Butternut squash
by Diane - November 23rd, 2014.Filed under: Suttons Seeds.
I grew some this year from seed. They produced quite a few fruits that ripened fully and a few that didn’t.
As you can see they didn’t really have any seeds in – not a problem, they were a F1 variety anyway that wouldn’t come true from saved seeds.
I turned these into soup after roasting them in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Suttons have two types available as seeds:
Squash Seeds – F1 Hunter £3.99
An early ripening butternut variety providing a very heavy crop throughout late summer and autumn. Fruit are a lovely buff colour, with fine-flavoured orange flesh, and store well. Average fruit weight 800g – 1Kg. Trailing type, but shorter than American bred varieties
Squash Seeds – F1 Butterpie £2.99
Bred for the UK climate. A unique British bred butternut squash. Very easy to grow, producing good crops of attractive, acorn-shaped fruit with straw-coloured skin. Simply cut the fruit into convenient ‘pie’ wedges and roast! – no more difficult necky and bulbous shaped fruits to negotiate! Butterpie will easily set around four 1.5-2kg fruits per semi trailing plant.
Suttons also have gratef plants:
Commercially the grafting method has been used for some time, but we’ve developed them for the home gardener, and early adopters have had extraordinary results: Big increases in yield from larger, more vigorous plants Earlier cropping, yet with sufficient vigour to crop well later in the season Grow in the greenhouse or outdoors – little or no heating required –
Squash Grafted Plants – Hunter £4.99