Description
Winter Squash ‘Blue Hubbard’ – Heritage Variety
10 seeds
A much-loved heritage winter squash, Blue Hubbard produces large, elongated fruits with blue-grey skin and deep orange flesh. Renowned for its exceptional keeping qualities and rich, sweet flavour, this variety has long been grown as a dependable winter staple.
Its thick, dry flesh makes it ideal for long storage and for hearty winter cooking.
Key characteristics
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Heritage winter squash
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Large, elongated fruits
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Blue-grey skin with deep orange flesh
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Dense, dry texture
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Sweet, rich flavour
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Botanical name: Cucurbita maxima
Growing information
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Sow under cover in late spring or direct sow once frost risk has passed
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Grow in fertile soil in a warm, sunny position
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Vigorous trailing vines
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Harvest in autumn when skins are fully hardened
In the kitchen
Blue Hubbard is superb for soups, roasting, baking and purées, developing a wonderfully rich sweetness after storage.
This packet contains enough seed to produce enough for the whole family , These seeds will be packaged in clear sealed bags, fully labeled with all EU seed requirements, photo, quantity of seed, packaged date etc. These will then be enclosed in our pictorial envelope together with growing tips and hints and suggestions for successful germination
- .All the seed we supply is professional quality seed which has been fully tested for germination and we grow every single variety ourselves to test viability, taste, special growing requirements and of course customer popularity.
- Delivered from our French organic Farm
- Non treated Non GMO seed Cucurbita pepo
- Beautiful unique JandL Packaging and growing instructions
- Approx. 10 seeds per packet — open-pollinated, heritage variety
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