Sowing Squash now?? Anyone tried?

[glosterwomble]

I sowed some butternut squash earlier in the year and out of about 10 plants I'm down to one!! I'm very tempted to buy some more seed and have a go at sowing some more now but I realise that it is late in the year to do that.

Has anyone else ever sown squash this late with success and produced a crop?

[glosterwomble]

[redimp]

ping :)

[debster]

i sowed some a couple of weeks ago the veegee or whatever it was called the winter saving one the weather is a little confused and so long as you wouldnt mind losing the seeds as the worse scenario what have you got to lose only thing i can think is that the fruits may not grow as big as they would have if sown earlier

[Jeannine]

My advice now is simply no.. not now,especially the winter ones that need a long season, there isn't time left in the year to bring a seed to fruition unless you are in a very dry, warm sheltered part of the UK, and bear in mind that even with that the weather would have to be continuously like that to the end  of the season to stand a chance.

The average  summer squash needs  55 days from transplanting a healthy strong plant, and the average winter one about 85 days. If you do your maths,  3 weeks to get a seed planted today to transplant size, a few days to harden off and you are in to September, even woth ideal conditions it would be November before they were mature, and the weather and damp will not be with you.

XX Jeannine