Butternut rugosa

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I am growing butternuts for the 1st. time, do I pick them early like courgette's or leave them on the plants till autumn like squashes?,
some of them are the size that you see on the supermarket shelf.
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Leave them till they have hardened off in the Autumn. Only then will they store into the Winter.
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Sounds like they have done well. I haven't tried them yet, are they easy to grow Bren, same as squashes or any special tips?
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Picked too early, before they've hardened off, the flesh is not nice as the sugars have not developed, bit like am unripe apple.
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Hi Bren,
I grew them, for the first time, last year and tried them about now and they were very disapointing. Realy inedible. The ones I left till the plants were dying back in Autumn were lovely. Don't be tempted to try now.
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Hi Bren,
Leave until hardened off - they store really well but the skin can be a bit hard to peel so I roast with skin on and they are delicious. Infact I would grow them in preference to all other squashes.
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Thank you all for your help, I will leave them in the ground like the other squashes till frost is treatened.

Nature's Babe I just sowed and transplanted them the same as the other squashes just kept the two lots as far apart as I could.
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LOL Yes Bren,, I believe they can be a bit promiscuous !
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