Butternut squash · Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
When to plant butternut squash in Casablanca
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Casablanca, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Casablanca
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Butternut squash through the year
Against the frost risk in Casablanca
Why these dates
Start indoors four weeks before the last frost and plant out two weeks after it. Count back from the first autumn frost: it needs a clear hundred days of warmth after planting out.
Killed at 0C. Fruit still on the vine at the first frost will not store, so cut with a length of stem and cure in the sun for a fortnight beforehand.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Butternut squash are timed from 4 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Casablanca.
Also in Casablanca
Other vegetables to time
Growing butternut squash in Casablanca
How much frost will butternut squash tolerate?
Killed at 0C. Fruit still on the vine at the first frost will not store, so cut with a length of stem and cure in the sun for a fortnight beforehand.