I've had a pretty poor success rate with my Butternut squash and I am looking at a sad and lonely 3 plants!
Has anyone come across any variety packs that I could get - possibly by mail order (I know I'm leaving this a little late!) what I'm after is a couple each of 3 or 4 varieties. Ive searched the major suppliers but cant find any.
Try the seed swap page on this website, everyone is very generous and has helped me with a couple of requests - worth a try! ;)
glow, i have a few seeds if you want some - hubbard squash, vegetable spaghetti, buttercup (the best!) and i cant remember what else. just two seeds or so from each i am afraid, but that should help?
PM me if you want to take me up on this offer
All my pumpkin seeds have germinated now and it is a pity you don't live nearer, glow, as I have 6 butternuts up and you could have had a couple of those. I would be very happy to send you some of my surplus seeds though which would include butternut, Queensland Blue (I got from DPinks) and last years which look like Jack O Lanterns and a big one called Mammoth. Just let me know via my pm. busy_lizzie
Hi Glow,
I planted 10 Butternut Sprinter seeds 10 days ago and have 100% germination rate.
I've got a couple left over if you want, then PM me your address and they'll be in the next post!
I've had really good germination on squashes this year - even ones I thought weren't happening came through eventually - have some to spare of several varieties if you pm me your address.
Have got: True green hubbard, Early golden hubbard, Burgess buttercup
Small flat cheese, nad Waltham butternut.
I have some nice squash seeds, depending what sort you're after (thumpers? little fat ones?) If you haven't already been overwhelmed with seeds, just pm me and let me know so I can have a rootle ;D
Thanks to all who replied I'm pretty sure I've got plenty now.
Thanks again
Glo
Also Vivaverde do a mixed pack of winter squash seed. 12 seeds for £1.90. Looks a bit of a lucky dip.
glow>> you've got oodles of time before you sow...they don't go out till 2nd week of june!!!
2nd week in June? - what the heck do I do with them till then?
I sowed mine in the greenhouse, and I have a dozen fat, 10" high plants! I was going to plant them out this weekend. Not a good idea?
JeremyB
frost will kill them, last recorded frost here last year was june 16th. i lost 2 batches of marigolds then! you could try putting them out under fleece, or be prepared to sow again.
Done well on pumpkins this year (again) and poorly on squash, I think I will get a variety pack for next year purely for the delight of all the different types of squash that will appear.
fb are you sure about the June 16th frost?
Were not far from you and a little higher and everyone states that there hasnt been a frost after June 12th for the last 30 years
Glow
Somebody's Law, I forget exactly whose, says if you put them out it will! Many people on our allotments got hit mid may and lost all their squash and corn, we were running behind and so hadn't put them out!
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glow>> i noted the date in my diary. but for 4 days who's arguing? ;)
That's Sod's Law. Last year was difficult, with frost in mid-June; it's unusual, but you can't promise this early. I did notice my lilac starting to come into bloom the other day, and they're not supposed to come out till the last frost is past. I don't trust it as a guide though. I can't remember when it came out last year, but I bet it was before mid-June!
It was definitely out here before that last frost, last year! I prefer to trust my Black Mulberry which is always my last fruit tree to leaf, and the first to drop them. Even then you can get a frost when it has got leaves, like last year! Probably just a ground frost that won't mess up the tree but will get small plants at ground level!
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-3 degrees predicted for sunday morning here in the high peak....watch out Glow
Quote from: fbgrifter on May 05, 2006, 08:31:13
glow>> you've got oodles of time before you sow...they don't go out till 2nd week of june!!!
oh gawd! 3no. planted out yesterday evening - it was so sunny, of
course the frosts had passed! Oh well, lets see what happens!
My squashes are all in pots, under cloches. That's where they're staying for the next three or four weeks.
Quote from: fbgrifter on May 12, 2006, 12:58:43
-3 degrees predicted for sunday morning here in the high peak....watch out Glow
where do you get your weather info fb - I saw a zero predicted for Saturday night a couple of days ago but then it just dissapeared. Mind you everythings in my greenhouse or cold frame except for a couple of throwaway lettuce