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Spaghetti squash · New Delhi, Delhi, India

When to plant spaghetti squash in New Delhi

Main outdoor window

21 Jan - 11 Feb

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

7 January

In New Delhi, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1 Sep - 31 Oct

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 New Delhi

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

9-30 Dec

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

Plant out

21 Jan - 11 Feb

Two weeks after your last frost.

Harvest

1 Sep - 31 Oct

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

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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 New Delhi.

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Nearby

Spaghetti squash in places close by

Delhi 4 km Noida 12 km Loni 16 km Kirāri Sulemānnagar 17 km Ghāziābād 22 km Najafgarh 23 km

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Growing spaghetti squash in New Delhi

When should I plant spaghetti squash in New Delhi?

Aim for 21 Jan - 11 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 21 Jan - 11 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will spaghetti squash be ready to harvest in New Delhi?

Expect to start picking around 1 Sep - 31 Oct, 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.