Squash

All seeds are sustainably grown & chemical free. 20 seeds in each packet.

Summer Pepo:

1) Cocozelle  – 55 days. The classic ‘Italian Heirloom’ striped summer squash with unique dark & light stripes available since 1885. Large bush plants are non-vining & grow in an upright open habit reaching 18-24” tall & 18- 20” width. Full of flavour, tender & thus great for cooking, freezing & cannng.  

2) Lemon Zucchini –55 days.  Round yellow fruit is sweet & tender with dense flesh. Short bushy vines keep on bearing until frost.  

3) Mutabile Zucchini – 50 days. Cylindrical deep green fruits are easy to pick due to the plant structure & almost total lack of thorns. The open, vase shaped plants yield consistently as the powdery mildew resistant plants stay healthy much longer.  Excellent OP variety!

4) Pattisson Panache Jaune et Verte – 55 days. Beautiful heirloom pre 1856 variegated pattypan with cream & green strped fruit. Young fruit don’t have as much striping as older mature fruit. Best eaten young , older fruit can be dried for decoration. Productive!

Winter Pepo:

1) Gill’s Golden Pippin – 90 days. This heirloom variety has more flavour than the typical acorn squash, delicious, sweet and nutty. Each small bright yellow fruit is perfect to cut in half and roast as a side dish for one or two people. 5-8 squash per plant & extremely prolific! Also perfect for autumn displays as well

2) Squisito Spaghetti – 85 days. Extra sweet rich orange strings. Diverse & variable.

3) Zeppelin Delicata – 90 days. Ivory-coloured oblong fruits with dark green stripes with great sweetness that Delicatas are known for. No peeling necessary. 6-8 squash per plant.

Maxima:

1) Blue Ballet Hubbard – 95 days. Improved mini blue hubbard, smooth skinned, blue-gray fruits are medium size, avg 4-6 lb with sweeter, bright orange, fibreless flesh. Stores well. 

2) Blue Kuri – 90 days. Japanese Kabocha. Round, slightly flattened fruits with blue-grey skin & dense dry orange flesh. Sweet rich flavour that is even better after a month or two in storage. Small to medium size fruit weighing 2-3 lb. will serve 2 people. Early to ripen with long storage.

3) Red Kuri Kabocha – 85-95 days, 40 days after flowering. This Japanese variety is a smooth orange-red teardrop-shaped squash with thick creamy yellow flesh with a very sweet & nutty flavour. Weighs about 3 lbs when mature. Kuri means ‘chestnut’ in Japan. Plants produce 3-4 lb. fruit that ripen even in short cool season areas on highly productive vines, producing 3-5 fruits. Very high in beta carotene. Great keeper.

4) Uncle David’s Dakota Dessert Buttercup – 95 days. David Podoll calls this strain ‘the original buttercup’ as it has been in his family for 70 years, where they have selected it for 40 years, crossing it with hubbards and other maximas, for color, taste, sweetness plus vigour and hardiness in cold weather, but also for thick flesh, small seed cavities and higher productivity. Delicious main-dish squash & the Podoll family bake it into pies without using any other sweetener. The most reliable, easy to grow squash in any kind of weather & #1 on Emmerdale Eden Farm.

 

Moschata

1) Burpee’s Butterbush – 75 days. Super early maturing dwarf-vined butternut with extremely tasty 2-3 lb fruits with small seed cavities & deep reddish-orange flesh. Superior sweet nutty flavour, “as sweet as sweet potatoes”, & moist but not watery. Space-saver in the garden, growing about 4’ wide & producing 4-5 ripe fruits per plant, even in cold summers.Short season grower & great keeper.

2) Kogigu – 80-90 days. A heavily ribbed beautiful Japanese variety of personal-sized fruit. Vines grow heavy yields of 2 pound fruits in a smaller space. The bumpy skin starts out dark green, maturing to a buff orange with a whitish bloom in storage. Fine, sweet orange flesh, & thin skin, which ripens fairly early for a pumpkin moschata-type squash. Halve & bake, enjoy raw or make into soup. Great keepers.     

3) Waltham Butternut– 95 days. Introduced in 1970. Heavy reliable producer of 9-10” long buff coloured fruit, weighing 4–5 lb with great flavour & a good keeper. Dark orange dry flesh has a sweet nutty flavour. Excellent keeper.  20 seeds per packet.