Squash Benning’s Green Tint – Ontario Seed Company

Cucurbita

A prolific pie-shaped pale green Patty-Pan squash with a delicious creamy white flesh. Open, upright, bushy plants offer an easy harvest of 10 x 5 cm fruits. Excellent sauteed or stuffed.

How to Grow

Squash are a hot weather crop. They need full sun and deep, rich, well drained, organic soil with a pH of 5.5 to 6.5. Before planting, work in lots of compost. Directly plant seed outdoors from late May to mid June 2.5 cm deep in hills 2.4 m apart with 4-6 seeds per hill. After germination, thin to 3 plants per hill. Seed can be started indoors 3 weeks before the plant out date. Squash do not transplant welluse paper or fibre pots that can be set directly in the soil. Protect mature squash from frost and cold temperatures. Germination occurs in 7-10 days.

Approx. 20 seeds/pkt