Squash - Winter
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Large-Packaged Winter Squash Varieties
- Acorn Table Queen (80 Days): The traditional acorn squash bears a generous harvest of dark green, grooved acorn-shaped fruits that measure approximately 13x10cm (4x5"). The medium thick flesh is pale orange, dry and sweet with a wonderfully distinct flavour.
- Buttercup Burgess (90 Days): Dark green skinned fruits that hide a thick, dry and very sweet golden yellow flesh. Bears a generous harvest of 13cm (15") deep by 15cm (6") wide fruits with a distinctive protruding button at the blossom end. Stores well.
- Butternut Waltham (100 Days): An excellent keeper with smooth tan skin and butter yellow flesh, this elongated pear-shaped variety reaches 30cm (12") in length and 13cm (5") wide at its largest diameter. The smooth textured flesh has a dry, slightly nutty, sweet flavour that is excellent when baked.
- Honeynut Butternut (85 Days): Exceptional yields of individual-size, sweet, butternut squash- higher yielding than traditional butternut squash. Fruit size: 10-13cm (4-5") long, 6-7cm (2.5-3") wide at neck, 7-10cm (3-4") wide at base.
- Little Dipper (110 Days): A small, traditional-shaped butternut squash that is easy to grow and cook. Weighing in at about 2lbs per fruit. Fruits are smooth with a buff exterior and bright orange interior. Nutty flavour and a dense, small seed cavity.
- Sunshine (100 Days): 2004 AAS Winner. Produces good yields of 4lb bright red-orange squash that has sweet, nutty tasting smooth, stringless flesh.
- Sweet Mama Hybrid Buttercup (85 Days): An AAS Winner, Sweet Mama is an excellent winter keeper with dark green skin and thick golden yellow flesh. The sweet flavoured fruits boast an average weight of 1.1kg (2 1/2 lbs), Compact semi-bush plants offer a very high yield.
- Vegetable Spaghetti (90 Days): A unique squash with 20cm (8") long cylindrical fruits that may be baked, broiled or microwaved. Vines average 4-5 fruits.