7 Squash Varieties to Add to Your Fall Crop
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Betternut 900 from Rupp Seeds
Disease Package: Powdery mildew (Px); Weight: 3 lbs.; Days to Maturity: 80; Region(s): Midwest; North
Other: Boxing variety; uniform fruit shape. -
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Cash Machine from Enza Zaden
Disease Package: Intermediate resistance to Px, papaya ringspot virus (PRSV), watermelon mosaic virus (WMV), and zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV); Region(s): East Coast
Other: 'Cash Machine' produces very high quality, medium-dark green zucchini with light flecking and a small blossom scar. 'Cash Machine' sets fruit prolifically on a compact to medium, upright, semi-open plant, and when combined with its excellent disease package, promises to deliver high yields of uniform fruits. -
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Grandprize from Syngenta
Disease Package: Intermediate resistance to Px, WMV, and ZMYV;
Days to Maturity: 42; Region(s): U.S. squash producing regions
Other: ‘Grandprize’ has glossy, deep-yellow fruit for consumer appeal, with strong outer walls to withstand harvest, packing, and transport. It also has an erect, semi-open plant with reduced spines, great plant vigor, and arch for improved harvestability. -
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Green Machine F1 Organic from Vitalis and Harris Seeds
Disease Package: Intermediate resistance to Px, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), WMV, ZYMV; Days to Maturity: 44; Region(s): All U.S.
Other: High yielding, uniform medium-green lightly flecked zucchini; open-bush plant habit for easy harvest. -
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GVS 48025 F1 from Golden Valley Seed
Disease Package: Intermediate resistance to downy mildew and powdery mildew, WMV, and ZYMV; Length: 5.5 to 6 inches; Days to Maturity: 45; Region(s): U.S., Middle East, Europe, North Africa, Brazil
Other: This plant has a bush that is large and upright. The fruit is bulbous, elongated, and cylindrical. The interior is greenish white. Exterior coloring is light green. -
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Honeybaby F1 from Seeds by Design
Disease Package: Px; cracking; Weight: 1 to 2 lbs.; Days to Maturity: 90 to 100; Region(s): All U.S., especially the heartland
Other: This winter squash has a compact, semi-bush plant habit. -
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SV0474YG from Seminis
Disease Package: High resistance to CMV, WMV, and ZYMV; Intermediate resistance to Px; Days to Maturity: 40; Region(s): Eastern U.S.
Other: The biotech variety, SV0474YG, has a high percentage of marketable fruit and excellent uniformity of fruit with a cylindrical shape.
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Betternut 900 from Rupp Seeds
Cash Machine from Enza Zaden
Grandprize from Syngenta
Green Machine F1 Organic from Vitalis and Harris Seeds
GVS 48025 F1 from Golden Valley Seed
Honeybaby F1 from Seeds by Design
SV0474YG from Seminis
Compare these squash varieties’ disease packages; regions; and other features to find the right one for you.
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Carol Miller is Editor of American Vegetable Grower. See all author stories here.