Pumpkins, Squashes and Zucchinis.
Pumpkins, squashes and zucchinis are in the genus Cucurbita which is part of the Cucurbitaceae family. The family also includes watermelons, rockmelons, cucumbers, chokos, gourds, luffas and heaps of other interesting things to try in the garden.
These all produce separate male and female flowers and in most species both are produced on the same plant. All are insect pollinated, predominately by introduced honey bees and different varieties within the same species will readily cross pollinate. Unless there is an isolation in excess of perhaps 500-800m from other plants in the same species then hand pollination should be used ensure see purity.
The genus Cucurbita contains a number of species, members of three of the species are commonly grown in Australia. Any member of one species will readily cross with a member of the same species but should not cross with a member of another species.
That means that any C. maxima may cross with any other C. maxima but shouldn't cross with any C. pepo or C. moschata
HOW TO AVOID CROSSING
Divide pumpkins, squashes and zucchinis into their species group- i.e. they should either be Cucurbita maxima, C. pepo or C. moschata, see below for listing of the varieties with their species names where we have it. Either only grow one from each species or hand pollinate where there is more than one species.
All members of this family, including zucchinis and other squash that are eaten immature must be left to fully mature on the vine before harvest for seed. The seed continues to develop after harvest and fruit should ideally be left for three weeks after harvest before removing seed.
Pumpkins and squash grown for storage can have the seeds removed as they are used. Put the seeds in a non-metallic (or stainless steel) container in a warmish place for a week or so until the pulp has rotted enough to come away from the see. Wash it through a sieve to leave clean seed to dry in a well ventilated place away from direct summer sunlight.
What is the difference between pumpkins, squash and marrows?
Summer Squashes are grown to eat immature like zucchinnis and winter squash are grown to maturity before being eaten or stored.
"Summer Squash, winter squash and pumpkin are three commonly used terms that have left more than a few people confused. All squashes and pumpkins when young and tender, and also when mature." Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth.
We have classified them into two groups, those meant to be harvested at maturity (Pumpkins, Winter Squash and some marrows) and those meant for eating immature (Summer Squash and Zucchini's) Marrows are grouped in the second group if there is a reference to them being used immature and in the first group if there is not one.
Pumpkins and winter squash
Atlantic Giant. (C. maxima) Grows to a very big size and this is the one usually grown for competitions. Originally grown for cattle and pig fodder, its best cooking use is in soup. {Eden}
Dills Atlantic Giant A strain of the above. {Diggers}
Baby Blue (C. maxima) Good flavour and keeping qualities, round fruit to 15cm, blue/grey skin, orange flesh [Eden] {NGS} SSN98--2
Blue Ballet (C. pepo?) {Phoenix}
Blue Hubbard (C. maxima) Blue-grey warted fruit to 30cm and up to 10kg., thick dry yellow-orange flesh, sweet and productive, good keeper. [Eden]* {Phoenix} {NGS} SSN98--1
Black Prince Grey, medium sized fruit, orange flesh, compact grower [Eden]S
Blue Banana (C. maxima) Prolific Banana shaped fruit up to 50cm long with grey/blue skin with orange flesh and good flavour. {Eden} {NGS}
Bohemian (C. maxima) An early, productive pumpkin with excellent flavour that stores well. {Diggers}
Bush Table Gem (C. pepo) Non running plants with good crops of green acorn style fruit. Good taste. [NGS]
Butternut- Hercules (C. moschata) A thick necked butternut that crops well and withstands adverse weather. [NGS]
Butternut- Waltham (C. moschata) Small-medium sized, pear shaped fruit are excellent keepers and very good flavour. Small area of seeds in fruit means a lot of flesh. {Eden}* {NGS} SSN98--3
Butternut- Large Waltham {Phoenix}
Butternut- Long SSN98--1
Chestnut (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Cinderella (C. pepo) Round to 25cm, small bush, bright orange skin, excellent flavour. [Eden]*
Corn Pumpkin SSN98--1
Crown Prince (C. maxima) This medium sized good keeper produces grey skinned fruit with deep orange flesh. Excellent taste and heavy yield. [NGS]
Cow Pumpkin (C. maxima) Huge exhibition sized, with orange flesh, used in soups and scones as well as stock feed. [Eden]*
Golden Hubbard (C. maxima) Round warted orange squash with pointed ends. Orange sweet and dry flesh. Good keeper, trailing vine.
[Eden]* SSN98--1
Delicata (C. pepo) Small cylindrical very ornamental fruit are excellent for stuffing, needs hot weather. {Phoenix}
Gold Nugget (C. maxima) Fine textured sweet, light orange flesh; small flat globe shaped fruit; bushy habit, prolific bearing, good keeper.
[Eden]* SSN98--1
Golden Nugget {NGS} {Phoenix}
Golden (C. pepo) Bright golden fruits, medium long cylindrical shape, prolific and good flavour. [Eden]*
Golden Crookneck (C. pepo) Attractive and tasty, the golden fruit are best picked when 10-12cm long, Fruit are pear shaped with a distinctive bent neck. [NGS]
Green Tint (C. pepo) Scalloped patty pan squash, pale green, harvest 75-100mm, fine texture, medium sized bush, very productive over a long period, popular traditional variety for home gardens. [Eden]*
Green Warted Hubbard (C. maxima) Medium sized round warted fruit with dark green skin. Flesh a deep orange. Excellent taste and keeping qualities. [NGS]
Hartley's Ironbark (C. maxima) A special eating one , it's very good, a dry yellow-orange variety. [Eden] {NGS}
Ironbark's- Eden and Diggers have two different Ironbark pumpkins.
Ironbark (C. maxima) Oval shaped fruit, dark grey-green warted skin, yellow orange flesh, excellent storage. [Eden]?
Ironbark (C. maxima) Large solid fruit with knobby very dark green skin. Excellent keeper and flavour. Skin not as hard to cut as old timers say Ironbark was but I'm told that the eating qualities are very similar (and Ironbarks are the ones most spoken of by the old-timers) {Diggers}
Jack Be Little (C. pepo) Tiny 5-7cm fruit. Sweet orange flesh, deeply ribbed flattened orange fruit, delightful miniature, appealing table decoration and craft, shelf life to 12 months, dried on the vine. [Eden]*
Jack O' Lantern (Halloween) (C. pepo) Orange rind and pale orange flesh to 25cm, good cooking and stores well. not uniform shape. [Eden]*
Jap (C. moschata) Excellent firm bright yellow flesh, known in the USA from 1860's, popular in Australian hotter climates. [Eden]S Not suited to cooler areas {NGS}
Jarrahdale (C. maxima) Large grey slightly ribbed fruit on a large vine. Originated in W.A. and does well in Vic. Good keeper and good flavour. {Eden}* {NGS} SSN98--1
Kabocha SSN98--1
Kentucky Wonder SSN98--1
Kumi-Kumi SSN98--1
Long White (C. pepo) Long tapered creamy fruits to 40cm., fine texture, prolific bush type. [Eden]*
Minikin (C. pepo) Small mini pumpkin with a rich dry flesh. Ideal as a single serve or as a decoration. Long keeping with orange skin and typically 10cm across. [NGS]
Native Cat Gramma
North Qld Gramma Trombone shaped with long neck, sweet and used for pies, scones and soup, short keeper. [Eden]*
Paw Paw (C. moschata) Sweet thick deep yellow flesh with nutty flavour, trailing vine, fruit to 1kg, appearance of paw paw. Disease resistant.
Pink Banana Jumbo (C. maxima) Orange flesh, dry sweet and not stringy, up to 15kg and cylindrical shape to 75cm long, smooth dark pink-orange skin when mature, slightly curved, limited storage. [Eden]* Fruit can reach up to a metre and weigh up to 20kg Excellent eating with dry sweet flesh. [NGS]
Queensland Blue (C. maxima) Large pumpkin, dark slate grey heavily ribbed skin. Sweet, deep orange flesh, Top eating pumpkin. [Eden]* {Phoenix} {NGS} SSN98--4
Red Hubbard (C. maxima) Small (20cm) rounded bright red/orange fruit with excellent taste and keeping qualities. [NGS]
Red Kuri C. maxima Teardrop shaped small red pumpkins with outstanding flavour. [Diggers]
Red Warren Pumpkin SSN98--1
Rice Marrow (C. pepo) Excellent flavour, heavy cropping, skin smooth and hard with orange flesh, good keeper. [Eden]*
Riesenmelonen SSN98--1
Rouge vive d'Estampes C. maxima This French pumpkin variety produces beautiful burnt orange , decorative, medium-sized fruit with bright orange flesh. [Diggers]
Small Sugar (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Special Rio SSN98--1
Sweet Red Skin SSN98--1
Table Queen (C. pepo) Heavy cropping, acorn shaped fruit to 14cm, dark green rind with thick dry orange flesh, ideal for baking. Semi bush type, allow to fully mature before harvesting. [Eden]*
Triamble (C. maxima) An old Australian favourite, grey coloured three sectioned fruit with sweet dry orange flesh and excellent keeper. {Phoenix}
Trombone SSN98--1
Tuffy Acorn (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Turkish Turbin (C. maxima) Unusual pumpkin that gets its name from its appearance, like a Turks turban. Described in 1845 and spoken fondly of by some of the old-timers. Quite decorative. {Eden}* Turks Turban Keeps well and has excellent taste. [NGS]
Vegetable Spaghetti (C. pepo) as above {NGS} {Phoenix}
Spaghetti Squash (C. pepo) Medium sized, oval shaped creamy on a medium sized trailing vine. When skin changes form yellow to buff bake or boil and use the spaghetti like flesh as you would use spaghetti. {Eden}* {Diggers} SSN98--1
Warty Corn Squash SSN98--1
Windsor Black (C. maxima) {NGS} No seed till Sept 1999.
Worlds Largest (C. maxima) A strain of Dills Atlantic {Diggers}
Summer Squash & zucchinis
Yaccato SSN98--1
Summer Squashes and Zucchinis
Black Zucchini (C. pepo) Early bearing uniform dark green, fine quality, bush type, cylindrical fruit. Released in 1931. [Eden]*
Black (Zucchini) (C. pepo) {NGS} {Phoenix}
Black Beauty Zucchini (C. pepo) {Diggers}
Cocozelle Fine flavoured long smooth ridged fruit to 20cm, dark green with light stripes, bush plant. In Australia in 1920's [Eden]*
Costata Romanesco (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Crookneck Early Summer (C. pepo) The yellow fruit are very ornamental and it also has good flavour {Diggers}
Dark Green Button Squash SSN98--1
Early Golden Summer Crookneck (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Early White Bush Scalloped (C. pepo) Flat fruit borne in profusion on bushy plant. Best picked when young [Eden]*
Fordhook (C. pepo) Green lightly speckled fruit, consistent yield.
Released in 1942 [Eden]S
Gem Squash SSN98--1
Golden Arch Crookneck (C. pepo) Butter yellow, attractive arched neck, almost no warts, pick at 15cm, high yielding. [Eden]*
Long White Bush (C. pepo) The true Marrow on a compact non running bush. Fruit white and around 40cm at maturity. Eat as Zucchini when small. [NGS]
Perennial Squash (Chilacayote) (C. ficifolia) Only perennial in frost free areas. Fruit very sweet to base ball size very productive. Info wanted on culinary uses of mature fruit. Won't cross with any other squash or pumpkins.
Rondo de Nice (C. pepo) An excellent zucchini, with some resistance to mildew and a long season. Good flavoured fruit. {Eden}
Maltese (C. pepo) Used immature as a pale yellow skinned zucchini, matures as elongated pear shaped marrow. [Eden]
Minipak (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Round Robin (C. pepo?) Prolific open pollinate variety with spherical fruit best picked at 10-12cm across, Tasty. [NGS]
Tondo Chiara di Nizza Zucchini SSN98--1
Round Zucchini (C. pepo) Pale, mottled green, egg shaped fruit. Pick when young. [Eden]*
Diggers The Diggers Club
105 Latrobe Parade
Dromana 3936
03 5987 1877
[email protected]
NGS New Gippsland Seeds and Bulbs
P.O. Box 1
Silvan 3795
03 9737 9560
Eden
Eden Seeds
MS 905
Lower Beachmont 4211
07 55331107
Phoenix Phoenix Seeds
Box 207
Snug 7054
03 6267 9663
SSN9898 Seed Savers Network
P.O. Box 975
Byron Bay 2481
02 6685 6624
[email protected]
The Seed Savers Network are a group dedicated to the preservation of the diversity of plant species we rely on for our food production. Members grow and maintain endangered varieties and can offer propagation material in their newsletter. The preservation of the diversity needs more people. It shouldn't have to be thought of as a commitment it is often a case of growing and maintaining varieties that were often selected for home gardeners rather than commercial agriculture
References- Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth, Eden Seeds Catalogue
1998-99, Diggers Catalogue, 1997
Non-profit groups such as garden groups, organic groups, permaculture groups or similar are encouraged to distribute this material by computer printouts or photo-stating. Groups are encouraged to make their own pamphlets to photocopy and sell for profits for their group. It is asked that anyone intending to use this information in commercially published form ask the permission of Neil Barraclough RMB 1477 Stratford 3862
Copyright 30/3/2002 16/7/99 14/08/08
Pumpkins, squashes and zucchinis are in the genus Cucurbita which is part of the Cucurbitaceae family. The family also includes watermelons, rockmelons, cucumbers, chokos, gourds, luffas and heaps of other interesting things to try in the garden.
These all produce separate male and female flowers and in most species both are produced on the same plant. All are insect pollinated, predominately by introduced honey bees and different varieties within the same species will readily cross pollinate. Unless there is an isolation in excess of perhaps 500-800m from other plants in the same species then hand pollination should be used ensure see purity.
The genus Cucurbita contains a number of species, members of three of the species are commonly grown in Australia. Any member of one species will readily cross with a member of the same species but should not cross with a member of another species.
That means that any C. maxima may cross with any other C. maxima but shouldn't cross with any C. pepo or C. moschata
HOW TO AVOID CROSSING
Divide pumpkins, squashes and zucchinis into their species group- i.e. they should either be Cucurbita maxima, C. pepo or C. moschata, see below for listing of the varieties with their species names where we have it. Either only grow one from each species or hand pollinate where there is more than one species.
All members of this family, including zucchinis and other squash that are eaten immature must be left to fully mature on the vine before harvest for seed. The seed continues to develop after harvest and fruit should ideally be left for three weeks after harvest before removing seed.
Pumpkins and squash grown for storage can have the seeds removed as they are used. Put the seeds in a non-metallic (or stainless steel) container in a warmish place for a week or so until the pulp has rotted enough to come away from the see. Wash it through a sieve to leave clean seed to dry in a well ventilated place away from direct summer sunlight.
What is the difference between pumpkins, squash and marrows?
Summer Squashes are grown to eat immature like zucchinnis and winter squash are grown to maturity before being eaten or stored.
"Summer Squash, winter squash and pumpkin are three commonly used terms that have left more than a few people confused. All squashes and pumpkins when young and tender, and also when mature." Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth.
We have classified them into two groups, those meant to be harvested at maturity (Pumpkins, Winter Squash and some marrows) and those meant for eating immature (Summer Squash and Zucchini's) Marrows are grouped in the second group if there is a reference to them being used immature and in the first group if there is not one.
Pumpkins and winter squash
Atlantic Giant. (C. maxima) Grows to a very big size and this is the one usually grown for competitions. Originally grown for cattle and pig fodder, its best cooking use is in soup. {Eden}
Dills Atlantic Giant A strain of the above. {Diggers}
Baby Blue (C. maxima) Good flavour and keeping qualities, round fruit to 15cm, blue/grey skin, orange flesh [Eden] {NGS} SSN98--2
Blue Ballet (C. pepo?) {Phoenix}
Blue Hubbard (C. maxima) Blue-grey warted fruit to 30cm and up to 10kg., thick dry yellow-orange flesh, sweet and productive, good keeper. [Eden]* {Phoenix} {NGS} SSN98--1
Black Prince Grey, medium sized fruit, orange flesh, compact grower [Eden]S
Blue Banana (C. maxima) Prolific Banana shaped fruit up to 50cm long with grey/blue skin with orange flesh and good flavour. {Eden} {NGS}
Bohemian (C. maxima) An early, productive pumpkin with excellent flavour that stores well. {Diggers}
Bush Table Gem (C. pepo) Non running plants with good crops of green acorn style fruit. Good taste. [NGS]
Butternut- Hercules (C. moschata) A thick necked butternut that crops well and withstands adverse weather. [NGS]
Butternut- Waltham (C. moschata) Small-medium sized, pear shaped fruit are excellent keepers and very good flavour. Small area of seeds in fruit means a lot of flesh. {Eden}* {NGS} SSN98--3
Butternut- Large Waltham {Phoenix}
Butternut- Long SSN98--1
Chestnut (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Cinderella (C. pepo) Round to 25cm, small bush, bright orange skin, excellent flavour. [Eden]*
Corn Pumpkin SSN98--1
Crown Prince (C. maxima) This medium sized good keeper produces grey skinned fruit with deep orange flesh. Excellent taste and heavy yield. [NGS]
Cow Pumpkin (C. maxima) Huge exhibition sized, with orange flesh, used in soups and scones as well as stock feed. [Eden]*
Golden Hubbard (C. maxima) Round warted orange squash with pointed ends. Orange sweet and dry flesh. Good keeper, trailing vine.
[Eden]* SSN98--1
Delicata (C. pepo) Small cylindrical very ornamental fruit are excellent for stuffing, needs hot weather. {Phoenix}
Gold Nugget (C. maxima) Fine textured sweet, light orange flesh; small flat globe shaped fruit; bushy habit, prolific bearing, good keeper.
[Eden]* SSN98--1
Golden Nugget {NGS} {Phoenix}
Golden (C. pepo) Bright golden fruits, medium long cylindrical shape, prolific and good flavour. [Eden]*
Golden Crookneck (C. pepo) Attractive and tasty, the golden fruit are best picked when 10-12cm long, Fruit are pear shaped with a distinctive bent neck. [NGS]
Green Tint (C. pepo) Scalloped patty pan squash, pale green, harvest 75-100mm, fine texture, medium sized bush, very productive over a long period, popular traditional variety for home gardens. [Eden]*
Green Warted Hubbard (C. maxima) Medium sized round warted fruit with dark green skin. Flesh a deep orange. Excellent taste and keeping qualities. [NGS]
Hartley's Ironbark (C. maxima) A special eating one , it's very good, a dry yellow-orange variety. [Eden] {NGS}
Ironbark's- Eden and Diggers have two different Ironbark pumpkins.
Ironbark (C. maxima) Oval shaped fruit, dark grey-green warted skin, yellow orange flesh, excellent storage. [Eden]?
Ironbark (C. maxima) Large solid fruit with knobby very dark green skin. Excellent keeper and flavour. Skin not as hard to cut as old timers say Ironbark was but I'm told that the eating qualities are very similar (and Ironbarks are the ones most spoken of by the old-timers) {Diggers}
Jack Be Little (C. pepo) Tiny 5-7cm fruit. Sweet orange flesh, deeply ribbed flattened orange fruit, delightful miniature, appealing table decoration and craft, shelf life to 12 months, dried on the vine. [Eden]*
Jack O' Lantern (Halloween) (C. pepo) Orange rind and pale orange flesh to 25cm, good cooking and stores well. not uniform shape. [Eden]*
Jap (C. moschata) Excellent firm bright yellow flesh, known in the USA from 1860's, popular in Australian hotter climates. [Eden]S Not suited to cooler areas {NGS}
Jarrahdale (C. maxima) Large grey slightly ribbed fruit on a large vine. Originated in W.A. and does well in Vic. Good keeper and good flavour. {Eden}* {NGS} SSN98--1
Kabocha SSN98--1
Kentucky Wonder SSN98--1
Kumi-Kumi SSN98--1
Long White (C. pepo) Long tapered creamy fruits to 40cm., fine texture, prolific bush type. [Eden]*
Minikin (C. pepo) Small mini pumpkin with a rich dry flesh. Ideal as a single serve or as a decoration. Long keeping with orange skin and typically 10cm across. [NGS]
Native Cat Gramma
North Qld Gramma Trombone shaped with long neck, sweet and used for pies, scones and soup, short keeper. [Eden]*
Paw Paw (C. moschata) Sweet thick deep yellow flesh with nutty flavour, trailing vine, fruit to 1kg, appearance of paw paw. Disease resistant.
Pink Banana Jumbo (C. maxima) Orange flesh, dry sweet and not stringy, up to 15kg and cylindrical shape to 75cm long, smooth dark pink-orange skin when mature, slightly curved, limited storage. [Eden]* Fruit can reach up to a metre and weigh up to 20kg Excellent eating with dry sweet flesh. [NGS]
Queensland Blue (C. maxima) Large pumpkin, dark slate grey heavily ribbed skin. Sweet, deep orange flesh, Top eating pumpkin. [Eden]* {Phoenix} {NGS} SSN98--4
Red Hubbard (C. maxima) Small (20cm) rounded bright red/orange fruit with excellent taste and keeping qualities. [NGS]
Red Kuri C. maxima Teardrop shaped small red pumpkins with outstanding flavour. [Diggers]
Red Warren Pumpkin SSN98--1
Rice Marrow (C. pepo) Excellent flavour, heavy cropping, skin smooth and hard with orange flesh, good keeper. [Eden]*
Riesenmelonen SSN98--1
Rouge vive d'Estampes C. maxima This French pumpkin variety produces beautiful burnt orange , decorative, medium-sized fruit with bright orange flesh. [Diggers]
Small Sugar (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Special Rio SSN98--1
Sweet Red Skin SSN98--1
Table Queen (C. pepo) Heavy cropping, acorn shaped fruit to 14cm, dark green rind with thick dry orange flesh, ideal for baking. Semi bush type, allow to fully mature before harvesting. [Eden]*
Triamble (C. maxima) An old Australian favourite, grey coloured three sectioned fruit with sweet dry orange flesh and excellent keeper. {Phoenix}
Trombone SSN98--1
Tuffy Acorn (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Turkish Turbin (C. maxima) Unusual pumpkin that gets its name from its appearance, like a Turks turban. Described in 1845 and spoken fondly of by some of the old-timers. Quite decorative. {Eden}* Turks Turban Keeps well and has excellent taste. [NGS]
Vegetable Spaghetti (C. pepo) as above {NGS} {Phoenix}
Spaghetti Squash (C. pepo) Medium sized, oval shaped creamy on a medium sized trailing vine. When skin changes form yellow to buff bake or boil and use the spaghetti like flesh as you would use spaghetti. {Eden}* {Diggers} SSN98--1
Warty Corn Squash SSN98--1
Windsor Black (C. maxima) {NGS} No seed till Sept 1999.
Worlds Largest (C. maxima) A strain of Dills Atlantic {Diggers}
Summer Squash & zucchinis
Yaccato SSN98--1
Summer Squashes and Zucchinis
Black Zucchini (C. pepo) Early bearing uniform dark green, fine quality, bush type, cylindrical fruit. Released in 1931. [Eden]*
Black (Zucchini) (C. pepo) {NGS} {Phoenix}
Black Beauty Zucchini (C. pepo) {Diggers}
Cocozelle Fine flavoured long smooth ridged fruit to 20cm, dark green with light stripes, bush plant. In Australia in 1920's [Eden]*
Costata Romanesco (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Crookneck Early Summer (C. pepo) The yellow fruit are very ornamental and it also has good flavour {Diggers}
Dark Green Button Squash SSN98--1
Early Golden Summer Crookneck (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Early White Bush Scalloped (C. pepo) Flat fruit borne in profusion on bushy plant. Best picked when young [Eden]*
Fordhook (C. pepo) Green lightly speckled fruit, consistent yield.
Released in 1942 [Eden]S
Gem Squash SSN98--1
Golden Arch Crookneck (C. pepo) Butter yellow, attractive arched neck, almost no warts, pick at 15cm, high yielding. [Eden]*
Long White Bush (C. pepo) The true Marrow on a compact non running bush. Fruit white and around 40cm at maturity. Eat as Zucchini when small. [NGS]
Perennial Squash (Chilacayote) (C. ficifolia) Only perennial in frost free areas. Fruit very sweet to base ball size very productive. Info wanted on culinary uses of mature fruit. Won't cross with any other squash or pumpkins.
Rondo de Nice (C. pepo) An excellent zucchini, with some resistance to mildew and a long season. Good flavoured fruit. {Eden}
Maltese (C. pepo) Used immature as a pale yellow skinned zucchini, matures as elongated pear shaped marrow. [Eden]
Minipak (C. pepo) {Phoenix}
Round Robin (C. pepo?) Prolific open pollinate variety with spherical fruit best picked at 10-12cm across, Tasty. [NGS]
Tondo Chiara di Nizza Zucchini SSN98--1
Round Zucchini (C. pepo) Pale, mottled green, egg shaped fruit. Pick when young. [Eden]*
Diggers The Diggers Club
105 Latrobe Parade
Dromana 3936
03 5987 1877
[email protected]
NGS New Gippsland Seeds and Bulbs
P.O. Box 1
Silvan 3795
03 9737 9560
Eden
Eden Seeds
MS 905
Lower Beachmont 4211
07 55331107
Phoenix Phoenix Seeds
Box 207
Snug 7054
03 6267 9663
SSN9898 Seed Savers Network
P.O. Box 975
Byron Bay 2481
02 6685 6624
[email protected]
The Seed Savers Network are a group dedicated to the preservation of the diversity of plant species we rely on for our food production. Members grow and maintain endangered varieties and can offer propagation material in their newsletter. The preservation of the diversity needs more people. It shouldn't have to be thought of as a commitment it is often a case of growing and maintaining varieties that were often selected for home gardeners rather than commercial agriculture
References- Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth, Eden Seeds Catalogue
1998-99, Diggers Catalogue, 1997
Non-profit groups such as garden groups, organic groups, permaculture groups or similar are encouraged to distribute this material by computer printouts or photo-stating. Groups are encouraged to make their own pamphlets to photocopy and sell for profits for their group. It is asked that anyone intending to use this information in commercially published form ask the permission of Neil Barraclough RMB 1477 Stratford 3862
Copyright 30/3/2002 16/7/99 14/08/08