Vegetable / Warm season
Delicata Winter Squash
Warm-season storage squash beds with room for vines.
Sweet, fine-textured squash with edible skin.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 100
- Germination temperature
- 70-95F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 36 inches
- Row spacing
- 60 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 3 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 14 days after last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Deep, consistent water during vine growth and fruit set.
- Soil
- Warm, fertile, well-drained soil with compost.
- Watch
- Avoid late planting where frost arrives before skins harden.
- winter-squash
- cucurbit
- storage
- warm-season
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Cucurbit Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide