Butternut:  I grow 3 different varieties of butternuts: a butternut that gets huge and weight over 9 lbs.  These are perfect for pureeing and freezing so you have squash for use through the year or cube and freeze.  Butternuts also are nice in fall displays.   I’m trying for my third year to grow a butternut that is 0.5-1 lb and is orange on the outside.  The plants grow nicely and produce fruit, but the fruit never gets ready.  I grow a “normal” or “average” size butternut.  Butternuts can last up to 3 months in storage.

Acorn: green fruit that looks like a giant acorn.  Carnival is a gorgeous tri-colored squash that is slighly less sweet than the green acorn.

Buttercup: has deep orange flesh, that is fiberless with a rich, sweet flavor.

Kabocha:  The kinds I grow are called sunshine and the flesh is tender, smooth, nutty, fiberless, sweet, and bright orange.  Grey Ghost is a flat gray squash that is around the 15 lb mark and stores really well.

Hubbard:  These can be eaten, but I grow them mainly for fall displays.  I’ve read that they are quite difficult to cut and they recommended you find a concrete floor/pad, climb a ladder, and hurl the hubbard onto the floor to break it open.  I grow green, blue, grey, and red hubbards.  I also have mammoth and small ones.  Hubbards store really well.  They have a sweet, semi-dry, bright orange to yellow, and fiberless flesh.   Red Kuri is really good for pies, soups, and baking as you don’t need to peel it.  The skin is quite thin and will blend in with the puree.

Delicata: the most sought after squash.  People love eating delicata.  It’s very sweet, makes delicious fries, pies, and for stuffing.  Sweet Dumpling is similar to delicata, but looks like a acorn.  Has very sweet, tender, and orange flesh.

Spaghetti squash: eat it like spaghetti!!  I also grow Stripetti which is a cross between a delicata and a spaghetti squash.  A recipe that uses stripetti squash.  It would also be good with some toasted nuts, butter, and brown sugar.

Other squash:

• Georgia Candy Roaster: looks like a giant pink banana.  A unique squash to add to your fall displays.  Lasts up to 5 months in storage.
• Cushaw Squash: they come in many different colors and add some color to fall displays.
• Moranga Squash: a squash from Brazil.  It’s flat, pink, and ribbed.

• Thai Rai Kaw Tok Pumpkin: Flesh is yellow-orange, sweet and flavorful with a smooth texture.

All about winter squash.

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