Gold Nugget

Our earliest variety is Gold Nugget (AAS 1966), an orange-fleshed squash with softball sized fruit from North Dakota State University (NDSU). It is a bush squash, producing 5 or 6 fruits per plant. The fruit should keep 3 to 4 months, however, we have had fruits keep for up to a year (the ones cut open in the photo).

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Buttercup

Our favourite squash is Buttercup (NDSU, 1932), the dark green squash with the bump on the bottom. The flesh is thick, dry and sweet.

Black Forest

Black Forest is a newer squash that looks similar to Buttercup but it is smaller with a smaller bump on the bottom, and has very dry flesh.

Blue Kuri

Blue Kuri is a flattened globe shaped kabocha winter squash with blue-grey skin and sweet thick dry flesh. 2-3lb fruits keep well.

Red Kuri (Hokkaido)

Red Kuri (Hokkaido) is a beautiful orange-red, teardrop-shaped hubbard squash from Japan. May be a bit of crossing in this variety.

Blue Ballet

Blue Ballet is a medium sized grey green hubbard squash with fine textured sweet flesh.

Mandan

Mandan has large orange fruits with sweet dry flesh and plump tasty seeds.

Gete-Okosomin

What a beautiful squash! We had a small patch of these in 2018 that produced a couple dozen fruits, and we are now blessed with an abundant seed supply of these massive squash. All summer long these had my attention, as the vines got quite big, then as the small pale yellow elongated babies started to appear, and then as those babies kept growing and growing! Our fruits ranged from about 2 to 3 feet in length and weighed from about 8 to 25lbs. We had many fruits weighing 24lbs, and the remainder weighing between 10 and 15. Make sure you have plenty of mouths to feed for one of these squash. Or, prepare it the traditional way and dry the squash to preserve it. The squash flesh is thick and brilliant orange. This variety comes from the Miami Nation (territory that is now identified as Indiana, southwest Michigan, and western Ohio) and has been grown by their people throughout the past 5000 years. The current name for this squash comes from an Indigenous language and means “really cool old squash”!

Rouge vif d’Etampes

Rouge vif d’Etampes is the European pumpkin. Cinderella’s coach was one of these large red-orange ribbed flattened fruits. In Europe, pumpkins are used to make cream soup.

Costata Romanesco

Costata Romanesco is a traditional Italian zucchini variety. The prominently ribbed striped grey green fruits have very good flavour. They are usually picked when immature to use raw in salads, or in stir fries. The large mature fruits are great for grating (and then even freezing this way) and using in baking.

Caserta

Caserta zucchini was bred at U of Connecticut in 1949. Early and prolific, smooth fruits, light green with dark green stripes and it is a selection from the Italian zucchini Cocozelle.

Round Zucchini

Round Zucchini has bush plants and produces round fruits which are best harvested when about tennis ball size.

Bennings Green Tint

Bennings Green Tint is a light green patty pan/scallopini type summer squash with large vigorous bush plants. Harvest small light green fruits (as they get larger they turn whiter and are not as tender and delicious for eating) and eat raw or cooked like zucchini or any other summer squash. This variety has been around since about 1914.

Yellow Crookneck

Yellow Crookneck (C) is a summer squash dating back to the early 1800’s. The bushy plants produce curved fruits with a bulbous blossom end. The light yellow fruits are smooth when young, warted when mature.

Vegetable Spaghetti

Vegetable Spaghetti is about as early as Gold Nugget. The flesh is yellow and sweet, and comes out in strings. Boil or bake, remove the flesh and serve with spaghetti sauce.

Acorn

Acorn produces large numbers of small to medium, dark-green ribbed fruits on long vines. Flesh is yellow, sweet and best if eaten within three months of harvest.

Sugar Pumpkin

The standard pie pumpkin is Sugar Pumpkin (1860). The fruits are round and bright orange, and most are in the 4-5 pound range. The roasted seeds make good snack food.

Young’s Beauty

Young’s Beauty is a pumpkin very similar to Sugar Pumpkin but many fruits weigh 10-12 lbs.

Naked-Seeded Pumpkin

Naked-Seeded Pumpkin has 8-12 lb. well-shaped yellow-green fruits with strong stems. The large dark green seeds are completely hulless.