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Squash
Butternut
Butternut is the most popular winter squash for UK gardens, producing tan-skinned, pear-shaped fruits with sweet, deep-orange flesh. It is more compact than many squashes and stores exceptionally well - up to 6 months in a cool, dry place. It needs a warm season to ripen fully and benefits from starting indoors in April.
Key facts
- Growth habit
- climbing vine
- Produce type
- fruit
- Support
- none
- Sun
- full sun
- Days to harvest
- 120–160 days
- Avg. yield
- 2-4 fruits per plant
- Watering
- medium
- Frost sensitivity
- high
For all squash issues and threats, see the Squash page.