Other squashes, Pumpkins

Squash (Cucurbita maxima)  25 seeds per pkg. – $3.00

500. Howden Field pumpkin – 100 days  Tall faces make for great carving pumpkins on this variety.  Beautiful storage capabilities as well and early enough if started indoors.  One plant provides up to 7 of these pumpkins every year.  Good for pie but not the best pie pumpkin. Earlier variety for the prairies.

501. Small Sugar – 100 Days  A perfect size for drawing faces on at Halloween, these small pumpkins average about 3 lbs. and are perfect spheres.  Cute and good eating too.  The seeds can be used like pumpkin seeds, as can all types.  Delicious!

510.  Blue Hubbard – 95-100 days  These plants surprised me last year by producing huge 10 lb. hubbards by the end of the season even with a slow start and a dry year.  The fruit is blue-ish as it grows, ripening to a pale orange once in storage.  Long keeper, firm, sweet, moist flesh.  Not as dry as regular Hubbard squash.

511.  Rouge Vif D’Etampes – 95 days  Dating back to pre 1883, this is also known as the Cinderella pumpkin, or Red Etampes.  Deeply ribbed French heirloom, growing large and flat like the popular Disney version.  Flesh is thick and yellow, good for pie and pumpkin soup.  Mild flavor.  Grows orange at all stages of development.  Decorative and ornamental, but also useful.

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512.  Maxima Mix – 80-100 days.  A blend of winter squash, of all types and shapes, for all needs.  20 seeds $3.00

513.  Jack o’Lantern Medley – 100 days.  Our favorite blend of pumpkins designed to give you an assortment of all sizes for carving and pie. Mostly large types.  20 seeds – $3.00

536.  Big Max type – 109 days. NEW!! Huge potential pumpkins, like Dill’s only more manageable.  Grows between 10 and 50 lbs. or bigger.  Depends on you! Good for pies, seed lovers and pumpkin addicts.

537.  Jolly Roger pumpkin – 89 days.  Round and jolly, medium sized pumpkins just the perfect size for pie or carving.  Start out green speckled and turn orange.  Delightfully easy to grow.

 

520. Orange Buttercup/Turban Squash – 95 days This is a Kabocha type buttercup squash that can sometimes have a turban squash base from the blossom scar.  Usually roundish with lighter orange stripes, sometimes they are more green.  The fruits are always delicious, keeping well and producing many fruits on one vine.  The usual weight is 3-4 lbs. sometimes more. Very productive in seeds that can be saved and roasted for eating as well.

521. Green Buttercup – 95 days Flattish buttercup type, dark green, bright orange flesh that is dryer and sweet.  Good producer. Long vines produce well even in stress years. (Limited offering)

525. Sweet Momma type – 85 days  These flattened buttercup squash are about 4 lbs., maintaining a dark green color with lighter stripes.  The flesh is medium dry, excellent for squash soup recipes and baking.  The seeds are delicious as well.  Each vine can produce many squashes.  Two vines produced 10 fruits last year before mom cut the vines short.  They are good keepers as well.  They do well in cooler climates.

Squash (Cucurbita pepo) 25 seeds per pkg. unless otherwise stated – $3.00

530. Connecticut Field – 110 days  Limited offering.  These pumpkins are good for pie and also carving.  Pumpkins can be eaten like squash, providing good nutritional value and fiber.  The fruits can reach up to 25 lbs. but in Northern Climates with an indoor start you will probably have the largest ones at 10 lbs.  They are slightly flattened out of round, but still with good shape for carving.  The seeds make good eating as well.  The flesh is dry and sweet.

535. Atlantic Giant Pumpkin – 115 Days (4 seeds per pkg.) NOT AVAILABLE THIS YEAR.  See Big Max

540. Birdhouse Gourd – 95 days  10 seeds per pkg.  We grew these gourds to experiment and they managed to mature and give seed.  The gourds are neat when hollowed out to use as birdhouses or dipping vessels.  I imagine you could make bowls from them as well.

541. Yellow cup gourd – 95 days  Averaging ½ lb. each, these cute gourds can be used for decoration, but I wanted to make drinking cups out of them and so that is what I did.  They are small, pear shaped with bumps on the yellow skin.  Interesting and fun.

542. Green birdhouse gourd – 95 days  5 seeds per pkg.  Limited offering.  Similar to the above yellow gourds, only large, oblong and with fewer bumps.  The skin is striped green.  They can be used for larger birdhouses or drinking cups or bowls.

543.  Mixed Gourd – average 95 days. NEW!! A mixture of gourds to make a colorful basket at Thanksgiving.  Start indoors early for best results.

545. Table Queen Acorn  type – 90 days.  Limited offering – 10 seeds. A typical acorn squash with nice yellow flesh.  Firm and tasty.  They grow well with other squashes.  Best cut in half and baked with butter and salt and pepper.  Excellent source of vitamins and minerals.

546.  Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash ( Acorn type) – 90 days. NEW!! This prolific slow spreading bush squash produces abundant orange-yellow long acorn type squash with a unique sweet flavor.  Long season type but worth the growing time. Limited – 10 seeds.

547.  Fordhook Acorn – 90 days. NEW!! Developed by the W. Atlee Burpee Seed Co. in the us, they were named for the research farm atFordhook,Penn..  Up to 2 lbs., golden, and deeply ribbed acorn squash.  Firm dry flesh.  Very rare – 10 seeds.

550.  Black Beauty Zucchini – 60 days.  Limited offering – 10 seeds.  Large dark green zucchinis that do well in the heat, drought or cold.  Flesh is firm and solid, ripening to darker orange if kept over winter.  Can be eaten raw, or canned, dried as chips, etc.. Sold out.

555. Ambassador Zucchini – 50 days.  Limited offering – 10 seeds. As above but lighter green color, maturing sooner in the summer. Plant is compact and high yielding over entire summer.  Not available in 2012.

557.  Eight Ball or Mexican zucchini – 65 days.  Small round zucchinis that are fun to grow.  Use as you would any zucchini.

558.  Bread loaf zucchini – 68 days.  Growing rounder and larger than black beauty, these zucchini achieve the size of a large loaf of bread, more elongated, up to a foot in length.  Use young as you would any zucchini.  Limited availability.

559.  Onyx type zucchini – 60 days.  Darker black than black beauty, similar to grow and used the same.  Limited for 2012.

570.  Baby Boo type mini – 90-95 days.  Pumpkins used for decorative baskets or kids use at Halloween.  They have white skins.  Limited offering.

571.  Jack Be Little type – 95 days.  Mini pumpkins with red skins and decorative lobes.  Limited offering.

572.  Mini Baby pumpkins – 90 days.  Smaller than Small Sugar, used for ornamental use or for small children to paint.  Cute.  Orange skins and flesh.  Limited offering this year.

573. MandanSquash – 85 days.  Originally from Heritage Harvest Seeds, this is what she believes to be the original Mandan Squash from the Mandan Native tribe of theMidweststates.  The fruits are flattish, yellow with green stripes, up to 1 lb. in size, for fresh summer eating.  Very ornamental later, can be used in fall decorative displays. Extremely rare.  10 seeds per pkg..

574.  White Scallop Squash – 70 days.  Early and interesting, these flying saucer shaped light green summer squash ripen to an almost white color, 7-8” in diameter.  Plants are compact.  Mom thinks they look like flying saucers due to their squat nature and deeply lobed exterior rim.  Great taste young or baked when older.  Pre – 1591 variety aka Cymling, Custard Marrow, or Patisson Panache ( Pati-pan).

575.  Spaghetti Squash – 90 days.  10 seeds.  Used commonly for it’s shredding quality when cooked, resembling spaghetti and used in the same way.  Good producer.

576.  Potimarron –  90-100 days.  10 seeds.  Very limited for 2012.  This squash is one of the few summer squashes that is orange from fruit set onwards.  A heritage squash whose name means pumpkin and chestnut, as the flavor resembles the latter.  It keeps very well, increasing the nutrient content the longer it is in storage.  Very rare.

577.  Squash Mix – Edible summer and winter squash, each individually marked, in one package, all shapes, sizes, colors and tastes.  Sure to please, you decide which are your favorites.  All seeds are edible.  5 of each variety (summer and winter varieties). $4.00