk, T. (2016). Summer Squash Production in Miami-Dade County, Florida. EDIS, 2016(5), 16. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-tr012-2016

Authors

Teresa Olczyk

retired county Extension director and Extension agent IV, M.S., agriculture/commercial ornamental horticulture, UF/IFAS Miami-Dade County Extension Homestead FL

Dakshina Seal

Specialist

University of Florida

scientist, pest management, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, FL

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Shouan Zhang

Specialist

University of Florida

professor, vegetable and tropical fruit disease management, Department of Plant Pathology, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, FL

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