Winter Storage Squash Seeds
From tender summer harvests to winter meals, find squash seeds for your garden and kitchen.
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Shop winter squash and pumpkin seeds for a harvest you can cook through the cooler months. These are seed packets for planting. Storage life depends on the variety, maturity at harvest, rind condition and storage environment.
Choose seeds for your storage harvest
- Seminole pumpkin seeds: an open-pollinated heirloom with long, vigorous vines. Allow plenty of room and plan around the longer end of its listed maturity range.
- Waltham Butternut seeds: a traditional butternut for roasting and soups.
- Long Island Cheese pumpkin seeds: a cooking pumpkin that also suits pies.
- Tahitian Melon squash seeds: a larger-fruited squash for gardeners with room for vigorous vines.
Also compare Musquee de Provence, Bakers Branch Butternut, Violina Rugosa and Musquee de Maroc. Each product lists its own growing details and packet choices.
Plan for storage, not a guaranteed shelf life
Harvest fully mature, sound fruit before damaging frost. Handle carefully, follow variety-appropriate curing guidance and store with airflow at about 50 to 55°F. Check regularly and use damaged fruit promptly. A warm kitchen or pantry is not the same as controlled cool storage.
Many Cucurbita moschata varieties have useful vine borer resistance, but resistance does not mean immunity. Compare more pumpkin seeds for planting and read our Kansas variety guide.
