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Countdown to overnight 4 degrees, will butternut squash make it?

ObsessedPlantswomanObsessedPlantswoman Posts: 69
in Fruit & veg
So close, lovely size but green still… with temperatures dropping to single digits on Thursday, what should I do with the butternut squash?
I have never grown them before, and even with an early greenhouse start in March, I can’t see how anyone gets these to ripen in the uk?

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  • scrogginscroggin Posts: 437
    What part of the country are you? In the south east I don't sow mine until early May, in most years they're ripe by the end of September. I picked all of mine a couple of weeks ago. 
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    All picked and eaten here .... and I'm in south Scotland.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I have a  bumper harvest here in London.  
    Grown on open ground and trailed over black ground sheet to suppress weeds.

    AB Still learning

  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    Mine went in late and I have two that are still green as well. I'm just going to leave them but you can fleece over the top or cover them and then uncover when the weather is warmer.

    I did hear someone, think it was Charles Dowding but it might not have been, that said they don't bother to grow butternut squash here in the uk as they aren't reliable enough/weather isnt always great for them. I must admit all my other squash ripened far earlier including the more exotic ones.   
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