How should I treat a broken leaf stem on my zucchini plant?
While my husband was building me a trellis for my container zucchini and squash plants (so I can grow them vertically) he accidentally broke one of the stem leaves. The leaf isn't broke off, but it does just hang. I'm not sure if I should cut it off or what. What is the best thing to do for the plant?
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Exactly.johnny123 wrote:Right, Cut away.
Just try to kill it.
It will just keep growing.
I had cucumbers growing one year that got out of hand I trimmed about 2/3 off of it and yanked and pulled it through the fence and where ever it was growing to put it on a trellis. I still trimmed it several times that year I could not kill it and it produced gobs of fruit.
They both have the same sort of growing habits.