Organic seeds - Berry squash

Sucrine du Berry squash

Description
The Sucrine du Berry squash produces fruits of 1,5 kg with orange flesh, tender, sweet and very perfumed.
Moschata type.

Guide of culture
Before sowing, loosen the soil on 30 cm. Exposure sunny and sheltered from the wind.

Sowing: at 3,5 cm of depth in poquet of 2 to 3 seeds.
Thin out to leave only one plant every 90 cm and 130 cm between rows.

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

Sowing and harvesting dates:
- Sowing: March-April (clod nursery), May-July (open field) champ).
- Harvest : September to November, crop cycle : 90-145 days.

Yield : 2 to 4 kg/m².
An excess of nitrogenous fertilization hinders the conservation.

Cultural practice
Squash belongs to the cucurbitaceae family.
To sow, either in clods (5x5 cm), or in a semi-heavy soil and very fumsow in 3-seed stacks at a depth of 2 cm.
Water copiously.
To thin out by preserving only one foot, then to hoe and weed.
From sowing to obtaining the plant, it takes 3 to 4 weeks.
The types moschata are very vigorous and runners.
They support very well the big heats.
Orange flesh, rich in carbohydrates.
They produce fruits with a reduced shelf life.

The advice and suggestions are given only as an indication and do not include a guarantee of harvest.