Butternut Squash Seed

Butternut Squash Seed (Cucurbita moschata) 10 seeds

Butternut squash, also called Noix de Beurre or Doubeurre squash, is a late and running variety. It produces 4 to 7 fruits per plant, 8 to 12 cm in diameter for the cylindrical part, 10 to 14 cm for the swollen part and 15 to 25 cm high, the weight varies between 1.5 and 3 kg.
The flesh of the Butternut squash is yellow to orange-yellow, fine, buttery and melting like avocado. Its delicious musky taste will be perfect for making veloupés, gratins, soufflés, fries, purees, pies, jams but also raw grated.

Sowing: in April, in pots in a bright place (temperature 12°C minimum, the seeds need heat to germinate), place the seeds on the edge. Be careful with watering, you will need to keep the soil moist with a sprayer but not excessively so as not to rot the seed. Place your pots near a light source.

Transplant in a sunny location in mid-May at 1 m in all directions for non-running varieties and 1.20 m on the rows and 2 m between rows for running varieties. Watering. Addition of compost recommended.
Pinch the stems to stimulate development.
Hoe and weed. Mulch the base to limit the development of weeds and preserve humidity. Water at the base in summer without wetting the foliage.

Avoid placing it next to potatoes. On the other hand, it will appreciate the proximity of beans and cabbage.

The harvest generally takes place between September and November.
One of the best ways to know when to harvest your squash is to observe the stalk, which becomes corky when the fruit is ready. Be careful, never grab the squash by this famous stalk because this would cause invisible lesions, which inevitably cause rotting. The fruit must be cut as close as possible to the stem, left to dry for a day in the sun, then brought in to a warm place, without knocking them of course, in a dry and ventilated place: between 12 and 20°C. For small quantities, the top of a cupboard or closet in the house is ideal.

Reproducible seeds harvested exclusively in the Pot'à'Jo garden, a horticultural and permaculture market garden of 1500m². Everything is cultivated there with deep respect for nature and their inhabitants. I have been growing my own seeds from seed to seed for years.