Squash question

[Somersetveggie]

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 .

[Suky]

I can't answer this but it may help those in the know if you tell us the variety.

[Jeanied]

I wait until the stem starts to die back before harvesting - and I eat the split ones first!

[Two_Sheds]

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

[binley100]

I've done better this year then last but my runners were rubbish .........can't win them all

[Paulottie]

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

[Somersetveggie]

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 .

[vegnut]

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.