Winter Squash

[grenhouse]

Hi all,

Some fantastic people on here and other forums have been swapping squash seeds with me this year. I now have a great little collection and more room on the lottie for planting them!

I wondered if anyone had grown any of these before and could tell me the type of plant (e.g. bushy or trailing as i would like to train some upwards!), and also the type of yield you got from them. Appreciated as always!

Cobnut
Uchiki Kuri
Chicago warted hubbard
Table ace
Crown prince
Kabocha
Turks turban
Golden nugget
Spaghetti
Bon Bon
Hooligan

Steve

[Two_Sheds]

I haven't time to do them all for you (perhaps you could google each variety?)

Hooligan is a great little sprawling pumpkin, perfect for training up a structure

BonBon and Crown Prince are huge fruits, very heavy

[grenhouse]

Cheers for that two sheds. I have googled them all however it doesn't give you too much info, and it's always good to see how others have done with them! Thanks for the reply thats great.

Steve

[ginger ninger]

I trained the Red Kuri up and over an arch last year. I had 6 x 6 to 7 lb fruits of it. The warred Hubbard is too heavy to train up and over anything...it'll bring the structure down.

[Hans Mum]

Crown Prince fantastic for storing, i've still got 1 left - its a trailer

Golden Nugget compact bushy plant got 6-8 fruits on each plant

i'll be growing both again this year

hope that helps

[dave_norm_smith]

Hi

I too have a bundle of squash and pumpkin to sow but the offer of a large garden space has not materialized in order to grow them all. I have a further option of a friend who owns a farm and would probably lend me an area to grow them, however there will be rabbits around. Will they eat pumpkin, they seem to eat everything else?

Dave

[LolaLou]

Hello - I had the same problem when I was looking at what squashes to grow, they seem to leave off the 'trailing' or 'bush' notes from all squash packets! This is what I've found:

Cobnut - bigger and more productive than any 'butternut' I've grown - trailer - about 4 large fruits per plant - good storage
Uchiki Kuri - trailer - 3-4 fruits per plant - medium storage
Chicago warted hubbard - growing this year for first time too......(its a trailer)
Table ace - ?
Crown prince - trailer - 3-4 huge fruits per plant (if they don't look particularly 'as big' in size as you expect, pick one of the oogies up, they are full of lovely thick flesh and heavy!) - excellent storer - I still have one left from last year
Kabocha - think this is very similar to Uchiki Kuri from what I can make out
Turks turban - ?
Golden nugget - growing this year for first time too......(but Hans Mum says its a bush)
Spaghetti - ?
Bon Bon - as per TwoSheds comment
Hooligan - as per TwoSheds comment

I don't think I have the most prolific return per plant compared to some people but I am a bit of a 'put them in and let nature do her best' sort of gardener

Good luck!

[Pies]

cobnut gives a bigger squash than most butternuts i got 5 of one plant all about the size in the picture

Uchiki Kuri as in the picture i got eight of one plant

both are trailing habbit and ive found the best way (for me) is to stop them when the leading arms are about 4ft long,this forced the plant to send more arms out and gives you a smaller plant but more crop

The third pic shows my cobnut and uchiki kuri in a bed,for reference the bed is 8ftlong and 4ft wide and i allowed it to grow a bit into the path

table ace, lots of smaller fruits is not so spralling as the other two a semibush type stores for ages

hope that helps

[realfood]

The only bush one on your list is Golden Nugget.

[vicky]

Turks turban is a thuggish trailer!

[grenhouse]

Much appreciated ladies and gents! That really does help, a few of them are thanks to you Pie and Ginger niger so cheers for that!

Think I am going to go with ginger's red kuri up the frame. Well I will post the (hopefull) fruits of my labour up in a few months time!

Thanks once again

Steve

[salilah]

I did a red kuri (I think - Potimarron?) - it went for miles! Only got one fruit finally, the rest started then rotted... Will try the trick of stopping the leading edge - thanks!
S

[Jono]

My Crown Princes store for ages. I've still got a couple left. They're really tasty - the flesh is almost nutty.

Get yourself a decent veg peeler though, it makes life much easier when the skins get tough.

[realfood]

The easy way to prepare Winter Squash is to cut them into segments, scoop out the seeds, and cook them with the skins on, either by microwave or bake. Then it is easy to scoop out the cooked flesh from the skin with a spoon.