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WINTERSQUASH & GOURD

WINTERSQUASH & GOURD

WINTERSQUASH & GOURD

Product catalog summary
Overview: This document is a catalog from Seeds by Design Inc., focusing on various types of winter squash and gourds. It provides detailed descriptions of different varieties, highlighting their characteristics and recommended uses.
Varieties and Specifications:
  • Piñata F1: Matures in 85 days, features ivory cream skin with dark green stripes, and offers a sweet potato-like flavor with nutty taste and good storage capabilities.
  • Pilgrim F1: A hybrid butternut squash known for strong crack resistance, uniform fruit size, and suitability for high-density planting.
  • Orange Magic F1: A baby orange Hubbard squash maturing in 85 days, with sweet orange nutty flesh, ideal for roadside markets and home gardens.
  • Table Princess F1: Matures in 70 days, produces medium-small dark green acorn-shaped fruit, known for its meaty and sweet flesh.
  • Marina de Chioggia: An Italian heirloom turban-type squash with warts, known for its unique appearance and flavor, suitable for coastal production.
  • Trimable: An Australian heirloom with a shelf life of up to 2 years, recognized for its flavor and flesh quality.
  • Blue Magic F1: A miniature hybrid Blue Hubbard squash, noted for its fine-grained, tasty flesh.
  • Jade F1: A dark green Kabocha/buttercup squash with superior eating quality and extended storage life.
  • Orange Dawn F1: Features chestnut flavor and bright orange rind, maturing in 90 days, with high vitamin C content.
  • Baby Bottle: A miniature version of Bottle gourd, maturing in 120 days, suitable for painting or carving.
  • Festival F1: A hybrid winter squash with superior flesh quality and ornamental qualities, yielding tri-colored fruit.
Recommendations: The catalog advises selecting specific varieties based on market needs, such as roadside markets, home gardens, and commercial production, emphasizing maturity time, flavor, and storage capabilities.
Conclusion: Seeds by Design Inc. provides a diverse range of winter squash and gourds, each with unique characteristics and uses, offering detailed information to assist growers in selecting the best varieties for their needs.
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Catalog excerpts

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Black Green Green Mottled White & Green Dark Orange Dark Green White & Green Dark Green Dark Green Light Green Dark Green Light Green Light Green Green Mottled Semi Bush Semi Bush Semi Bush Semi Vine Semi Vine Semi Bush Semi Vine Semi Bush Semi Vine Semi Vine Semi Vine Plant Type Orange, Green, and yellow striped hybrid spaghetti. Extra long fruit to increase tonage. Triangular heirloom squash with dry sweet flesh, perfect for baking, a great novelty. Excellent yielding acorn with PM tolerance. Fruit are classic shaped and tasty. Graceful swan necked gourds with many uses. Elongated striped fruit with fine grained very sweet flesh. Excellent eating quality. Butternut Supreme type with crack tolerance and storage ability. Blue Magic's deep-orange sister. A mini orange hubbard with decorative use also. An orange buttercup with high yields and excellent shelf life. Italian heirloom which has great dark green skin warted turban is great in mixtures. Very nice, powdery mildew tolerant, heart shaped, multi colored acorn. Sets in clusters. A true semi bush green kubocha type dry flesh with very nutty flavor. Larger, almost four pound fruit with crack resistance camparable to Early Butternut. Dark green excellent flesh quality sibling to Orange and Blue Magic. Golden skinned Fi spaghetti which has very concentrated set and high yields Tri-colored green, yellow, & white Carnival type which has uniform fruit, colors very early. Unique two to three foot long curved handles. Excellent ornamental use. Slightly smaller version of Pilgrim with added powdery mildew tolerance. Dark green buttercup fruit which have sweet flavor and good storage. All the flavor of hubbard squash with out the size commitment. Ornamental value also. Apple shaped covered in warts, unique new gourd. Miniature bottle gourd which sets in concentrated clusters. True large apple shaped novelty gourd. Excellent for crafts. 4599 McDERMOTT RD. P.O.BOX 602 MAXWELL CA 95955 PHONE: 530-438-2126 FAX: 530-438-2171 Speckled Swan Extra Long Dipper Skin Color Baby Bottle Fruit Size Fruit Weight WINTERSQUASH & GOURD

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Baby Bottle Baby Bottle Our hybrid winter squash Festival is in the 2 pound size, superior flesh quality with dramatic flavor improvement when compared to acorns, plus has ornamental qualities as well. Vine is semi bush, yielding an abundance of delightful tri colored fruit for fall use or short-term storage. 120 days to maturity. Miniature version of Bottle gourd, 6 to 7 inch light bulb fruits. Must be planted early in a shorter season since it is a long season gourd but well worth the effort. Vines are prolific and set concentrated clusters of gourds for painting or carving. Is our newest F1...

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Big Chief FI Many of our customers have been requesting a larger fruited vining hybrid Butternut that is comparable to Butternut Supreme. The fruit are four to five pounds and has powdery mildew tolerance. This new winter squash hybrid will be an excellent addition to any customer's product line. Try it for next season. ( ^ Vermicelli Fi Ninety days to maturity. Bush vines for high density planting, rounded cylindrical yellow to buff tan fruits, eight to ten inch long fruit. Two to three fruit per plant, ready to harvest when skin becomes hardened, keeps up to six months, boil whole or bake....

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Long Island Cheese Table Gold Table Gold Very productive compact dark green bush plants, excellent fruit set, fifty days for light yellow nutty tasting three inch fruits, eighty days for five inch golden yellow winter Acorn fruits. Grown with other colored Acorns Table Gold makes a very attractive bin mixture. Long Island Cheese Ninety days to maturity. Flattened, ribbed, buff colored fruits, with deep orange, sweet flesh, excellent in pies, average weight is eight pounds. Tan fruits store well, and are named for its resemblance to a wheel of cheese. Winter Harvest Blend With gardens and farm...

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Baby Bottle Baby Bottle Our hybrid winter squash Festival is in the 2 pound size, superior flesh quality with dramatic flavor improvement when compared to acorns, plus has ornamental qualities as well. Vine is semi bush, yielding an abundance of delightful tri colored fruit for fall use or short-term storage. 120 days to maturity. Miniature version of Bottle gourd, 6 to 7 inch light bulb fruits. Must be planted early in a shorter season since it is a long season gourd but well worth the effort. Vines are prolific and set concentrated clusters of gourds for painting or carving. Is our newest F1...

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Black Green Green Mottled White & Green Dark Orange Dark Green White & Green Dark Green Dark Green Light Green Dark Green Light Green Light Green Green Mottled Semi Bush Semi Bush Semi Bush Semi Vine Semi Vine Semi Bush Semi Vine Semi Bush Semi Vine Semi Vine Semi Vine Plant Type Orange, Green, and yellow striped hybrid spaghetti. Extra long fruit to increase tonage. Triangular heirloom squash with dry sweet flesh, perfect for baking, a great novelty. Excellent yielding acorn with PM tolerance. Fruit are classic shaped and tasty. Graceful swan necked gourds with many uses. Elongated striped fruit...

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