Spaghetti Squash Open-pollinated

Easily grow your own spaghetti squash! Oodles of fruit are produced on a 6 ft vining plant. This is the standard open-pollinated variety of spaghetti squash and is a variant of Cucurbita pepo like acorn, delicata, or pumpkins. Baked fruits release long strands with noodle-like texture but very few calories, making it a great health food.Nowadays, this squash is well-known in the USA but its rise to fame is remarkable. Its roots possibly lie in the Chinese province of Manchuria where it was selected for it’s stringy noodle-like texture (although this may be confusion with a related plant, shark-fin gourd). In any case, the Sakata Seed Company in Japan acquired and selected seeds which it began selling in 1934. Spaghetti squash was widely marketed throughout the world but never caught on until the 1970’s back-to-the-land movement snatched it up to grow as the perfect natural health food. It became mainstream by the 1980’s and today is one of the most popular squashes despite it’s lack of sweetness or fine texture like other winter squashes.Space plants 3-5 feet apart each way and ideally cover with floating row cover until plants begin to flower, to delay insect attacks. Pick fruits after vines die and before frost and store indoors. It usually keeps for several months. Seeds produced in Morgantown, WV. Germination 99% 12-25-2023.