Squash 'Honey Bear' F1 Seeds (AGM)

Overview

Squash 'Honey Bear' F1 AGM produces small dark green, ridged squashes on a compact plant. The fruits have rich orange flesh inside which is full of flavour & sweetness and is a great improvement on the taste of many older acorn squash varieties.

Squash 'Honey Bear' grows to about 1m in length and produces on average 3-5 fruits per plant. It is a compact plant and is suitable to grow in a container and trail up a teepee. It has high resistance to powdery mildew this disease does affect many acorn squashes as they mature late in the season when temperatures are lower and the weather is wetter.

Squash 'Honey Bear' received an AGM from the RHS in 2011 as it has very sweet & tasty flesh, stores well and has good resistance to powdery mildew. An excellent acorn squash variety to grow.

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Seed qty (approx)	8
Sowing months	March, April, May, June
Site conditions	Well drained, humus rich soil in a sheltered sunny spot out of way of strong winds that can cause damage to the large leaves.
How to sow	Indoors: March to May. Sow seeds vertically 1cm deep in a small pot. Place in propagator/cover with glass or polythene bag until the seedlings appear (usually 5-8 days). When the seedlings have 2/3 leaves transplant into 2L pots and grow on for a few more weeks. In mid-late May (a week before transplanting) dig a large hole 30cm square for each squash plant (50cm apart, in rows 50cm apart) and fill with lots of well-rotted manure. Make a mound and cloche to warm soil up. Harden off the squash plants for 3-4 days before transplanting out into centre of mound. Keep covered with cloche for a week or so and water well. Can also be grown in greenhouse soil provided it is very fertile and kept moist. Outdoors: May - June. Squash are hungry feeders so to give them a good start outside, dig a hole 30cm square and fill with well rotted manure and mound the soil up and cloche the area a week before direct sowing. Plant 2 seeds into the centre of each mound (1cm deep, spacing 50cm apart, in rows 50cm apart) and cloche again until the seedlings grow. Remove the weaker seedling, and remove cloche a couple of weeks later. Seed will not germinate until the temperature is consistently above 13°C. Keep well watered.
Care	Feed every 14 days with a potash rich fertiliser. Keep well watered but try not to wet the fruit. Once growing, lift the squash off the soil onto a piece of wood or upturned terracotta pot to allow air to circulate and the squash to ripen.
Harvest	July to October. Pick any remaining fruits before the first frosts. These can be stored in frost-free conditions and can last several weeks.
Information	RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM), F1 Hybrid Variety

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