Kabocha Large Green

Kabocha Large Green

Kabocha Large Green

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A good-yielding, kabocha-type winter squash notable for its excellent flavour and texture.

Description

Cucurbita maxima

A good-yielding, kabocha-type winter squash notable for its excellent flavour and texture. The green, flattened fruit are quite large, averaging about 18cm in diameter and 2 kg in weight. They have an attractively thick, burnt orange flesh that is honey sweet, smooth and moist.

Production is on long trailing vines that are better suited to larger spaces.

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Approximate number of seeds: 6

 

Sea Spring Seeds Trial
Six plants were grown in a Sea Spring Seeds trial in 2021, giving an average yield of 3.8 fruit per plant. In comparison, the Royal Horticultural Society conducted a winter squash trial from 2010 to 2011, when their average yield for Kabocha Large Fruited was 6.4 fruit per plant.

More information
• Fruit should be harvested when they are mature, sometime in the autumn. Fortunately, maturity of Kabocha Large Fruited is easily determined: the thick green stems of the fruit turn dry, brown and corky.

• Fruit should be brought undercover before the first frost.

• Harvest with secateurs, leaving about 2 to 3cm of stem on the fruit.  

Additional information

2021 Trial

Six plants were grown for the trial in 2021, giving an average yield of 3.8 fruit per plant. In comparison, the Royal Horticultural Society conducted a winter squash trial from 2010 to 2011, when their average yield for Kabocha Large Fruited was 6.4 fruit per plant.
More information

• Fruit should be harvested when they are mature, sometime in the autumn. Fortunately, maturity of Kabocha Large Fruited is easily determined: the thick green stems of the fruit turn dry, brown and corky.
• Fruit should be brought undercover before the first frost.
• Harvest with secateurs, leaving about 2 to 3cm of stem on the fruit.  

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