Organic seed - Vegetable spaghetti squash

The vegetable spaghetti squash has a filamentous flesh that looks like spaghetti after cooking.

Family : Cucurbitaceae - Pepo type.

Latin name : Cucurbita pepo L.

Exposure: sunny and sheltered from the wind.

Weight : 1 ,7 g

Sowing and harvesting schedule:

How to grow spaghetti squash?

Soil maintenance: before sowing, loosen the soil on 30 cm.

Sowing : 3.5 cm deep, in pots of 2 to 3 seeds. Thin out to leave only one plant every 90 cm and 130 cm between rows, then hoe and weed. At the time of sowing or transplanting in the garden, put in the planting hole a mixture of compost and manure. You can even sow directly on a compost pile.

Emergence: in 6 to 8 days in soil at 14°C.

Watering: copious watering.

Harvesting: harvest in dry weather to ensure a better conservation.

Conservation: 3 to 8 months. An excess of nitrogenous fertilization hinders the conservation.

Origin: this species is native to the North of South America, it was introduced in Europe only after the voyages of Christopher Columbus in America, like all the squashes.