"Zootal" wrote in
:

Someone recently asked a question about growing peppers
(was it peppers?) from seeds in a pepper fruit. So, my
question is similar, but about squash. I have a squash
sitting on my desk that is unusual and strange looking. I
want to plant the seeds and see what grows from it. My
question is - will the seeds grow if I just take them out
of the squash and stick them in the ground when the weather
warms up? Or do they need to be removed from the squash and
dry for a while? I know that latter method works, as I've
done it before. Can you plant seeds directly from squash
into the garden?

yes, you can do that too.
we have keeper pumpkins. i store them in the basement root
cellar & any left when the garden soil warms up just get
deposited into the pumpkins area of the garden. the seeds from
the ones we ate get planted out there a bit more neatly, well,
the ones i don't eat anyway.
you can dry the seeds of gourds or squash/pumpkins, or just
plant them fresh. as long as the fruit they came from was ripe
& your soil is good (& warm enough), they should grow &
produce something. might not resemble what the seed came from,
a particularly noticable thing in gourds
BTW, one of my deposited pumpkins last summer produced two
very distinctly different types of plants. one set had rounded
leaves & small white pumpkins & the other had pointier leaf
edges & large day-glo yellow pumpkins. both types are tasty &
not too watery, but i don't know what they are crosses of. i
had planted 6 types the year before...
lee