Why have my Butternut squashes Green ?? Someone gave me the seed were they not the correct ones?? Havent tried cooking them yet is there a big difference on taste ? Thank you all
Lady Butternut it is my first year growing them so any advice brill x
Thankyou Italophile ... They are quite big some of them. Do I have to do anything to make them ripen ... Ive taken some leaves away like my pumpkins so the sun can see them.
Ging, some of the acorn-shaped winter squashes stay green even when ripe - but taste exactly the same as the classic butternut shaped ones. If they are butternut-shaped then they're not yet ripe as Italophile says. Unless they're from saved seed in which case all bets are off - not sure what colour or shape an acorn/butternut cross would likely be!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Thank you Bob I have an idea they were saved seeds ...They are butternut shape but a very dark green colour .... I will keep fingers cross they change ... x
Looks like I'll have to be patient then. Just got the one fruit now but masses of, presumably, male flowers. Fingers crossed then. My 4 plants are in a greeenhouse this
Mine have not had the flowers and the fruit in abundance this year .I think it is the August weather that has done it plenty of rain and cold with it and a lack of sunshine when we had needed it.I noticed less insects too.
Lady B was asking about high potash feed. Ash from burning young shoots (such as raspberry canes and other fruit prunings) is good.
Comfrey is a must in any organic garden - cut the whole plant down 6" above the ground when the flowers are about to open, chop 'em up coarsely with a spade and either bury them under the spuds/squashes/tomatoes or soak them in water for a few weeks till they smell disgusting. Strain the resulting 'tea' (more like raw sewage if you ask me) and dilute it 1:10 as a high potash feed. You should get at least two cuts in a season once the plants are established and they spread like mad.
You can do exactly the same with nettles to make a high nitrogen feed. It smells just as bad.
i have grown butternuts for the first time this year and have five fruits, not brilliant but next year i will make sure they are pollinated I grew one plant in the greenhouse and used comfrey feed
I have used a wormery i had given to make the food, just filled each layer with chopped up leaves and put a bottle under the open tap to collect the feed, no smell at all they just dissolved into a slimey mess and i kept adding more
I posted these pictures on a thread asking about germination earlier in the year, as you all have a great deal of knowledge can you tel me is better to let the plant grow along the ground or would it be a good ideato give it some support and let it grow upward
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Why have my Butternut squashes Green ?? Someone gave me the seed were they not the correct ones?? Havent tried cooking them yet is there a big difference on taste ? Thank you all
Lady Butternut it is my first year growing them so any advice brill x
If they're still green they haven't ripened yet.
Thankyou Italophile ... They are quite big some of them. Do I have to do anything to make them ripen ... Ive taken some leaves away like my pumpkins so the sun can see them.
Ging, some of the acorn-shaped winter squashes stay green even when ripe - but taste exactly the same as the classic butternut shaped ones. If they are butternut-shaped then they're not yet ripe as Italophile says. Unless they're from saved seed in which case all bets are off - not sure what colour or shape an acorn/butternut cross would likely be!
Thank you Bob I have an idea they were saved seeds ...They are butternut shape but a very dark green colour .... I will keep fingers cross they change ... x
Looks like I'll have to be patient then. Just got the one fruit now but masses of, presumably, male flowers. Fingers crossed then. My 4 plants are in a greeenhouse this
Mine have not had the flowers and the fruit in abundance this year .I think it is the August weather that has done it plenty of rain and cold with it and a lack of sunshine when we had needed it.I noticed less insects too.
Lady B was asking about high potash feed. Ash from burning young shoots (such as raspberry canes and other fruit prunings) is good.
Comfrey is a must in any organic garden - cut the whole plant down 6" above the ground when the flowers are about to open, chop 'em up coarsely with a spade and either bury them under the spuds/squashes/tomatoes or soak them in water for a few weeks till they smell disgusting. Strain the resulting 'tea' (more like raw sewage if you ask me) and dilute it 1:10 as a high potash feed. You should get at least two cuts in a season once the plants are established and they spread like mad.
You can do exactly the same with nettles to make a high nitrogen feed. It smells just as bad.
i have grown butternuts for the first time this year and have five fruits, not brilliant but next year i will make sure they are pollinated I grew one plant in the greenhouse and used comfrey feed
I have used a wormery i had given to make the food, just filled each layer with chopped up leaves and put a bottle under the open tap to collect the feed, no smell at all they just dissolved into a slimey mess and i kept adding more
I posted these pictures on a thread asking about germination earlier in the year, as you all have a great deal of knowledge can you tel me is better to let the plant grow along the ground or would it be a good ideato give it some support and let it grow upward
any other pointers would be good thank you