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Butternut Sqash
Madeleine51
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Hi All
I was up at the allotment to day and wondered whether it is too early to harvest my crop of butternut squashes. I have a good drop of about a dozen small Hornet ones on one plant and they have only a few faint green stripes on them now. The leaves have turned pale and are shrivelling up so could I cut them now and put them in my unheated greenhouse to complete their ripening or should I leasve them a bit longer. End of August seems a bit early to cut them.
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I harvested a buffyball thinking it looked ready. The seeds weren't set properly, so I think I will leave them longer and hope for some warm weather in September.