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Cucurbita pepo ssp. pepo 'Spaghetti Squash' |
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| Common name |
spaghetti squash |
| Family |
cucurbitaceae |
| Life cycle |
annual |
| Flowers |
yellow |
| Size |
4' |
| Light |
sun |
From seed  |
sow when soil has warmed in spring
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We saved some seed from a store-bought spaghetti squash one spring, and popped them in among some lettuce plants in our vegetable garden when the weather warmed up. By the time the lettuce bolted, the squash plants were starting to claim the space, growing quite vigorously. Compared to our zucchini and yellow crookneck squash plants, these want to go farther, assisted by climbing tendrils that don't appear on those summer squashes.
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| | Climbing power provided by impressively spiraling tendrils |
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| | First developing fruit, mid-July |
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| | Mid-September, ripe fruit after foliage has withered away |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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