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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  Posted by Michael
Prothro KOOK-NET  :þ Mike's Resort BBS,
Fayetteville,AR,(501)521-8920þ  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster
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