Aimers International Squash Cream of the Crop Seed Packet

Variety originated in The USA.

Cream of the Crop Squash is a bush type acorn squash that produces creamy-white 1.4kg fruit on compact vines. Light golden coloured flesh has a lovely nutty taste. Good storage squash.

Sowing: Sow directly in a sunny site in late spring after soil has reached at least 20C. Can be started indoors in paper or fibre pots 3 weeks early.

Tips: Harvest after vine dies or after rind hardens and dulls in colour. Gather before frost leaving part of the stem attached.

Planting depth: 2.5cm

Seeds per Hill: 6

Thin to: 4 plants/hill

Hill Spacing: 2m

Maturity: 75 days