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Squash Seeds

Squashes and pumpkins are used very widely in many parts of Europe as well as Africa, America the Caribbean and Australia but have never really been picked up in the UK but they offer so very many options in cooking and are a very good source of beta carotene which the human body converts to vitamin A.

We all know courgettes and marrows but there is so much more to squahes than just these varieties. The winter varieties have a very good taste (some say better than the summer varieties of squash) and keep well if stored over the winter. Squash seeds should not be sown too early as they do not like cold weather so make sure you do not sow your squash until the very last of the frosts are over and the nights have warmed. May is not too late and neither is June so sow them under cover as pop them outside once they have a decent bit of body to them so that the slugs can't have a fatal effect on them.

Once they start to grow, THEY WILL GROW. You want to give each plant a good couple of meters of plot so that they can grow without getting in the way of the rest of your plot. They like draining soil which is good and healthy as well as plenty of water once they start to form their fruit. You must be hard with them. The more fruits on each plant them the smaller they will grow so be hard and remove some of the smaller fruits to ensure the more healthy ones survive and flourish.

Harvesting is normally during October and November when the temperature really starts to drop and remember to cut a few inches of stem with each fruit as this will stop rotting.

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Bottle Gourd - Decorative
Bottle Gourd - Decorative
Squash Gourd is only for decorative use and is also known as the Bottle Squash. Grow and dry to use for bottles, pots or decoration - just as the tradition.
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£1.00

Cabello de Angel
Cabello de Angel
Beautiful squash with speckled skin and white flesh. In the centre is a stringy membrane that the Spanish like to sweeten and use as a pastry filling called Angel Hair.
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£2.25

da Pergola
da Pergola
This wonderful Italian squash produces tasty elongated cylindrical fruits of light-green colour, extra tasty when young. Very popular in Indian cooking.
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£1.35

Delica Squash - Fumiko F1
Delica Squash - Fumiko F1
A type of Japanese squash or Kabocha, this Delica type is Fumiko F1 with exceptional sweet succulent flesh and good for storing.
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£2.50

Loofah
Loofah
Grow your own loofah sponge! Decorative and useful!
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£1.00

Lunga Invernale di Napoli
Lunga Invernale di Napoli
Produces an attractive large butternut shaped fruit. Winter squash can be left to mature on the plant and stored during the Winter.
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£1.00

Lunga Piena Di Napoli
Lunga Piena Di Napoli
This wonderful squash is used in Neapolitan cuisine for both its fruit and flower.
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£1.00

Lunga Serpente di Sicilia Squash
Lunga Serpente di Sicilia Squash
Squash seeds for this variety produce a vegetable that is probably the closest variety of gourd to the original Indian variety.
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£1.35

Potimarron Uchiki Kuri
Potimarron Uchiki Kuri
Squash seeds for the Uchiki Kuri produce a vigorous variety of squash that really loves to be growing in soil that is rich with organic matter and a good exposure to sunlight.
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£2.75

Sweet Dumpling Squash
Sweet Dumpling Squash
Squash seeds for the Sweet Dumpling squash is a sweet and very pretty variety with an almost almond taste.
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£2.25

Tromba di Albenga
Tromba di Albenga
Squash variety that is either a climbing or trailing variety of Squash plant that produce long, curved fruits.
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£1.40

Turks Turban Squash
Turks Turban Squash
Squash seeds for the Bischofsmutze or Turks Turban is a variety of squash that gives very high yields of inedible orange fruit with coloured stripes and an unusual shape, hence its name.
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£2.50

Squash Vegetable Spaghetti
Squash Vegetable Spaghetti
Squash variety that when opened, this particular variety of squash has a flesh that is very 'stringy' hence the name spaghetti. Seriously good to eat!
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£2.35

Violina
Violina
Violina because of its violin shape. Hard to find, this fine butternut squash has a wrinkled skin with a sweet orange flesh.
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£1.35