Cucurbita Moschata

Butternut Squash

Butternut Squash is, in fact, a fruit (as it contains seeds) but is used as a vegetable. It has a nutty, sweet taste. The skin is brownish-yellow, and the flesh is orange. Butternut Squash grows on a vine

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plant Features

Full sun
Frequent watering
Not Frost hardy
Moist and fertile

plant information

Common name

Butternut Squash

Latin name

Cucurbita Moschata

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 Butternut Squash is 2.00meters x 0.20meters

2.00 M 0.20 M

Cucurbita Moschata

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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