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There are four types, Flat or Round, Yellow or White ( FY RY FW FW ). The Round ones are best for flour.

2026

Using only saved kernels this year

First Lot

• April 14th: Soaked 72 FY type | · April 18th: 26 | April 21st: + 9 | April 22nd + 4 ✅
•  20 of 26 potted on 18th ❜ April 24th 9 | April 25th +8 | April 26th +3
•  9 of 13 potted on 21st and 22nd ❜ April 25th: 5 | April 26th: +4 |
• 🌱 April 26th: 15 | April 27th: +18 | | April 28th: +2

Second Lot

• April 22nd Soaked 36 FY type | · April 26th 29| April 28th +1
• ❜ April 29th 3 | April 30th +3

Plot 1

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Diary of Borlotti Beans: Soaking, Potting and Planting out

See also https://calstock.org.uk/elf/beans?page=2

Regular Borlotti

First lot

• April 21st: Soaking 18 | · April 24th: 12 | ❜  April 27th: 1 | April 28th: 8 | April 29th: 12 |

Though I'm not a lover of squash I cultivate two varieties; there were times I did like them.

I also use the Hokkaido seeds by opening them by finger nail, which is consuming and uncomfortable work, and somewhat unrealistic for the few Butternut seeds that are viable.

2026

• Trying to sprout 3 of (Hokaido, Butternut, Courgette and another seed that was larger than Hokaido, less plump and 'old'. Strangely only two of these last three have sprouted.

Hokkaido

I keep the seeds of the previous year most of which I hull and eat. A dozen or so fat and healthy looking seeds I keep to sow. I sowed 9 this year.

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Butternut

The seeds used were bought and a few years old. The fruit usually has few viable seeds which are kept. However I deem them too small to hull for food.

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• 6th April: 9 Hokkaido and 2 butternut squashPotted seeds in warmth of workshop cabin.
• Sprouting: April 14th [1] | April 15th [2] April 17th [5] April 18th [6]
• April 15th Moved to Greenhouse
• April 19th Repotted 2 Butternut and 6 Hokkaido in 3" pots
• May 2nd 2 Hokkaido 🌱
• May 11th All 🌱✅

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Courgette

June 5th: ' 3/5