Plant Guide

Description:

A wonderful bush habit variety perfect for small garden spaces; good yields of yellow, blocky-oblong shaped fruit with golden yellow flesh; baked, boiled or roasted, a great alternative to spaghetti; easy to grow and easy to harvest

Edible Qualities

Tivoli Spaghetti Squash is an annual vegetable plant that is commonly grown for its edible qualities. It produces yellow oblong fruit with gold flesh which are typically harvested when mature. The fruits have a pleasant taste and a soft texture.

The fruit are most often used in the following ways:

• Cooking
• Baking

Planting & Growing

Tivoli Spaghetti Squash will grow to be about 16 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. When planted in rows, individual plants should be spaced approximately 24 inches apart. This vegetable plant is an annual, which means that it will grow for one season in your garden and then die after producing a crop.

This plant is typically grown in a designated vegetable garden. It should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. This plant is a heavy feeder that requires frequent fertilizing throughout the growing season to perform at its best. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone over the growing season to conserve soil moisture. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.