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------------------SUMMER SQUASH VARIETIES-----------------------
SQUASH, SUMMER:
Botanical name: Cucurbita species
Origin: American tropics
COMMON NAMES: Summer Squash, Crookneck, Pattypan, Straightneck,
Scallop, Zucchini
VARIETIES:
Crookneck: Golden Summer Crookneck (53 days)
Scallop or Pattypan: Peter Pan (60 days)
Scallopini hybrids (60 days)
St. Patrick Green Tint (60 days)
Straightneck: Early Prolific Straightneck (50 days)
Zucchini: Gold Rush (60 days)
: Zucchini hybrids (60 days)
These are only a few of the varieties available. Ask your Cooperative
Extension Service for other specific recommendations for your area.
DESCRIPTION: The cucumber family, to which squashes belong, probably
has the greatest diversity of shapes and sizes of any vegetable
family except the cabbages.
It's the genus Cucurbita and includes certain gourds and pumpkins,
as well as squashes. Most are trailing or climbing plants with large
yellow flowers (both male and female); the mature fruits have a thick
skin and a definite seed cavity. "Summer squash," "Winter squash,"
and "Pumpkin" are not definite botanical names. "Pumpkin," which any
child can tell you is a large vegetable used for jack-o-lanterns and
pies, is applied to longkeeping varieties of C. Moschata, C. pepo,
and a few varieties of C. maxima. Summer squashes are eaten when
they are immature; winter squashes are eaten when mature.
Squashes are hard to confine. A bush-type zucchini will grow well in
a tire planter if kept well watered and fertilized; a vining squash
can be trained up a fence. Summer squashes are week-stemmed, tender
annuals, with large, cucumberlike leaves and seperate male and female
flowers that appear on the same plant. Summer squash usually grows as
a bush, rather than as a vine; the fruits have thin, tender skin and
are generally eaten in the immature stage before the skin hardens.
The most popular of the many kinds of summer squashes are crookneck,
straightneck, scallop, and zucchini.
Source: Vegetable Gardening Encyclopedia by Galahad Books, NYC, NY
1982 Typos by Dorothy Flatman, 1995
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