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Catalog Products: Squash: Summer and Zucchini
| About Summer Squash- Cultivation |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | Plant seeds 1/2-1" deep, 2-3 seeds per hill, spaced 2-3' apart in late spring or early summer. After emergence, thin to one healthy plant per hill. Pick squash regularly to encourage fruit development. Best flavor when fruits are 4-6" long and skin is still tender. 250 seeds/OZ. | | Return to top |
| Classic Zucchini Cookbook |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | Nancy Ralston, Marynor Jordan, Andrea Chesman. 320 pages, 8 x 8 1/2 size. Members of the squash family are readily available for year-round eating - from summer's bounty of zucchini and summer squash to the fall and winter sweetness of the acorn and butternut varieties. Here are 225 delicious recipies that bring all kinds of healthful squash to today's tables. Paperback | | Return to top |
| Cocozelle Italian Marrow Squash |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | Cucurbita Pepo. This variety of zucchini type summer squash is very popular, easy to grow and fast maturing, producing a generous crop of delicious and delicately flavored fruits. Plants are compact bush type, bearing handsome oblong dark green fruits speckled with lighter green. As with all squash, best picked at about 8 inches for best texture and taste. Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
| Cucuzzi Edible Gourd |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | Lagenaria siceraria. 75 days. (a.k.a. ’Italian Edible Gourd’, ’Longissima’ or ’ Indian Squash’). Similar summer squash in growth habit with evening blooming white flowers and large leaves . The mature fruits are very ornamental and interesting.
Although they will reach two to three feet in length and three inches in diameter, harvest at the tender stage when six inches long and one inch in diameter and use like summer squash.
Try them sautéed in olive oil with garlic and basil and finished off with a sprinkling of parmesan cheese! Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
| Early Straightneck Prolific Summer Squash |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 50 days. Cucurbita Pepo. My kids adore the lightly steamed, buttery, smooth flavor of this squash. Very tender flesh is firm and a creamy yellow in color. Excellent yields of 10" fruits from leafy, bushy plants. Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
| Golden Summer Crookneck Squash |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 50 days. Cucurbita Pepo. Very meaty summer squash with small crookneck and small seed cavity. Good yields. Best flavor at 4-6" size. Dates to about 1700. Untreated seeds. "I purchased several seeds from you and thought that you might want to hear some good news. I dried the crookneck summer squash and entered it in the county fair and received a first place ribbon. The Butternut winter squash received a first place ribbon. The blackeyed peas received a second place ribbon in the field peas category. Thank you for some good quality seeds."....R Kusmierczyk | | Return to top |
| Scallop Summer Squash Bennings Green Tint |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 52 days. Cucurbita Pepo. Introduced about 1914. This is one of the prettiest varieties of patty pan squash. Uniform saucer-shaped fruits with scalloped edges and pale-green, fine-textured flesh of good flavor. Harvest when small. Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
| Scallop Summer Squash Early White Bush |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 53 days. Cucurbita Pepo. One of the earliest known squashes, it was possibly known in Europe as early as 1600 and called a "symnel" or "cymling". Pale green, rather flat fruit turns creamy white when mature. Fruit measures 7"X 3" deep with deeply scalloped edges. Flesh is milky white and flavorful. Bush type plant. Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
| Scallop Summer Squash Yellow Bush |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 70 days. Cucurbita Pepo. Alittle later maturing than white scallop squash but some prefer the mild, buttery flavor. Excellent yields of scalloped yellow fruit on space saving bush plants. Very vigorous growth. Best picked when no larger than 5" across. Introduced in the 1860’s. Untreated seed. | | Return to top |
| Tatume Squash |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | C. Pepo. 50 Days. This is the Mexican Heirloom summer squash used throughout Mexico and in parts of Texas. The fruit is oval and slightly elongated, growing 6-7" long and 4-5" in diameter, but pick when only about 3" when it is very tender and most flavorful. This will be an especially delicious surprise to zucchini lovers everywhere! Resistant to vine borers. Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
| Zucchini, Black |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 58 days. Cucurbita Pepo. This heirloom zucchini is my favorite. Loads and loads of dark green fruit that is good small or huge. Flesh is greenish white. Good, solid producer. Seed was first sold through the catalog of the Jerome B. Rice Seed Company in 1932. Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
| Zucchini, Golden |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 50-55 days. Cucurbita Pepo. Developed by breeders at W. Atlee Burpee from material supplied by Dr. Ovid Shifriss at Rutgers, introduced in 1973. Glossy golden-yellow, cylindrical fruits on productive, compact bush plants. A great addition to any farm market stand or home garden. Untreated seeds.
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| Zucchini, Grey |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 45-65 days. Cucurbita Pepo. Good high quality shipper popular in Mexico and the Southwest. Open semi-spiny bush type plant. Cylindrical fruits taper slightly to the stem end and have medium-green grayish toned skin. Mild flavor. Best when picked at 5-7". Untreated Seeds. | | Return to top |
| Zucchini, Round |  | | |
Fall Planting Sale. Through September 15, 2010, 10% off all vegetable seed!!! | | | | 52 days. Cucurbita Pepo. This very hard to find 3-4", mottled green zucchini is ideal for stuffing and baking. Very large yields on vigorous plants. Untreated seeds. | | Return to top |
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