[courgette]

Help! I saved some seeds & forgot to label the envelope!! Now I cant remember if they're butternut squash or if they're courgette. Is there any way of telling now or when seedlings?

[lucywil]

courgettes only get seeds in if your let them mature into marrows, so did you do that?

other than that they do look pretty similar so it may be a case of pot luck!!

[Salmo]

The courgette seedlings will probably come up first, squashes need a little more warmth to germinate.

If you grew them near to each other they may well have crossbred and what you get is not what mum looked like.

[Ice]

Just compared my courgette and butternut seeds.  The courgette is rounded like an almond and the squash is paler and concave, like a fingernail.

[courgette]

courgettes only get seeds in if your let them mature into marrows, so did you do that?

other than that they do look pretty similar so it may be a case of pot luck!!

yes i did have a few marrows and collected the seeds, but I know I have butternut squash seeds somewhere too! from the other reply i'd guess they were courgette seeds! time will tell i guess! LOL

[strangerachael]

My b/n squash seeds have tiny fragments of dried orange flesh on them... can you see any?

[Noah'strolly]

I carefully labeled  bags for my runner bean and french bean seeds then put them in the wrong way round! Fortunately they look very different.

[Paul Plots]

All I know is that Bottleneck squash seeds (those massive long green things) look entirely different from courgette and butternut squash seeds - but that bit of information is a fat lot of help!

It helped me last year when the envelopes split and the seed mixed.