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The vegetable that thinks it’s a pasta! A big, pumpkin-like plant which scrambles vigorously across a wide area, this summer squash produces pale yellow fruits 20cm long, whose flesh separates out into spaghetti-like strands after cooking. The real surprise comes when you cook it! Cut in half and bake in the oven (with about an 1″ (2.5 cm) of water in the baking tray) until the flesh is soft. Once soft, ‘comb’ the flesh out of the skin with a fork to produce spaghetti-like strands that can be used exactly as you would conventional pasta spaghetti. Served with a rich tomato sauce and a grating of cheese this is just sheer bliss. The habit of the plant is to trail just as a pumpkin does, and each plant should produce around six fruits weighing around 3 lbs (1.5 Kg).
Approximately 8-10 Seeds
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Sowing & Growing
Sow seeds on their edge to avoid rotting, 1cm deep in small pots. Place in a propagator/cover with glass or polythene bag and maintain a temperature of 16C until the seedlings appear, which should be between 5-8 days. When the seedlings have 2/3 leaves transplant into 2L pots and grow on for a few more weeks.
In mid-late May (a week before transplanting) dig a large hole 30cm square for each squash plant (50cm apart, in rows 50cm apart) and fill with lots of well-rotted manure. Make a mound and cloche to warm soil up. Harden off the pumpkin plants for 3-4 days before transplanting out into centre of mound. Keep covered with cloche for a week or so and water well. Can also be grown in greenhouse soil provided it is very fertile and kept moist.
To start outside, dig a hole 30cm square and fill with well-rotted manure and mound the soil up and cloche the area a week before direct sowing. Plant 2 seeds into the centre of each mound 1cm deep, spacing 50cm apart, in rows 50cm apart and cloche again until the seedlings grow. Remove the weaker seedlings and remove cloche a couple of weeks later. Seed will not germinate until the temperature is consistently above 13C. Keep well-watered.
Feed every 14 days with a potash rich fertiliser.
| Packet Size | Approximately 8-10 Seeds |
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