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To: mlizzy

Butternuts are (mostly) immune to SVB’s. Especially if started early enough to really get a good ‘running start’ prior to the emergence of the SVB’s.

They do take much more room than ordinary yellow squash and zucchinis though. You can trellis them but they lose part of the resistance if you do that because they can’t put down roots at each leaf node along the running vine part.

If you’ve got someplace to let them run (mine run in my yard and I just weedeat ahead of them to give them an easier time of it) and depending on the length of your growing season you might try regular old waltham butternut or seminole pumpkin. My squash and zucchini plants are always SVB magnets. When they get afflicted I pull them up and burn them and replant.

YMMV.

I grow 500-700+lbs of winter squashes every summer. Organically for the last couple years. C. Moschata (the family that butternut is in) is the one that’s ‘resistant’ to SVB’s. If you go to the rareseeds site (baker creek) they will list the variety in the description of the various winter squashes.

If you want a c. moschata type ‘summer/zucchini’ squash try ‘tromboncino’(sp). You can eat those like summer squash or zucchini when they’re young and when allowed to mature they’ll keep long term (several months) just like regular winter squash.

Lovely little garden patch, BTW. Ants took over my geraniums this year and I eventually gave up. There’s something about those particular containers and ants.


48 posted on 07/19/2013 1:53:53 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes
Lots of good info here. Thank you very much! Our squash did not have room to roam, and I could see a single root coming out wanting to attach along the stem, so that sure makes sense. And I'll check out Baker Creek next time I plant. I ♥ butternut squash, so I'll keep trying.
82 posted on 07/19/2013 3:29:34 PM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: Black Agnes

I have that trom... squash seed already on the way to me. When they get here, I’m planting a few of those seeds in a tomato barrel with a stand in the middle of the barrel for the squash to hang on if I manage to get a squash. I really hope those work for me. That’s squash available most of the year.

You are a fine gardener.


85 posted on 07/19/2013 3:36:56 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Black Agnes
If you want a c. moschata type ‘summer/zucchini’ squash try ‘tromboncino’(sp). You can eat those like summer squash or zucchini when they’re young and when allowed to mature they’ll keep long term (several months) just like regular winter squash.

My favorite squash! As winter squash they get sweeter the longer they're stored, too.
226 posted on 07/22/2013 8:22:12 AM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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