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I have some Crown Prince/Queensland Blue winter squash seeds that I've saved. This is a "keeping" squash, we bought it from a local farm in October and didn't eat it until February/March. It is the size of a football, with hard skin of a blue-grey colour, and rich, dense, slightly nutty orange flesh. It was so good that I saved a load of seed. I'm quite optimistic that it would be a good horticultural variety as it grew well in a crappy year on a farm field - it should respond well to the higher levels of attention it would get in a garden or allotment.

It's obviously too late to sow for this year, but the seeds should keep until next spring.

The only fly in the ointment is that I don't know whether this is an F1 or not. If it is, it may not breed true.

Anyway, I'm willing to post a few out to people. If you are interested, PM me and I'll get them out.

Seeds have arrived, many thanks

Excellent, thanks for letting me know.

I have grown Crown Prince for the last 3 years, great squash as you say. I think it is F1 but I have used saved seed and they have been good, also last year I didn't plant out till june and got a crop - smaller than usual but ok so I don't think it's too late to sow. I've just sown extra's incase it stays too cold to put out the ones I have ready and they go 'past it'.

plotter wrote:I have grown Crown Prince for the last 3 years, great squash as you say. I think it is F1 but I have used saved seed and they have been good, also last year I didn't plant out till june and got a crop - smaller than usual but ok so I don't think it's too late to sow. I've just sown extra's incase it stays too cold to put out the ones I have ready and they go 'past it'.

I might risk planting a few now, I have some very manure-rich beds that should suit them.

Just read in my John Harrison that they can be sown now, so I will try a few too. Let's compare notes later.