Butternut Squash germinatated

Today a week ago dryed the seeds of a butternut squash I had made a pot of soup with.

Planted them on Monday.

And noticed this afternoon that they have germinated.

 

Wel done Sotkat,never grown them myself but if they are anything like pumpkins the seed leaves will be very large :D

Good luck with growing them and do let us know how you get on

 

Oh and let us have the soup recipe please. I have a friend who grows them and gives them to us and we never know what to do with them

 

Here is recipe John

Butternutsquash and sweet potato and corriander soup.

First sweat sliced chopped onion in olive oil,added chopped b/squash and sweet potato and sweat till soft add 2pts of stock add fresh corriander season with paprica and salt and .

Cook all when soft put in blender to liquidise then serve with fresh corriander on top and crusty bread.

Enjoy very tasty.

Will be making it again tomorrow.

 

I must try that. I love butternut! I also love gem squash with loads of butter but I don't think that you can buy them here :( (Let me know if you know otherwise)

 

Thanks Kat. Sounds wonderful. Rather more interesting than a tin of Heinz tomato. :D

 

Hi All

Just wondering which type would be best to grow, a friend of mine has allowed me to use a part of his allotment so I will have room to grow Squash up there.

Dave

 

Hi All!
If this is your first time growing squashes etc, I hope you have acres of room, as "only" one plant is capable if left unchecked to taking over the average allotment on it's own; almost!

Also don't waste time and effort on saving your own seed, (especially melons!) I have tried it and it did not work for me!

Again these are very tender plants, they stand no frost at all, so it would be the end of May before it would be safe to plant outside in most of the UK.

TRY,(sing something simple!)

 

Took my butternut squash out of propagator and as you can see on kitchen window sill.

 

looks great Scotkat

 

Kathy quick in germinating wether they fruit for us not so sure.

 

i think i will try one

 

Very tasty.

 

Looking good, ScotKat, but they need pricking into individual pots before they get too big.