{"id":766,"date":"2023-11-16T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.238.170.140\/nationalseeds\/?post_type=vegetable-seeds&#038;p=766"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:58:59","slug":"waltham","status":"publish","type":"vegetable-seeds","link":"https:\/\/natseeds.co.zw\/nationalseeds\/vegetable-seeds\/waltham\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Characteristic<\/td><td>Waltham Butternut Squash<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kind<\/td><td>Open pollinated squash (Cucurbita moschata (Duchesne) Duchesne ex Poiret)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Maturity<\/td><td>90 \u2013 100 days to harvest as mature fruit<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Season<\/td><td>Widely adapted for production after danger of frost has passed, but best suited to warm season production<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Plant Type<\/td><td>Full vine<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fruit Shape<\/td><td>Cylindrical, with a bulbous blossom end<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rind Colour<\/td><td>Tan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Yield&nbsp; Potential<\/td><td>20 \u2013 25 t\/ha<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mature Harvest mass<\/td><td>600 \u2013 1 500 g in summer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Shelf Life (Matue Fruit)<\/td><td>Good<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Uniformity<\/td><td>Average<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Poulation Guide<\/td><td>Final stand of 12&nbsp;000 \u2013 20 000 plants per ha<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Yield potential<\/td><td>Good<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>End Use<\/td><td>Home garden, fresh market, open-field and under protection<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":758,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"vegetable-seed-categories":[17,65],"class_list":["post-766","vegetable-seeds","type-vegetable-seeds","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","seed-categories-opv","seed-categories-squash-opv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natseeds.co.zw\/nationalseeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vegetable-seeds\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natseeds.co.zw\/nationalseeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vegetable-seeds"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natseeds.co.zw\/nationalseeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vegetable-seeds"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natseeds.co.zw\/nationalseeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natseeds.co.zw\/nationalseeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"seed-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natseeds.co.zw\/nationalseeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vegetable-seed-categories?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}