How to Grow Yellow Crook Neck Squash
Garden grown food tastes so much better than store bought and is well worth the effort if you have the room and the time to spare. The following article tells you step by step how to grow yellow crook neck squash in 55 to 58 days. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Till the garden spot until the dirt is crumbly and fine. This task may take three sweeps with the tiller. Throw out any rocks you may come across and till in any organic matter you wish to add, such as compost.
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Buy quality yellow crook neck squash seeds from a reputable seed company.
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Run twine lines in rows three feet apart where you want your squash plants to grow. This keeps the rows straight and organized and easy to walk between when it comes to harvesting.
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Make furrows in the soil along the pre-determined rows ready to plant the seed.
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Plant two seeds eighteen inches apart in the furrows. Yellow crook neck squash is a prolific grower and needs room to spread out. Cover the seeds with one inch of soil. Water the seeds in with a watering can.
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Place a stake at the end of one row with the empty seed packet impaled upon it to let you know what is planted there.
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Water and weed regularly as the germinating seed will need nutrients once it has its true leaves.
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Thin the rows once the seeds have germinated by plucking up inferior sized plants which will give the stronger plant the nutrients it needs to grow to the proper size.
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Harvest when the squash is five to six inches long. Keep the squash picked as flavor and texture will be inferior if the vegetable is left to grow to enormous size on the plant. Rescue any squash growing right on the ground, as the vegetable will rot quickly--eat them rather than let them spoil.
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Tips & Warnings
Weed and water the plants regularly. A garden needs one inch of rain or water every week to grow properly.
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- Photo Credit V. Ries Copyright 2008
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On a day when you have both male and female flowers open, try hand-pollinating the female flowers. It's likely that the females that are withering just aren't getting pollinated. Good luck!
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I just picked my first one! now how I'm I going to cook it?
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My squash flowers were blooming and then falling off. I found out it was because they were male flowers. Now that the female flowers have begun to bloom, I get little squashes, but once the flower falls off, the squash either rots away, or it seems to hollow out. Any ideas?
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Your squash look amazing in your garden!! yum!
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just picked our first crook neck squash!
