If it looks healthy and growing good, I'd give it a little fertilizer boost and let it go...

yes! i find they have a use by date most plants do it is mostly seasonal driven, generally once they reach the end of their production season they begin to flagg and can develop powdery mildue, but whilst ever they produce good fruit i pick it untill then.

len

Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page

So far, it looks incredibly healthy. It's bright green, no dead leaves, no SVB (knock on wood), but it just seems to either want a break or has cried "uncle."

I'll try the fertilizer and give it a week or two before deciding what to do with it. It would be nice if it produced again, but MAN! I got a ton off of it.

It's been so long since a zuke of mine lived past July thanks to SVB, but here in my zone I vaguely remember getting fruit until the nights got cool in september a time or two

susanden, don't I know it!!! Last year I didn't get my plants in the ground for one reason or another until June. BIG MISTAKE as the Squash bugs and SVB come out here (GA) in June. I honestly couldn't kill them fast enough. They kept multiplying and the SVB didn't stop at the stems, they dug straight into the fruit. I got one, count them, one, zucchini out of four plants last year (yes, I'm bitter). This year, I bit the bullet and started super early and just babied them through the last few frosts and got an amazing turn around (knock on wood). Did you happen to see the picture of the unpollinated monster, at least in my experience, zucchini in my earlier link? I pulled it before it opened because, well, quite frankly, it scared me. It was like some side show at Coney Island. I've seen large pollinated ones, but again, this one had yet to flower.

Take all of this with a grain of salt. Keep in mind that I said I only got one zucchini last year so I'm in hog heaven. I've got zucchini in the fridge, zucchini in the freezer and zucchini in my belly. What could make anyone happier?