Storing Squashes

[CarolineSonning]

Well I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself having just been and collected 11 butternut squashes from 4 plants that I originally found as seedlings in my compost heap . Note to self order squash seeds for next year as they seem to like it here .

So the question now is how do I store them?

[Alice]

Hi Caroline, I just keep them in the back kitchen (utility room) where it's reasonably cool. They keep for months and we've eaten them by them. I wonder what other people do.

[25cowlane]

We have around 18 or so in storage at the moment, all we did was to wipe off any mudiness, got a couple in the fridge and the rest are in the garden shed on an old veg basket rack/shelf thing, this should keep them nice and aired and cool/cold so hopefully should last for quite a few months.

[pigletwillie]

As above but dont keep them on a tiled surface as condensation can form causing them to rot. I store mine as above but on wooden shelves and they last for months.

[CarolineSonning]

Brilliant, many thanks for all the responses.

[FoxHillGardener]

11! 18! Wow, makes my one that I was so proud of seem a bit pathetic. At least I don't have to worry about storage problems.