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    Squash question

    This will seem maybe a dumb question but this is my first attempt to harvest a butternut squash (no sucess last year, the squashes all split before I could harvest them), does it change to the 'butternut' colour on the plant or should I pick it now and harden it off so it turns to the butternut colour as it it quite big but still green? Thanks .
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    I can't answer this but it may help those in the know if you tell us the variety.

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    • #3
      I wait until the stem starts to die back before harvesting - and I eat the split ones first!
      Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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      • #4
        If it's green it's not ripe: it should become that buttery colour on the vine. It's been a bad year for them: none of mine are ripe either
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          I've done better this year then last but my runners were rubbish .........can't win them all
          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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          • #6
            If you want to store them, then the longer they stay on the better....no chance of heavy frosts in Somerset yet.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Suky View Post
              I can't answer this but it may help those in the know if you tell us the variety.
              It's a 'Hunter' butternut squash, seems then that I should leave it .

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              • #8
                Mine are still on the vine. Although i have taken some small ones off that ripened up. A bit of a mix this year though, some small and some big ones.
                All edible though.
                "He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"

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