growing butternut squash

this will be my 1st yr growing butternut squash and my packet is one for outside use,,,sorry cant remember variety name but I thought they all were outside ones...Im sure someone else with more knowledge will be along soon

Start the seeds off indoors , move to the greenhouse when the frosts have gone and keep them there as long as possible before you plant them out.
Big plants do seem to get going better than small ones.Plant on a good sized hole full of dung or garden compost.

Most importantly ............pray for a sunny summer.

Love butternuts, grow them every year, from saved seed from the shops and they have done great, i always put them in after the winter kale and psb have come out, start off in pots about now, greenhouse or indoors then put out

Hi realfood - nice to see I'm not the only one trying for butternuts in Glasgow!

I planted the seeds from a squash I ate from Aldi three weeks ago.  I've got about 20 of the triffids on the go, and had to put them under a cheapy plastic tunnel earlier this week as they threatened to take over the window sill!  I know it's a complete unknown, but I'm crossing my fingers that they will give me some squash, especially if its a sunny summer!

You can't really stay on our allotment site unless you can grow pumpkins and squash. The old boys have already got them on the top of their manure heaps, covered in glass.