Beginner Gardening: help with summer squash, 1 by Farmerdill

Farmerdill wrote:
not sure pinching the blossoms wiil help. If the plant can't support them they will abort anyway. The real question is why are your plants so stunted. Did you start them inside and transplant? If so they could have gotten stunted in the pots. Is your soil loose and fertile? If not you will need to amend and fertilize. You have plenty of time for direct succession plantings, so I would suggest that you stick a few seeds into a loose amended and fertilized plot for insurance, in case yours do not grow out of thier funk,

They should be about this size when they begin blooming.