Squash

Australian Butter Winter Squash Prolific, tasty and a versatile winter squash. 12-15 lbs with a small seed cavity and a great keeper. From Diggers Garden Club, Australia. History Winter squash appears to have been domesticated in South America (Peru)...

Benning’s Green-Tint Scallop Summer Squash - The Best Tasting Summer Squash Available High yields of pie shaped scalloped fruits with sweet, fine textured, pale green flesh on a semi open bush.  This variety dates back to 1914...

Black Beauty Zucchini Squash is from the 1930s this early, glossy black green fruits have very tender, firm creamy white flesh with an excellent flavor. Most tender and flavorful under 8". Very early and productive, excellent freezer variety. Strong...

Burgess Buttercup Squash is a flattened turban type, 5 - 8 inches in diameter 3 - 5 lbs. with thin hard dark-green rind, slight ribs and a distinctive blossom-end button. Very sweet medium-orange, fine quality, stringless, fiberless flesh with a small...

Cocozelle Zucchini Summer Squash A rich flavored zucchini that is deep green when young, but ribbed with yellow stripes when mature. Also known as Costata Romanesca. Originally from Italy; called "Cocozelle di Napoli" in the 1800s. HISTORY Summer...

Early Summer Crookneck Squash dates to the pre-Columbian era. Smooth light yellow fruits have curved neck and mature to a light orange with warts. Pick at 5-6" for best flavor - creamy sweet mild flesh. Growing tips: Sow 5 seeds per hill, 4 feet apart...

Four Sisters Garden Seed Collection Native American agriculture is well-known for the “Three Sisters” approach of corn, beans and squash supporting, protecting and nourishing each other. Several other crops were very important in Native...

Golden Zucchini Squash - The Color of Sunshine An easy to grow 3-4' tall bush bearing bright-golden, medium long and slender cylindrical fruits. Excellent flavor, fruit is creamy white inside. Best to pick fruits at 4-6" long. Great for gardens with...

Papaya Squash or Papaya Pumpkin Squash, an incredibly smooth and thick fleshed, sweet and nutty flavored papaya shaped squash that is gorgeous and vibrant yellow. Ideal for stuffing. One of the most popular Asian winter squashes, but unknown here...

Table Queen Bush Acorn Squash is a runnerless true bush type with plants 36 in. diameter. Loads of green, deeply ribbed, acorn-shaped fruits similar in all respects to Table Queen, but with a smaller footprint in the garden. 3-8 fruits per plant, 5 x 4...

Tonda Nizza Squash or "Round of Nice" Early maturing, round, light-green thin-skinned fruits for grilling, stuffing, frying or using in parmigiana instead of eggplant. Pick these "courgettes" at golf-ball size and up before skin begins to darken. The...

Vegetable Spaghetti Squash is an 1890s Chinese heirloom from Manchuria. Rounded cylindrical buff-tan fruits are 8-12 in. long and 5-6 in. diameter. 5-7 grow per plant, and are mature when skin color changes from cream to buff, will keep up to 6...

The Waltham Butternut Squash is one of the most popular butternuts. It is uniform in shape and size, good interior texture and color, 8-12 x 3-5 in., weighing 3-6 lbs., smooth light tan skin, thicker cylindrical necks, small seed cavity, rich dry...

The Yellow Bush Scallop squash is an excellent producer in home gardens with a very old history that few know about. Delicate and tender when young, growing to a more mature yet still mild flavor when full sized, this is one of the larger pattypan...

Zappallo de Tronco Squash -The Avocado Squash A wonderful cross between a summer and winter squash with an edible rind. Can be eaten whole when small (2½-4 inches) as a summer squash or left to mature to the fully ribbed state and used as a...