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Good Companion Plants for Zucchini and Summer Squash Corn: Corn shares space well with zucchini and summer squash, since it grows vertically while the squash grow along the ground. The squash plants also help shade the soil to reduce the weeds that compete with the corn plants. Both corn and summer squash have the same moisture and soil fertility requirements, so they are very good neighbors. Beans: Pole beans, especially, work well planted near zucchini and other summer squashes.
Stem Rot on Squashes. Take good care of your squash plants to avoid stem rot. The term squash includes both winter squash and summer squash. Summer squashes are usually eaten while immature, such as zucchini, while winter squashes are eaten when mature, such as acorn squash. These plants are frost tender and grow as annuals in most climates. Squashes are fairly easy to grow, but a few pests, fungi and bacteria problems that can cause rotting of the stem.