Notes
Short-storage. Sell September–November. Edible skin.
Cultivars / Cucurbits
Delicata
Winter squash · Cucurbita pepo
DTM
80 d
94 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
24 in in-row
Density
0.5
plants / bed-ft
Yield
4
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.20
$2.00 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 18 d
- Germination
- 6 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 95°F (opt 85°F)
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 24 in
- Seed spacing
- 24 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 0.5
- Plants / 50 ft
- 25
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 80 d
- Holding
- 14 d
- Occupancy
- 94 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 4
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 4 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.25 / $2.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.3 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 25
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 101.3
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.6 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.5 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.4 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.8 / 0.3 / 1.2 lb
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-22
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-28
- First harvest
- 2026-07-04
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 14 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 30 seeds · 25 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $225.00 / $360.00
Companions
corn · bean
Avoid
potato