Delicious tear-drop shaped fruit (with a lightly flattened bottom), green with pale yellow splashes and stripes with a rich gold flesh that is both smooth and sweet. These 1kg fruits can be stored through to the new year. Fairy is a vining plant, with smaller leaves, allow to scramble about or help it to behave and tie in to a frame, trellis or fence Price for 3 seeds
SOW: late April to the end of May, start 1 seed per pot or module. Keep moist but not waterlogged. Harden off & plant out in June in a sunny spot with lots of compost.
GROW: let these scramble around, if you are growing other squashes and pumpkins the smaller leaves will show you where your Fairy has got to! You can tie in and train up a trellis, fence or an obelisk so that the vines have somewhere to grow! Use a planted plastic bottle so that you can direct water to their roots. If storing ripen them outdoors (or in a greenhouse or sunny windowsill if the weather turns poor) for about 14 days after picking to harden the skin. They can keep through to the new year.
EAT: fruits can be 1kg & the rich gold smooth, sweet flesh is exceptional baked, roasted or steamed, lovely in sweet or savoury recipes. You can harden the skins for storing or you can dice the fruits as you harvest and freeze in portion sized amounts.
