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Squash
Squash

fairytale
fairytale

Musquee de Provence Fairytale pumpkin
This is an old time pumpkin from southern France. It is deeply ribbed and has a very smooth hard surface. It is dark green in color when immature, and as it cures it turns a gorgeous deep mahogany. It is fine grained and well suited for pies.
Firm and fragrant pulp, with a typical nutty taste that characterizes the C. moschata species. It corresponds to the pumpkin Potiron bronze de Montlhéry, cited by Vilmorin (1890).
They are waxy and rotund and resemble Cinderella’s carriage. The Fairytale pumpkin was first introduced to the American market in 1899 by Vaughn’s Seed Store of Chicago. Avg. yield: 2 fruits/plant.

futsu
futsu

Very suitable for cooking. ‘Black Futsu’, another Japanese variety with sweet, nutty flesh. It is sometimes called "Kurokawa Futsu". The fruits are heavily ribbed and dark, black-green when picked, quickly developing a heavy grey bloom, beneath which they ripen to a tawny orange.
The golden orange flesh is delicious with a strong taste similar to hazelnuts. Fruits are large with weights close to 10 pounds. 3-5 pumpkins/plant. Days to Maturity: 105 DAYS
Rave reviews: 37 squash on one plant, irrigated in a tomato bed. Another had 30 fruits from 3 vines, ranging 1-8 lbs.

honeynut
honeynut

Very suitable for cooking. Color-changing squash reveals ripeness Cornell: The roots of Mazourek’s squash reach back to the 1980s at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, where Richard W. Robinson, professor emeritus of horticulture, crossed a buttercup and a butternut squash.
“Michael Mazourek, a plant breeder at Cornell University, takes his cues from cooks to breed new ingredients that are flavorful, nutritious, resilient, and high-yielding. Together, we've collaborated on a number of experimental varieties, including the Honeynut squash, a butternut squash cross that fits in the palm of your hand and has about ten times the sweetness and squash flavor of the workaday butternut.” —Dan Barber, Blue Hill, NYC 85 days. Climbing vine. Space saving bush type plants grow no larger than 4-5’ long bearing 3-5 butternut shaped fruits.

Look for a nitrogen and phosphorus. In the beginning to promote vegetative and root growth. Then a little more towards nitrogen to promote veg growth. And then when you have a pumpkin growing more potassium. Seaweed alone is not enough to sustain the plant and fruit. -post/a>

Sow pumpkin seeds directly into prepared beds or hills in late spring, after your last frost. Or, try what many gardeners in cool climates do, and set out 3-week-old seedlings in late spring. In Zone 6 and warmer, you can delay planting pumpkins until early summer to use space vacated by spring crops, and use container-grown seedlings to get summer-planted pumpkins growing on time. Stop planting pumpkins 14 weeks before your first fall frost. heirloomgardener
Tip: Sow radish seeds around your squash and pumpkin seedlings when you plant them and you shouldn’t have any more problems with squash bugs.thehomestead.guru
CULTURE: Squash can be started indoors or outdoors.
INDOORS: Start in peat pots or 4" plastic pots 3-4 weeks before the last frost. Sow 3-4 seeds per pot.
OUTDOORS: Sow direct when soil is warm to touch and there is no danger of frost.
SOIL: Squash likes well drained, sandy loam soil. pH 5.5 -7.5
FERTILITY: Enrich with compost or well rotted manure before planting. Moisture is needed when forming fruit.
GERMINATION: 5-7 days at 75-82F/24- 28C. Seeds will rot if soil temperature is too cool and wet.
SPACING: Plant bush varieties in hills 3-4 feet apart, rows spaced 6 feet apart. Full vined varieties plant hills 4-5 feet apart, rows spaced 8-10 feet. PESTS: Cucumber beetle will damage young seedlings and flowers causing disease and poor pollination. Control with a mixture of Diatomaceous Earth, row covers, or insect netting. Squash vine borer causes wilting of the vine, the stem will be hollowed out. The only control is spraying for a small black wasp-like moth which lays eggs in a 2 week period when the plant begins to vine. Broad crop rotation also reduces chance of attack.
HARVEST: Pick after vine dies or rind hardens and dulls in colour. Cure in high temperatures and humidity (80F/27C) for a week, then store at 50-59F/10-15C, humidity of 60%. seeds-organic
Another member of the cucurbit family, squash also prefer a soil pH between 5.5 and 7.0.
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