Cucurbita maxima 'Crown Prince'

Pumpkin Squash 'Crown Prince'

Squashes are used as vegetables, but are, strictly speaking , fruit. They come in many forms - and there are Summer varieties as well as Winter varieties. Most squashes grow on vines, but a few in a shrubby form. They are all relatively easy to grow. 'Crown Prince' has a steel-blue skin, orange flesh, and a sweet nutty flavour. The fruits, which are slightly flattened round in shape, weigh up to 4kgs. each, and will keep for up to 3 months if stored in dry, frost-free conditions.

plant Features

Full sun
Frequent watering
Not Frost hardy
Moist and fertile

plant information

Common name

Pumpkin Squash 'Crown Prince'

Latin name

Cucurbita maxima 'Crown Prince'

type

Vegetable

family

Cucurbitaceae

ph

5.5 - 6.8 Acid - Neutral

Light

Full sun
Frost

Not Frost hardy

Soil

Moist and fertile
Water

Frequent watering

Plant & bloom calendar

Best time to plant
When to harvest

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Pumpkin Squash Crown Prince is 2.00meters x 0.35meters

2.00 M 0.35 M

Cucurbita maxima 'Crown Prince'

Propagating by seed

From Early Spring TO Late Spring

Prepare a bed or hill in a sunny site where the soil is fertile. Make planting pockets 3' apart by digging a hole a spade-depth, width and height, and filling with compost and well-rotted manure, then sow a seed on edge in each pocket. at a depth of about 1" after all danger of frost has passed.. Or sow the seeds singly in pots in the greenhouse, and plant out after they have their first true leaves

Planting

From Mid Spring TO Early Summer

After seeds grown indoors have their first true leaves, and after all danger of frost has passed, plant the seedlings out into a prepared bed or hill that has been well-manured, at a spacing of about 3' for bush types, and 5' for trailing types.

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