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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: caroline7758 on August 08, 2008, 18:01:52

Title: Butternut squash
Post by: caroline7758 on August 08, 2008, 18:01:52
What colour and shape do these start off? I've got pumpkins and squash on the same patch and I'm not sure whether any of the fruit are squash!

Also, can I pick and use small jack-o-lantern pumpkins or will they not be ripe?
Title: Re: Butternut squash
Post by: sarah on August 08, 2008, 18:06:50
baby butternuts look like baby butternuts and are green, they remind me of little lightbulbs. you cant fail to recognise them really.  mind you i havent grown a lot of other squashes at the same time.
Title: Re: Butternut squash
Post by: caroline7758 on August 08, 2008, 18:09:48
Thanks- don't think I've got any in that case. :(
Title: Re: Butternut squash
Post by: Jeannine on August 08, 2008, 22:03:48
Caroline you can use immature squash and pumpkins like courgettes, they don't have the dry sweet flesh but are fine, we always use the tiny ones that we pull up with the mature ones at harvest time. XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Butternut squash
Post by: Suzanne on August 09, 2008, 01:50:21
Piccy of butternut squash
Title: Re: Butternut squash
Post by: shirlton on August 09, 2008, 07:28:41
aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh bless em!
Title: Re: Butternut squash
Post by: caroline7758 on August 09, 2008, 10:17:23
Now I think about it, that;'s probably what the well-chewed thing I found yesterday was! Guess the slugs find them tastier than pumpkins and courgettes.