Squashkin

[Froglegs]

2009 Catalogue from Marshalls as jus droped on the mat,Squashkin sounds a bit of allright will give that a bash.

[Froglegs]

[saddad]

Just been drooling over seeds of distinction catalogue... so many squash, so little summer!  ;D

[Froglegs]

 ;D ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

Froglegs............I was thinking the same! ;D

[Froglegs]

Great minds think alike D_P. ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

Have ordered mine!
Oh and the outdoor melon and some garlic and.................................well you can't just order 1 item from a seed catalogue can you! ;D

[Froglegs]

How did you get on with Squashkin D_P ?, mine did bugger all  :( not one pumpkin,only two seeds actually germinated and they give up the ghost before they even flowered  :'( they are not in the 2010 catalogue so I'm thinking I'm not the only one to fail.

[Doris_Pinks]

FL   Mine never made it either....keeeled over, they didn't even make it to teh plot! Tried with the last seed that I had....same thing!

[realfood]

My Squashkin did very well, considering how wet it was here in Glasgow. Three plants from 3 seeds and set fruit a month before Butternuts. Incredibly sweet flesh.

[Froglegs]

Well done you.Would ya grow them again. ???

[realfood]

Yes, I will grow them again. Just cooked one tonight in the microwave and would describe the taste as like diluted honey. The flesh is softer than a butternut and more like crown prince.
Marshalls phoned me up the other week to ask how I got on with them. Apparently, some people had problems with germination, but using a heated propagator for all my squashes I had 100% germination.
Squashkin is a considerable advance over butternuts for the North of the UK.

[realfood]

The Marshalls 2010 catalogue came today, and I see that there is no squashkin in it :( I must assume that either it did not sell enough or it has not done well with the customers this year.

[phlips66]

just looking at kings seeds can get a really good discount with my allotment assocation
squashkin sounds interesting would not mind giving them a go (if i can get them somewhere)

[chriscross1966]

I'd suggest Winter Festival if you have trouble with butternuts. The plants aren't too exploratory and they set good crops of fruit about he size of a big grapefruit, and they are at least a month earlier than my butternuts

chrisc

[GrannieAnnie]

You folks get your catalogues early- ours don't come until Dec or Jan,. why I don't know.

[Multiveg]

Perhaps their harvest failed so not included in catalogue.

[mollycox]

Just delurking to say I bought two packets of squashkin from Marshalls, germinated about ten plants, grew them in my polytunnel, got a huge number of fruits but they mostly had no flesh - the young ones I picked were all thin watery looking pith and those I left to ripen were mostly seeds and thick skin with a tiny layer of not very interesting flesh. Maybe they didn't like the polytunnel.

[realfood]

All the Winter Squashes are best left to get fully mature before eating. I am at a loss to understand why you did not have a super crop as mine did so well. I hear a whisper that Marshalls may have the seed again some time in the New Year.

[campanula]

Do NOT be seduced by PofD's glossy catalogue - I have had the very worst germination from this company for the last 4 years - yes, I am a fool as I keep living in hope - this years disaster, Red Kuri - not one! also, their flowers are equally duff. I have finally learned my lesson to avoid PofD like plague - but only after 16 or so failures.......and I have never, ever had similar failures with any other company.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've had plenty of failures, flowers rather than veg, and plenty of successes. I haven't grown so many of their veg, but I've had no complaint about the ones I have tried.