How to Grow Butternuts, Pumpkins, and Any Other Winter Squash | A Complete Guide 

Thank you for sharing this…very interesting… especially the taste part. Yum

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Not just for home growers, but farmers can apply this as well: with just a few of their plants out in the field to save enough seed for the next season.

Thank you for the advice ❤❤

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Yep that's what I've been doing i have a acer plot but 1/2 is house and driveway and garage so I only have a 100 ft by 60ft fenced in area and another maybe 1000 square ft ( in smaller plots and on steep 35% hills but I plant everything on top on eachother, companion plant and for the seeds next year i do exactly what you suggest

This contradicts the hot fertilizer theory, maybe?

@@mimi27513 It's hard to say how much fertilizer they got in the old pig pen - I think the soil there has a lot of buried manure tho it gets compacted so much that most plants struggle to grow in it. I didn't water, weed, or mulch those plants, tho, because I didn't notice them for the first month or so. It kind of blew most of my ideas of how to care for squash but I'm not sure how to replicate it on purpose.

@@renatehaeckler9843 I was half joking- thanks for the reply, all the same :-). All kinds of things sprout in my compost until it heats up enough. Happy growing!!

The first time I read this I thought some of your pigs didn't ripen before frost! My best squash grows just outside my chicken run, and provides shade for the chickens.

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Growing kakai pumpkins for the pepitas myself this year❤ excited 😊

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A couple years ago I grew a few butternut and a few acorn plants in the same garden. I grew some of the seeds I kept the following year but it didn't yeild anything.

Pill bugs decimated my baby butternuts😢

Where do you live/zone?

DS all day! transplanting sets the plants back reduces yield and takes up space and valuable time seeding them in the GH.

I grew the white scallops small town mid USA, and the only people who bought them put them next to their pumpkins on the front porch. Here, bush beans better be green, peppers green or red, the list goes on....

@@scottbaruth9041 Those scallops are crazy cool! I definitely understand why you grew them. Shame they weren't easily appreciated.

Thanks much I was wondering I’m a newbie

Same

Do you soak your seed to sprout? Esp if you have rodent issues?

@@sundanceharvest4069 I plant 4 seeds every 18in (1 for me, 1 for the bugs, 1 for the rodents and 1 for good luck) and thin later by clipping them at ground level if needed.

I have no issues with DS. We did it for years until we started following the garlic. Weeds and rodents are the biggest challenges. Would definitely prime the seed. If you do your transplants right there shouldn’t be any shock, though. That’s all about greenhouse management and keeping the blocks separate.

@@notillgrowers Yeah on a smaller scale makes a lot of sense but I am currently managing a CSA farm that grows LOTS of winter squash. I'll be planting 20 200ft rows this season..! And our GH space is quite limited here so I am forced to DS. But just last year my first year here I was a bit skeptical and wanted to do side by side comparison and the DS seed just did so much better then TP. In the past Iʼve always transplanted Winter Squash but I was on a much smaller scale then. Like when I managed at Frith or ran my own small scale csa in Maine. Now managing a bit of a larger scale operation (with limited help!) I am forced to grow those staple but not so profitable crops like Winter Squash and Potatoes. Which doesnʼt matter because the members come together and meet the farms budget which opens up that space for those crops to be grown. You would be quite interested in this farm and its csa model. Very different. The farm puts out a budget and has a pledge meeting each year to meet the yearly budget. It's pretty cool. Supposedly the first CSA in the US. It's called the Temple-Wilton Community Farm. Its a biodynamic farm and It's got a dairy, creamery and vegetable operation on site working as one. This is my second year here and I am bringing a lot of my no till knowledge here to save the soil.. The elder farmer really did a lot of damage to the soil constantly tilling. With limited help (only 2 apprentices and me managing between 3 or 4 acres) I am forced to use a tractor for broad forking, shaping beds and cultivating. The previous farmer was doing about 5 acres but doing things intensively Iʼve been able to shrink down the area we grow on.

yes true , if cut too short it can start to rot around stem .. bought one like this and it happened !

I never had a problem with them when I lived in Michigan. But down here in FL! Ugh! I am ready. We made a large hoop structure out of emt pipe and have the white fine bug cover. Gonna give it a go with Tahitian melon squash (looks like a huge butternut). probably plant them end of Feb. seminoles did great down here. And they were good. And did store fine for a good year.

I’m growing a Brazilian pumpkin this year up the the U.S., Moranga Coroa! Supposed to be very pest resistant.

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Amazing! Thank you!