Scallop, Custard White Cucurbita pepo (55 days) This is a nice Italian heirloom strain of “patty pan”-type summer squash that produces flattened disk-shaped fruit with lobes around the edges that are a creamy, off-white color.  When picked young and repeatedly their flavor is tender and creamy with a mild sweetness.  Bush growth habit lends to success when growing in containers. Packet (2 g. ≈ 30 seeds) ...

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Summer Squash, Yellow Crookneck Curcibita pepo (50 days)  A tried and true variety with exceptional productivity of tender, smooth yellow fruits with an intriguing twist. Bush habit helps to save space in the garden. The flavor of this variety is rich and creamy, delightful steamed and mashed with butter! In our 2023 summer squash trials this was everyone's favorite tasting variety both grilled and sauteed. Packet (2 g ≈ 60 seeds) Ounce (≈250 seeds) ...

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Baby Butternut, Burpee’s Butterbush   Curcurbita moschata (75 days)  Excellent early-maturing butternut, with compact vines (3-4 ft).  Flesh is deep reddish-orange, moist and deliciously sweet.  Long keeper.  Yields 1.5 - 4 lb fruits, averaging 4 fruits per plant.  Selection for uniformity is ongoing with this old strain so their may still be some elongated types that we hope to rogue out in future generations of growing seed.  Packet (2 g ~ 40 seeds) Ounce ...

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Black Forest Kabocha Cucurbita maxima (95 days)  A nice uniform kabocha that produces 4-5 fruits averaging 3-4 pounds each. Fruits are gray-green flattened shape with dark orange flesh that is sweet, dry and flaky. They store moderately well until February or March if kept in a dry spot. Delicious baked with butter! Packet (5 g ~ 30 seeds) Ounce ...

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Winter Squash, Butternut clan mix (110 days) This is a diverse mix of butternut type squash that range from Tromboncino types to regular Butternut shapes.  All have good storage qualities and excellent culinary value as cooking and baking squash.  Cucurbita moschata type squash benefit from a 2 week period of post harvest curing that we typically do in a warm greenhouse environment.  SSF WS28: - 3 g (~30 seeds) ...

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Winter Squash, Butternut, Waltham   Cucurbita moschata (110 days)  Solid 9” fruits weigh in at 4-6 pounds and have a very small seed cavity, brilliant orange flesh and a tan skin. Flavor is sweet, smooth and slightly nutty. Excellent for pie. Requires supplemental curing in a greenhouse or warm house post harvest to properly color up and cure. Univ. of Mass. 1956 introduction. Packet (3 g ~ 40 seeds) ounce...

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Honeyboat Delicata Cucurrbita pepo ( 100 days ) This is a charming variant on the Delicata theme with shorter, fatter fruits that are 1-2 lbs with copper skin and green stripes rather than the typical pale yellow with green stripes of the Zepplin Delicata. Grow this for its incredibly sweet flavor and reliable storage qualities. Thin skin can be eaten. Wonderful, steamed, baked, roasted, cut up into bite sized pieces and sauteed, or stuffed. A consistent favorite! Bred by Dr. James Baggett at OSU. Bush habit.  Packet:  2 1/2 g (~40 seeds) 1 oz ...

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Delicata, Zepplin  Cucurbita pepo (100 days)  A much loved 1894 heirloom winter squash that is just the right size for a side dish with dinner. The fruits are 7-10” long, weigh about a pound and possess flesh that is finer-textured, sweeter, and significantly longer keeping than other strains. Packet (2.5 g ≈ 40 seeds) ...

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Winter Squash, Honeynut Cucurbita moschata x C. maxima. (105-110 days) Adorable winter squash bred by Michael Mazourek of Cornell University in collaboration with Stone Barn Center Food and Agriculture chef Dan Barber. Fruits start off as a dark green and meld into a bright honey colored orange when ripe. Sweeter and smaller than a Butternut squash, the perfect size for easy eating. Stores up to around 2 months. Packet (2 ½ g ≈30 seeds)...

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Winter Squash, Kogigu  Cucurbita moschata (105 days) A heavily ribbed Japanese strain with bumpy green skin that turns more buff orange with a whitish bloom (reminiscent of that which forms on plums and some apples) in storage.  It ripens fairly early for a moschata-type squash and is becoming renowned in “foodie” circles for its sweet flesh and thin skin.  Some folks are even grating it raw into salads!  Fruits grow heavy yields of 2 pound cheese wheel style fruits that store well. Very similar to Black Futsu. Packet:  3 g ~ 30 seeds 1 oz ...

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Lower Salmon River Cucurbita maxima (90 days) This PNW heirloom from Idaho has a thick, mottled, salmon-colored rind. Deep orange and sweet flesh make this squash great for pies, soups, or as a side. Grows from 3 to 10 lbs. Harvest before fall rains. Great for storage. A regular taste test winner! SSF Packet( 6g ~ 30 seeds) 1 oz ...

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North Georgia Candy Roaster Cucurbita maxima (95 days) Local to present day North Carolina, the Candy Roaster Squash is known for its sweet, unique flavor, which is the reasoning behind its name. The Cherokee tribes in the southern Appalachians originally cherished this squash for its long shelf life. Despite its odd appearance, many more people have come to treasure it for its unique taste. When fully ripe and stored for several months, it will reach its full flavor potential. A favorite in pies, soups, butters and breads, recipes that utilize this squash do not call for any additional sugar or sweetener, such that many have compared it to a sweet potato   This delicious, unique hubbard-type winter squash was a stand-out open-pollinated variety in terms of dry farmed yield and storability in a dry farmed winter squash variety trial conducted by Alex Stone and Jennifer Wetzel of the Oregon State University Horticulture Department, and is also a top-yielder in Dry Farming Collaborative variety trials. SRF Packet: 5 g (~30 seeds) 1 oz ...

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Sibley   Curcibita Maxima (100-110 days)  The Sibley Squash, which is also known as Pike’s Peak, was obtained from an elderly woman in Van Dinam, Iowa who had grown it for more than fifty years.  Hiram Sibley & Company of Rochester, New York introduced it commercially in 1887.  It is a hubbard type squash with moderately vigorous 12-15 foot vines.  The slate blue teardrop-shaped fruits have very shallow ribs and weigh from 8-10 pounds.  Its medium-thick orange flesh is flavorful and sweet. The flesh becomes drier and richer with storage, reaching its peak right after turn of the New Year.  This seed was grown by Ben Yohai of Wandering Fields Farm in Applegate, Oregon.  Ben also sells the fruits at local growers markets to customers who give it rave reviews.  Part of the Slow Food Movements "Ark of Taste" Heirlooms. Packet: (6 g ≈ 30 seeds) 1 oz ...

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Stella Blue   Cucurbita maxima (100 days) A hokaiddo kabocha type squash with deep orange, flakey sweet flesh. Developed by Bill Reynolds, this variety is an improved baby blue hubbard type, suitable for family dinners. Slate gray skin conceals thick, orange flesh that is smooth, sweet and delicious. Try cutting one in half and filling with rice, onion, garlic, tomatoes and the like and baking it! Selected under dry farmed conditions in Northern CA. Stella Blue was included in variety trials with the Dry Farming Collaborative 2016 – 2018, and yielded an average of 23 lbs per plant, with an average planting density of 34 sqft per plant, on 7 sites in Western Oregon.   Packet (5 g about 20 seeds)  One Ounce (about 130 seeds) ...

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 Sundream Cucurbita Maxima (90 days) Good ideas have to start somewhere…this project started as a taste bud love affair with the excellent variety Sunshine (F1), a delicious orange skinned squash developed by Rob Johnston.  With the dream of culturing this strain into an open pollinated variety, we offer this stabilized (F6) open pollinated strain.  We love the flavor of this productive and tasty squash.  This heirloom of tomorrow in the making is a Siskiyou Seeds farm original bred by Don Tipping An interesting agronomic note on this variety and other cucurbit seeds that we grow here at Siskiyou Seeds is that we have not used floating row covers to protect young plants from cucumber beetle damage (which is standard practice on nearly all small farms in our area). Our aim is to breed for and select for plants that are naturally resistant to cucumber beetles and a decade into doing this it seems to be working!  Open Seed Source Initiative pledged Packet (5 g ≈ 30 seeds) 1 oz ...

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Tromboncino Curcubita moschata (60 days summer squash/ 90 days winter squash) This is a highly unique classic Italian heirloom squash that can be harvested young as a rich, full-flavored summer squash which is much preferred to traditional zucchini by many Italians who call it "zucchini rampicante". Harvested at 8-12" long, it is delicious roasted, grilled, grated raw into salads or stuffed in ravioli. It can also be left to mature as a long keeping winter squash. Related to Butternut squash, Tromboncino has vigorous growing vines that give rise to elongated serpentine fruits that can grow up to 3 feet long. Can be stored and eaten like a winter squash, however its texture is somewhat stringy like a spaghetti squash and not as sweet and even as a Butternut. A real treat to grow and marvel at! Packet: 3 g (~30 seeds) 1 oz ...

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Uncle David’s Dakota Dessert   Cucurbita Maxima (95-105 days)  Uncle David's Dakota Dessert offers deep orange color, thick flesh, rich and sweet flavor, smooth texture, plant vigor and cold-hardiness.  Bred by FFSC farmer David Podoll, it produces solid yields across extreme fluctuations of climate.  It's a favorite for main dishes, pies and other desserts.  Packet (6 g ≈ 30 seeds) 1 oz ...

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