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Ash Gourd / Winter Melon (Benincasa Hispida) | 5 seeds

£3.99 GBP
£3.99 GBP
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Please find for sale 5  Ash Gourd seeds (Benincasa Hispida) also known as Wax Gourd, White Gourd, Winter Gourd, Tallow Gourd, Ash Pumpkin, Winter Melon, Chinese Preserving Melon and Alu Puhul

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The fruit is covered in a fuzzy coating of fine hairs when young. The immature melon has thick white flesh that tastes sweet and is eaten or juiced. By maturity, the fruit loses its hairs and develops a waxy coating, giving rise to the name wax gourd. The melon may grow as large as 80 cm in length. It has yellow flowers and broad leaves.


Ash gourd is pretty easy to grow in just about all of the UK - basic instructions as follows:

  • Best sown in pots of free-draining compost in April – 2 seeds ½ inch deep per pot.
  • Ideal compost mix is  50% regular compost, 50% vermiculite (which I sell in the Accessories section of my eBay shop)
  • Keep seedlings warm (20°C) compost evenly moist – water little and often. Can be planted outside after frost risk passed.
  • Train main stem up a vertical wire or cane & pinch out growing shoot once at maximum height.
  • Pinch outside shoots 2 leaves beyond female flower (fruit swelling behind) & pinch flowerless side shoots.
  • Feed with balanced liquid fertiliser every 2 weeks once flowering.
  • Cut fruits to harvest

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