(50-63 days. Heirloom) Dates back to 1914. A very pretty, heavy-yielding patty pan squash which starts out pale green and changes to a smooth white finish when left on the plant. Excellent flavor and fine texture with a slight sweetness. Harvest small when you can still see the green tint. Vigorous 3-4 foot bushes yield an abundance of squash during the season.
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Other Summer Squash
Benning’s Green Tint
Early Crookneck(42-60 days. Heirloom) Bush type plant produces high yields of buttery-yellow squash with a narrow curved neck. Very tender and flavorful. Turns darker yellow as it matures. Excellent fried, steamed, or baked. Best harvested when 8″ long. One of the earliest crookneck squash and keeps producing all summer long.
Early Prolific Straightneck(45-50 days) This 1938 All-America Selection award-winning heirloom squash is still a favorite and for good reason! Thick, firm, fine-grained delicious squash is ready to harvest in just 45 days! Versatile summer squash can be eaten raw, pickled, or cooked in innumerable ways including in sweet breads. Best picked at 4″–7″ or smaller for chic, “baby” squash. If left on the vine, squash may grow so big that it would take two people to carry it!
Patty Pan G Star Green (F1)(42-60 days. F1 Hybrid) Dark green Patty Pan. The smaller this prolific yielder is picked, the shinier it will be, and open plants make picking easy. Patty pan, or scallop squash, is a tender summer squash. The scalloped flying saucer shape makes them a bit of a novelty and a little difficult to figure out how to slice, but they cook and eat much like any other summer squash. Kids are sometimes more tempted to try them, because of their fun shape. You can begin to eat them when they are only a couple of inches in diameter, making them perfect for individual serving.
Patty Pan Y Star Yellow (F1)(42-60 days. F1 Hybrid) Prolific yielder of shiny yellow scalloped squashes, with light green on the blossom end. Amount of green may vary depending on the level of heat and plant stress. Widely adaptable. Open plant for easy harvest.
Tromboncino(55-75 days. Heirloom.) Vining Zucchini Rampicante. Italian squash with a long neck and bulbed end. Rich flavor and good keeping ability. Can even be used as a winter squash if there are too many to eat young. Nice firm meat with all the seeds in the bulb end. Fantastic buttery flavor and fine-grained texture.
Zephyr (F1)(54 days. F1 Hybrid) Precocious, distinctive slender fruits are yellow with faint white stripes and light green blossom ends. Harvest young at 4-6″ for unusually delicious nutty taste and firm texture. Big, open plant is high yielding. Under certain stressful situations, such as hot weather, Zephyr can show some variability in the amount of green at the ends of the fruits. In addition, sometimes the first one or two fruits produced will be yellow with green stripes.