Musque pumpkin "Butterbush"

* One of the best muscat pumpkins (butternut) in the world, with an excellent nutty flavour, sweet, with dense buttery, orange flesh and the ability to be stored all winter on the floor in the corridor. Butternuts appeared in Europe relatively recently and even in the UK are still considered a novelty, which cannot be said about Argentina, from where the fruits of these pumpkins are exported all over the world. Butternut squash plants (as a species generally) usually grow powerful and long-vined, however, this hybrid is a pleasant exception. The number of fruits weighing from 500 g to 1 kg can be quite large – up to 30 pumpkins from one plant. However, fruits must be removed in a timely manner, since the ripening of seeds in them delays the growth of the rest.
Unripe greenish pumpkins will ripen later in storage on the floor and acquire a characteristic beige colour. Do not pick one-day-old fruits in milky ripeness for ripening, because they will not be able to mature. 
Of course, in our conditions, these pumpkins must be grown through seedlings. Seeds are planted in containers in the first decade of May. For seed germination before emergence, it is necessary to provide heat, keep the pots in a greenhouse under solar heating, or under a lamp or near a radiator (in cold earth, seeds rot from the inside). It is not necessary to soak the seeds at all. Seedlings are planted in the ground when the threat of frost has finally passed. Some farmers confuse butternut squash with vegetable marrow (zucchini) due to its small size, but on the cut, it does not look like zucchini at all.
Butternut is a pumpkin with a thick straight "neck" and a "bulb" at the end, and inside this "bulb" there is a small cavity with seeds. The rest of the "body" of the fruit is filled with tender orange pulp. By the way, thanks to its orange colour, butternut squash is a rich source of antioxidants. 
It is not hard to guess that there is an unimaginable number of recipes for cooking dishes from this pumpkin for vegetable, meat, cereal, pasta dishes, soups, mashed potatoes, sauces. It is widely used for stuffing. Puddings, cakes, pastries, candied fruits are made from tender fruits. Finally, it is fried and simply boiled. 
An undoubted advantage of growing this variety is that it does not cross-pollinate with the large-fruited and hard-barked pumpkins (like zucchini and pattypan squash) that are widespread here. Therefore, when obtaining your own seeds from butternut, beware of cross-pollination only with other muscat varieties (of which we do not have so many, by the way).

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