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