Spaghetti squash · Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
When to plant spaghetti squash in Cairo
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Cairo, 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 Cairo
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.
Spaghetti squash through the year
Against the frost risk in Cairo
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 Cairo.
Nearby
Spaghetti squash in places close by
Also in Cairo
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Growing spaghetti squash in Cairo
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.