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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Amazingrotavator(Derby) on September 16, 2014, 09:31:11

Title: Squashes
Post by: Amazingrotavator(Derby) on September 16, 2014, 09:31:11

Just a quick question for you knowledgable people. My butternut squashes are nearly the size of marrows and are still green. Will they ripen if I took them off the plant? Thank you folks.

Title: Re: Squashes
Post by: tricia on September 16, 2014, 10:54:29

What variety is it? 'Barbara' stays green. I would leave them on the vines till the foliage has died back in any case.

Tricia

Title: Re: Squashes
Post by: Amazingrotavator(Derby) on September 16, 2014, 11:34:51

Thanks Tricia, will leave them on for now.

Title: Re: Squashes
Post by: Digeroo on September 16, 2014, 11:54:19

I have managed in the past to have good results ripening them on the windowsill, but there are still several frost free weeks to come hopefully.

Butternuts are normally brown from early on, so if they are green I also suggest a green variety.  Lunga di Napoli is also green.   They are orange inside.