Description
Winter Squash ‘Uchiki Kuri’ – Japanese Heritage Variety
10 seeds
A popular Japanese heritage squash, Uchiki Kuri produces small to medium-sized teardrop-shaped fruits with bright orange-red skin and deep orange, sweet flesh. Known for its smooth texture and rich, chestnut-like flavour, it is both highly decorative and delicious.
This variety is also valued for its manageable size and excellent keeping qualities.
Key characteristics
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Japanese heritage winter squash
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Small to medium teardrop-shaped fruits
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Bright orange-red skin
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Smooth, deep orange flesh
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Sweet, nutty, chestnut-like 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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Compact to semi-trailing vines
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Harvest in autumn when skins are fully coloured and hard
In the kitchen
Uchiki Kuri is excellent for roasting, soups, purées and baking, with a naturally sweet, rich flavour and velvety texture.
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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