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Spaghetti squash · Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil

When to plant spaghetti squash in Criciúma

Main outdoor window

7-28 Aug

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

24 July

In Criciúma, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1 Mar - 30 Apr

If you plant at the start of the window.

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

Step by step in Criciúma

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.

Start indoors

26 Jun - 17 Jul

Four weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.

Plant out

7-28 Aug

Two weeks after your last frost.

Harvest

1 Mar - 30 Apr

Frost tolerance
Tender
Damaged below
0°C (32°F)
Days to maturity
90–110
Min soil temp
18°C (64.4°F)
Spacing
90 cm
Sowing depth
25 mm (1 in)
Sun
Full

Spaghetti squash through the year

Against the frost risk in Criciúma

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Why these dates

Start indoors four weeks before the last frost and plant out two weeks after. Harvest when the skin has turned deep yellow and resists a thumbnail.

Killed at 0C. Harvest before the first frost and cure for a week or two, after which it keeps for several months.

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. Spaghetti 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 Criciúma.

See every crop timed for Criciúma →

Nearby

Spaghetti squash in places close by

Palhoça 134 km São José 139 km Florianópolis 145 km Caxias do Sul 184 km Blumenau 198 km Novo Hamburgo 204 km

Also in Criciúma

Other vegetables to time

Tomatoes tender Lettuce half hardy Potatoes half hardy Courgettes tender Sweet peppers tender Carrots hardy Cucumbers tender Green beans tender Peas hardy Garlic very hardy Chilli peppers tender Sweetcorn tender

Growing spaghetti squash in Criciúma

When should I plant spaghetti squash in Criciúma?

Aim for 7-28 Aug in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 8-29 Aug - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will spaghetti squash be ready to harvest in Criciúma?

Expect to start picking around 1 Mar - 30 Apr, based on 90 to 110 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will spaghetti squash tolerate?

Killed at 0C. Harvest before the first frost and cure for a week or two, after which it keeps for several months.