Leaving them to harden is best to leave in the sun not over one week, then on a covered porch out of the sun for one full week! They harden well & better for longer storage! Wiping them down with apple cider or white vinegar using a cloth or paper towel helps keep bacteria off. Then store in dry area, pantry, garage or shed. Laying them on a bed of Rice straw really helps too! Helps with moisture problems! They’ll last for many months! 👍❣️
Its called curing and its best to do so 1 month in a cool dry place with air flow. Cutting the stem long also helps keep all things you don't want to enter the, out.
First time growing butternut squash. Last year they kept yellowing and dying (very small). Figured out my mistake and now I needed to know when to harvest. Perfect video. Thank you!
Just came across this video and it is SO helpful! This is the first year I have grown butternut squash and my husband and I have been debating whether or not its time to pick my one big one yet. From your video i have learned it is not time and to watch my stem ( everything else looks ready to go). Thank you!
Thanks for this video from 7 years ago. I did a RUclips search on how to know when to harvest butternut squash. Picked yours because you always have helpful videos.
Needed this right now. I was just about to harvest but thought I’d double check. Thanks to you I’m going to leave it until the stems get dryer. Thank you xxx
This morning we were talking about when to pick the Butternut Squash, so I googled it and of course a Living Traditions video came up. Exactly the information we needed. Thank you Sarah!
When the stem withers from the butternut they are ready to harvest. If you pick it too soon it tends to be watery and not as sweet at least here in New Zealand xx
You did a great job in showing the way to tell when they are ready to harvest. This is my second time viewing this video. I watched a couple of other channels, but could not tell much because they didn't show close-ups like you did. Thanks you!!
Very thorough and informative! I've watched other videos but still had my doubts because my squash's stems are part brown and green. You cleared up any doubts I had. Thank you!
I'm very happy with this video, lots of good Information to help out other people who are just as keen to grow these plants as much as you are, thank you!😀
We had a butternut spring up and take over a corner of our garden, so far I've got 3 pumpkins that I can see and loved your video, very helpful, can't wait to harvest hopefully before winter sets in here in Australia 2020
Thank you so much for making this video! I LOVE butternut squash! For the taste and how easy they are to bake but also because they are so easy to store, just pick, cure and store. I now know exactly when to harvest them. Blessings to you all!
So helpful! Thank you SO much!!! I LOVE your videos! I have tons of butternut squash coming, and I believe 1 so far, per your video, is ready to pick. :)
Excellent, needed this. First year with Butternuts (Waltham), I really don't have a cool long term storage place, so will have to figure out how to freeze, dehydrate, can or.. guess I can just gorge on gourds.. err. squash..
Thank you for the excellent video on harvesting butternut squash, we live in Texas and this is the first year I’ve grown it. I’ve sowed many seeds all summer long and it’s now mid September so I’m hoping they will continue to bare fruit and bless us with lots of the butternut squash this fall.
I like adding steam butternut squash too Mac & cheese because I am adding a vegetable to a cheese and pasta meal. So good. I also like planting butternut squash in my garden.
Excellent video to learn the tips to confidently harvest my first ever butternut squash patch. Glad they store well because my vines were very productive….excited to enjoy all winter.
Great that you did this video. This is the first year I got butternut squash in my garden. Thanks for letting me know when to harvest them. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden channel
Hello to Sweden from Kansas, U.S.A. Many people plant winter squash in July because they have a 90-day maturation period. However, I plant mine as early as possible because you can use the young, green, immature fruits as summer squash. Green butternut is THE TASTIEST summer squash--much better than yellow crook neck or zucchini. Try grating and sauteing in butter. If you plant both summer squash and winter squash, they will probably be from the same species category and will cross-pollinate so that you cannot save the seeds. Getting both summer and winter squash from the same plant is an ideal solution. As I'm sure you know, there are many species of vegetables that if you keep them picked, they keep producing since the goal in life for a plant is to produce seeds for the next generation. So when I harvest them green, I harvest all of them guilt-free because it keeps producing and producing and producing and there will be plenty of mature ones for the fall. In fact, (I have no scientific evidence for this, but) it seems I end up with more winter squash in the autumn because the plants decide to set more blossoms since I keep stealing "the babies". I often harvest the green ones about once a week. Also, the Mexicans use the squash blossoms for quesadillas. Look up a squash blossom quesadilla recipe. It is succulent. (And if you know any Mexicans in Sweden, they will love you if you present them with squash blossoms.) Once again, when I harvest blossoms, I pick all of them. A new batch of blossoms will appear in just a couple of days. Also, if you lift up the end of a squash vine and cut it where it flexes, you can use this as a nice green vegetable. You get about 12 or so inches (sorry, don't know metric). Since the vines are so prolific, they can always use this kind of pruning. If you're keeping track, that's four vegetables from one plant. How cool is that? Getting such multi-use is a great space-saver. Since they can be trellised, that's another space saver. You get two green vegetables and two yellow vegetables, so you are getting the color/nutrition variety. A couple of times, I've had all four forms in one meal. Are you familiar with FoodWishes.com? (Also a RUclips channel) Try his Butternut Squash Soup recipe. In all honesty, it is the best soup I've ever had in my whole, entire life.
You guys have a real nice channel. That’s funny what you said about them sprouting out of your compost because mine did too ! My compost sprouted acorn squash, butternut squash and cantaloupe !!! Some I planted out but a few I left in the compost and they love it !
i have a patch of butternut but i had no idea when to tell they were ready. Thank you for this video.i am going back and watching all your videos. Keep up the good work !! Joy
Just decided to try these this year. Also doing buttercup. Glad to see you grow them on a trellis. I was searching those type of videos when yours auto played. Love your channel! I try to watch daily.
Love these squash but only just discovered that the seeds were the best part! While I adore the flavor of baked squash, now I bake the seeds next to them in the oven. I remove the innards, pull the seeds from the strings (way easier than pumpkins) and wash them a little. Dry them, toss them in a little bit of butter, cook until done and add salt. They are so much less fibrous than pumpkin and taste far better. I hate that all these years I've been throwing them away as waste or compost. They are really good roasted, candied and sprinkled on top of butternut soup.
@@erinbuyense5821 I sure agree - I get several free ones each year from the compost bile. LOLThis year my compost gave me three acorn, two butternut, and one pumpkin. What a bargain! I do save seeds from my butternut and acorn for planting in the garden but love eating them so much, also.
@@tanyapineda7212 I never thought about it before and don't know. I have one sitting on my counter that was not quite ready but the squirrels were getting to it. I will cook it then try it - if it's 'off' then I'll put it back in the compost to try again. I have a feeling it will just be bitter but will find out tomorrow night. (Update) I read in a comment below that they will continue to ripen and also that they are fine to eat - more like a summer squash and they won't store well. See the comments below for more info.
Thank u. I was thinking about getting rid of all of my squash plants because I don't want to pollinate by hand. But these have just started to bloom so I have hope🙏
Thx for the tips. It's my first time growing them this yr and I'll be growing them every year from now on ❤️. It's so easy to grow them no maintenance.
I read a bunch of articles that didn’t really tell me very much. This was so informative. I really appreciated the information about the stem, which I hadn’t seen in other places. I feel much more prepared to harvest my squash now. Thanks so much!
Ha! wonderful. I planted some kind of squash seeds this spring, from squash I had for supper last year. I did not remember what kind. well, they are those! butternut! the vines are going crazy and there are dozens of squash. I have been watching them, building trellis and moving the vines a little at a time across the yard too...they are all still green/striped-ish. I could not remember eating green squash and was hoping they would turn golden tan. Thank you for this video. I am really happy. : )
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Leaving them to harden is best to leave in the sun not over one week, then on a covered porch out of the sun for one full week! They harden well & better for longer storage! Wiping them down with apple cider or white vinegar using a cloth or paper towel helps keep bacteria off. Then store in dry area, pantry, garage or shed. Laying them on a bed of Rice straw really helps too! Helps with moisture problems! They’ll last for many months! 👍❣️
Its called curing and its best to do so 1 month in a cool dry place with air flow. Cutting the stem long also helps keep all things you don't want to enter the, out.
Awesome info! Thank you!😊Regina
That's precisley the info I was after. I appreciated the clear shots of how brown/dry the stem should be before harvesting them. Good video!
Same information I was looking for too. I had a feeling she would have the right answers. 😎👍🏼
First time growing butternut squash. Last year they kept yellowing and dying (very small). Figured out my mistake and now I needed to know when to harvest. Perfect video. Thank you!
Thanks. Great info.
I’m glad I saw your video so I don’t waste all of my hard work by guessing!!
Thank you for showing the difference in the vines.
Thanks! I’m standing in my squash patch trying to decide what is ready. Now I know.
Thank you Sarah! Grew butternut for the first time this year and there you are 6 years ago teaching me how and when to harvest it. 😊
Just came across this video and it is SO helpful! This is the first year I have grown butternut squash and my husband and I have been debating whether or not its time to pick my one big one yet. From your video i have learned it is not time and to watch my stem ( everything else looks ready to go).
Thank you!
Thanks for this video from 7 years ago.
I did a RUclips search on how to know when to harvest butternut squash.
Picked yours because you always have helpful videos.
The process is mesmerizing
I love butternut squash soup
Needed this right now. I was just about to harvest but thought I’d double check. Thanks to you I’m going to leave it until the stems get dryer. Thank you xxx
You can't go wrong with planting butternut, they are soooooo yummy 😋
This morning we were talking about when to pick the Butternut Squash, so I googled it and of course a Living Traditions video came up. Exactly the information we needed. Thank you Sarah!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Almost picked mine to early lol. Thank you and just subscribed!
Thank you, this was incredibly helpful! Harvesting my first butternut squash soon!
Exactly what I was looking for. THANKS!
When the stem withers from the butternut they are ready to harvest. If you pick it too soon it tends to be watery and not as sweet at least here in New Zealand xx
Now I understand what to look for, thank you very much. We pressure can butternut squash.
Thank you, this is our first year for growing these and did not know what to do ! Appreciate your knowledge.
Thank you for this excellent and straight-to-the-point video. Just the info we needed!
Thank you. I'm a first time grower (in the uk) and really grateful for your wisdom and experience from 'the other side of the pond'. Thanks so much
You did a great job in showing the way to tell when they are ready to harvest. This is my second time viewing this video. I watched a couple of other channels, but could not tell much because they didn't show close-ups like you did. Thanks you!!
Thank you for sharing. Just what I was wanting to know.
Very thorough and informative! I've watched other videos but still had my doubts because my squash's stems are part brown and green. You cleared up any doubts I had. Thank you!
Thank your for the clear, right to the point information!
You are living the dream! Congratulations. Love your Vibe.
First timer here so this helped out a lot. Thanks for the great information and posting!!
I'm very happy with this video, lots of good Information to help out other people who are just as keen to grow these plants as much as you are, thank you!😀
Great video with good info. Thanks for the help.. harvesting some myself and now realize I picked a few to soon.
Thsnk you Sarah. I am growing butternut squash for first time so this is sooo helpful.
How can you ripen a butternut that vine died off? It’s small and green with the butternut color on bottom and coming through some on the sides. 7:37
Thank you!! This video was perfect timing.
We had a butternut spring up and take over a corner of our garden, so far I've got 3 pumpkins that I can see and loved your video, very helpful, can't wait to harvest hopefully before winter sets in here in Australia 2020
So helpful! Thank you. I’ve grown some by accident reusing my old compost!! Pretty excited about my surprise bounty!
Thank you this was really helpful. I’m ready to go see if there are any ready to harvest
Thank you Miss Sarah…very helpful!
Love watching your videos... Hope you all have a great year!!
First time I grew butternut squash! Thanks for your valuable info. I picked 12 not ripened. Will wait! God bless 😇😍
This was a very useful video. I’m growing winter squash for the first time and I had no idea how to tell when it was done thank you.
Thank you so much for making this video! I LOVE butternut squash! For the taste and how easy they are to bake but also because they are so easy to store, just pick, cure and store. I now know exactly when to harvest them. Blessings to you all!
The best info out there. Thank you so much for showing size, color, stem. You're a great tacher.
So helpful! Thank you SO much!!! I LOVE your videos! I have tons of butternut squash coming, and I believe 1 so far, per your video, is ready to pick. :)
Just the info I was looking for. Thank you!
Lovely simple info - perfect 🙏🏻
Your presentation was very helpful. Thank you! Best of luck in your homestead!
Thanks Sarah. Great job. Good info. God bless.
This was great newbie advice! Thank you!
Thanks 😊 greatly appreciated it
Omg thank you. thank you. i got some growing now .but had no idea .when to pick it .now i do thanks to u ..so so much
This was very helpful! Thank you! Btw, I couldn't help but notice how beautiful your skin is! Seriously!
Excellent, needed this. First year with Butternuts (Waltham), I really don't have a cool long term storage place, so will have to figure out how to freeze, dehydrate, can or.. guess I can just gorge on gourds.. err. squash..
Very helpful indeed ! Thanks again.
Thank you! It’s my first year planting butternut squash and this was very informative, especially the stem part!
Your video helped me so much! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the excellent video on harvesting butternut squash, we live in Texas and this is the first year I’ve grown it.
I’ve sowed many seeds all summer long and it’s now mid September so I’m hoping they will continue to bare fruit and bless us with lots of the butternut squash this fall.
Awesome vide. Thank you for being so clear. 💯👌
Super helpful. My first year trying butternut. Thank you!
Thanks, I planted mine last January thus year. Now there's flower already
I like adding steam butternut squash too Mac & cheese because I am adding a vegetable to a cheese and pasta meal. So good. I also like planting butternut squash in my garden.
Well I wish I saw this video efore harvesting some of my butternut squash. Oh well. Thanks for sharing this very informative video. Blessings
Excellent video to learn the tips to confidently harvest my first ever butternut squash patch. Glad they store well because my vines were very productive….excited to enjoy all winter.
Good job! Just what I needed. Mine are not ready for a bit yet. Thanks!!!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the info! It is exactly what I was looking for.
Your video was brilliant, clear descriptions and seeing the actual changes was really appreciated. Thank you
Gréât tips. I have some in my garden and was wondering when to harvest.🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. I am ready to pick some butternut squash but they definitely need more time. I appreciate your advice.
Thank you, just what I needed to know.❤
Thank you for this video first time growing them and my husband and I didn’t know when to pick them😊
Great that you did this video. This is the first year I got butternut squash in my garden. Thanks for letting me know when to harvest them. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden channel
So glad you are having success this year! It is so rewarding...
Hello to Sweden from Kansas, U.S.A. Many people plant winter squash in July because they have a 90-day maturation period. However, I plant mine as early as possible because you can use the young, green, immature fruits as summer squash. Green butternut is THE TASTIEST summer squash--much better than yellow crook neck or zucchini. Try grating and sauteing in butter. If you plant both summer squash and winter squash, they will probably be from the same species category and will cross-pollinate so that you cannot save the seeds. Getting both summer and winter squash from the same plant is an ideal solution. As I'm sure you know, there are many species of vegetables that if you keep them picked, they keep producing since the goal in life for a plant is to produce seeds for the next generation. So when I harvest them green, I harvest all of them guilt-free because it keeps producing and producing and producing and there will be plenty of mature ones for the fall. In fact, (I have no scientific evidence for this, but) it seems I end up with more winter squash in the autumn because the plants decide to set more blossoms since I keep stealing "the babies". I often harvest the green ones about once a week. Also, the Mexicans use the squash blossoms for quesadillas. Look up a squash blossom quesadilla recipe. It is succulent. (And if you know any Mexicans in Sweden, they will love you if you present them with squash blossoms.) Once again, when I harvest blossoms, I pick all of them. A new batch of blossoms will appear in just a couple of days. Also, if you lift up the end of a squash vine and cut it where it flexes, you can use this as a nice green vegetable. You get about 12 or so inches (sorry, don't know metric). Since the vines are so prolific, they can always use this kind of pruning. If you're keeping track, that's four vegetables from one plant. How cool is that? Getting such multi-use is a great space-saver. Since they can be trellised, that's another space saver. You get two green vegetables and two yellow vegetables, so you are getting the color/nutrition variety. A couple of times, I've had all four forms in one meal. Are you familiar with FoodWishes.com? (Also a RUclips channel) Try his Butternut Squash Soup recipe. In all honesty, it is the best soup I've ever had in my whole, entire life.
Thanks again... had to review as I'm close to harvesting my small butternut squash bounty here in SE Louisiana.
Thank you for your tips. It’s my first year growing them and they are looking great!
Thank you!!! First time growing these.
I was wondering when to know. I'm excited ours are coming in like crazy as is all our other squashes. ty great video and one much appreciated.
This video popped just as we were having this discussion. Once it stops raining I'm going to the garden and checking them.
You guys have a real nice channel.
That’s funny what you said about them sprouting out of your compost because mine did too !
My compost sprouted acorn squash, butternut squash and cantaloupe !!! Some I planted out but a few I left in the compost and they love it !
i have a patch of butternut but i had no idea when to tell they were ready. Thank you for this video.i am going back and watching all your videos. Keep up the good work !! Joy
Another excellent video👍 awesome information! keep up the great work😁
Just decided to try these this year. Also doing buttercup. Glad to see you grow them on a trellis. I was searching those type of videos when yours auto played. Love your channel! I try to watch daily.
Thank you, I surely feel the confidence after your tips!
It was an amazing squash harvest this year
Never knew about waiting for the stems to dry. Interesting.
Love these squash but only just discovered that the seeds were the best part! While I adore the flavor of baked squash, now I bake the seeds next to them in the oven. I remove the innards, pull the seeds from the strings (way easier than pumpkins) and wash them a little. Dry them, toss them in a little bit of butter, cook until done and add salt. They are so much less fibrous than pumpkin and taste far better. I hate that all these years I've been throwing them away as waste or compost. They are really good roasted, candied and sprinkled on top of butternut soup.
I throw my seeds out to get more squash lol. 1 in the store makes 20 in the garden.
@@erinbuyense5821 I sure agree - I get several free ones each year from the compost bile. LOLThis year my compost gave me three acorn, two butternut, and one pumpkin. What a bargain! I do save seeds from my butternut and acorn for planting in the garden but love eating them so much, also.
Are they ok to eat before they are ripe?
@@tanyapineda7212 I never thought about it before and don't know. I have one sitting on my counter that was not quite ready but the squirrels were getting to it. I will cook it then try it - if it's 'off' then I'll put it back in the compost to try again. I have a feeling it will just be bitter but will find out tomorrow night. (Update) I read in a comment below that they will continue to ripen and also that they are fine to eat - more like a summer squash and they won't store well. See the comments below for more info.
I am going to try that!
Thank you for the great info, I was harvesting mine too soon! 🤦🏼♀️😩
Thank you for the 411, that's what I needed to know.
Awesome information. Thank you so much.
Great detailed video. Looking forward to some butternut recipes.
Yes Mam you are correct on when its time to harvest. Great job done here!
I really appreciate it!
Thank u. I was thinking about getting rid of all of my squash plants because I don't want to pollinate by hand. But these have just started to bloom so I have hope🙏
Thank you it’s my first year growing squash, I will keep an eye on the stems & color.
Butternut my favorite of the squashes 👍🏻.
+_ThatChick Chris Ours too, for sure!
Thx for the tips. It's my first time growing them this yr and I'll be growing them every year from now on ❤️. It's so easy to grow them no maintenance.
this lady seems like a sweety you can tell she really enjoys her garden good video
I read a bunch of articles that didn’t really tell me very much. This was so informative. I really appreciated the information about the stem, which I hadn’t seen in other places. I feel much more prepared to harvest my squash now. Thanks so much!
Ha! wonderful. I planted some kind of squash seeds this spring, from squash I had for supper last year. I did not remember what kind. well, they are those! butternut! the vines are going crazy and there are dozens of squash. I have been watching them, building trellis and moving the vines a little at a time across the yard too...they are all still green/striped-ish. I could not remember eating green squash and was hoping they would turn golden tan. Thank you for this video. I am really happy. : )
Thanks for the tips
thank you this was very helpful.. much appreciated
Thank you. you explained it so well.
Thank you very much. The information was spot on. Just what I was looking for.
Very helpful - thanks!