Yellow Straightneck Squash
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- Item #: STR-SQS
46 Days.
All-American Selections Winner.
This variety of Straightneck summer squash is very popular, easy to grow and fast maturing, producing a generous crop of delicious and delicately flavored squash. Squash plants are compact bush type bearing straight tapered bright yellow fruits. This early yellow squash is delicious baked, steamed, fried, boiled or served raw. Squash freezes well.
Sowing:
Plant Straightneck squash seed outdoors after all danger of frost is past or start indoors 4 to 6 weeks earlier. Make a group of 4 to 6 seeds placed a ring about 2 inches across; cover with 1/2 inch of fine soil, well pressed down. Each ring of seeds is called a hill and hills should be spaced 3 to 4 feet apart each way. Thinning:
When Straightneck squash plants are 2 to 3 inches tall, thin leaving the 3 or 4 strongest plants in each hill. Germination:
Straightneck Squash seed germinates in 10 to 14 days depending on soil and weather conditions.
Plant Straightneck squash seed outdoors after all danger of frost is past or start indoors 4 to 6 weeks earlier. Make a group of 4 to 6 seeds placed a ring about 2 inches across; cover with 1/2 inch of fine soil, well pressed down. Each ring of seeds is called a hill and hills should be spaced 3 to 4 feet apart each way. Thinning:
When Straightneck squash plants are 2 to 3 inches tall, thin leaving the 3 or 4 strongest plants in each hill. Germination:
Straightneck Squash seed germinates in 10 to 14 days depending on soil and weather conditions.
