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butternut squash Butternut Squash planting

grown by Brooke in Brooke's Garden · Canberra, ACT, Australia

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Finished

Planted 2013-09-01

First harvest expected 2014-01-13

Finish expected 2014-02-20

  • butternut squash
  • butternut squash
  • butternut squash
  • butternut squash
  • butternut squash
(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring
September
October
November
Summer
December
January
February
Autumn
March, usually harvesting
April
May
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 13 years ago 2013-09-01

Progress

Done finished

Quantity

unknown seedlings

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Canberra, ACT New

Daily high and low
2 °C frost lineSurvives 10–40°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
698 mm
Hottest day
40.1°C
Coldest night
-2.4°C
Soil temperature
14.2°C
Days in its best range
49 of 361
Days
361

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

Never had much success with these, we shall see.

Photos

No photos yet.

No frost reached this butternut squash planting

Frost was possible until 12 Nov. We have no night temperatures for this butternut squash planting. The butternut squash planting went in on 1 Sep, 42 days before the usual last frost (13 Oct).

This butternut squash planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
73 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 12 Nov
Usual last frost
13 Oct
planted 42 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

No seeds saved yet.

Jobs

Nothing is planned here.

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Crop

Photo of butternut squash

Butternut Squash

Cucurbita moschata

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 14 plantings
  • 3 harvests
  • An annual, living about 172 days
  • First harvest about 134 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other butternut squash plantings at the same latitude.