I think the zucchini is dying.

[fluffy_goddess]

I convinced my Mom to put a zucchini plant in the garden this year, and it's been... interesting.  It took a while to get going (the first half dozen zucchini got about 3-4 inches long and as thick around as my finger, then fell off and died), but it's produced three or four good-sized zucchini, and one that we picked because it was getting bigger

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[heinleinfan]

If you see no signs of it being bugs, do the leaves get a "dusty" looking kind of white stuff on them before going yellow? Here in CoSprings *all* the cucurbits we have suffer from Powdery Mildew. (It's not actually mildew, it's an airborne fungus). The leaves will look kind of white for a while, usually starting in the center of the leaves, and then spreading out to cover most of the leaf surface, but still healthy and producing, then before you can blink the plant will be dead. It's virtually impossible to get rid of the spores (especially since we garden in a community garden) and so we just expect our cucurbits will die off at the end of each season, long before the cold would actually kill them, so we try to get as much production out of them before then as we can