Description

Mr Fothergill’s Squash Vegetable Spaghetti Seeds, Unusual, versatile pasta-like flesh. Harvest before first frosts, squashes are generally ripe when fruits become a darker colour and the flesh separates, rather like spaghetti on cooking.

Sow indoors for surest results, 1.5cm deep, edge down, in small pots of compost. Water well and place in a warm position. A temperature of 15-20° ideal. Keep moist. Seedlings usually appear in 7-14 days. Gradually accustom plants to outside conditions (avoid frosts), before planting out 90cm apart, when frosts are over. Or sow outdoors for ease, where they are to crop, 1.5cm deep directly into finely prepared soil which has already been watered. Allow 90cm between sowing positions. Sow two seeds, edge down, per position. Early sowings benefit from cloche protection. Thin to leave the stronger plant. Water well until plants are established.

• Easy to grow, a really novel and useful vegetable
• Produces up to 7 fruits per vine, stores up to 2 months
• Excellent source of vitamin A, good for vitamin C & folate

Sow time: Mar-May
Flowering/Harvesting time: Sep-Oct