Butternut Squash Varieties

Little Dipper is a “mini” traditional-shaped butternut squash that can even be called personal-sized! It weighs in at about 2 pounds per fruit. Its plant habit is full vine with vigorous growth and has potential to produce a high amount of very uniform...

Each with a slight teardrop-shape. Red Kuri matures fruits that reach 10 lbs. A delicious Japanese winter squash. The golden flesh is smooth, dry, sweet and rich; a great yielding and keeping variety.

The Buttercup Burgess is a relatively early maturing winter squash. Good sweet flesh. A great squash that keeps well. This squash plant is bushy and fairly compact.

Produces high yields and is easy to grow. An old time favorite and great for markets. Benning's Green Tint is a scallop-shaped fruit with deliciously tender and good quality flesh.

This variety is great picked small and used as summer squash, or let ripen and use for winter storage. The fruits are white and on the large side for an acorn, weighing in at 2-3 lb.

The perfect time to pick the Yellow crookneck is when its young and about 6 inches in size. The inside will be very tender with a creamy consistency. A perfect summer squash, with a mild, sweet and full flavor taste.

Harvest this squash at 12-14 inches long but are more tender and succulent when they are 5-6 inches long. The Early Prolific Straightneck is a yellow, straight-necked type, summer squash with fruits that taper towards the stem end and are a bright yellow...

The flesh of this heirloom acorn is a sweet golden yellow that turns more orange in storage and the rind is dark green and ribbed. A medium sized, acorn shaped, vining type. A customer favorite winter squash.

Yield; 1 or sometimes 2 fruits/plant. A beautiful squash that is know for it's taste! Blue Hubbard is know for its big taste and size! The fruit is slightly tapered at both ends and has a bumpy, blue outside.

Golden Hubbard produces sweet fruits packed with dry, fine-grained flesh. Probably the best eating quality squash of all the Hubbards. This winter squash is tasty when fresh, canned or frozen.

An unusually shaped round zucchini variety. The Round Zucchini is great in salads, baked, stir-fried or in zucchini bread and works especially well for stuffed zucchini recipes because of its shape.

Keep soil evenly moist but not wet as too much moisture causes seed to rot. See chart below; diseases vary by region. IR indicates intermediate resistance. When winter squash is mature cut stem leaving 2-4 inches remaining, gently wash in sanitizing solution;...

A healthy, tasty replacement for spaghetti noodles. This squash produces noodle like flesh inside itself. True to its name, grow your own spaghetti noodles! The Vegetable Spaghetti squash is great to use for spaghetti and other meals.

Yellow Bush offers beautiful, bright yellow fruits with a rich, mellow flavor. Also known as Golden Custard. Beautiful yellow scallops. Offers high yields and great for markets.

A great scallop mix for home gardeners. Get a mix of taste, maturity times and colors in your garden. A wonderful mixture of yellow, white, and green scallops.

Firm, fine flavor with very vigorous spreading vines. Give tatume plenty of room to spread and yields will be very high. A summer squash popular in Southern states and Mexico. Squash are best at 5-7″ in diameter.

Spotted and striped cucumber beetles, vine borers and squash bugs. Transplant carefully as to not disturb roots. Squash are rich in the carotenoids necessary for vitamin A production and boast a wide complement of amino acids.

Spotted and striped cucumber beetles, vine borers and squash bugs. Transplant carefully as to not disturb roots. Squash are rich in the carotenoids necessary for vitamin A production and boast a wide complement of amino acids.

Preferring cooler temperatures, the upright, open-habited plants are high-yielding and adapted for spring cultivation before temperatures rise. Harvest regularly when fruits are young to keep plants productive.

Harvest regularly when fruits are young to keep plants productive. Exceptionally strong right out of the seed, these plants emerge and develop into robust, compact bushes. See chart below; diseases vary by region.

Large orange ribbed rind, with flesh that is thick, juicy and spicy. Tender flesh, 5 lbs., great baked or roasted. A delicious Japanese heirloom.

Narragansett F1 also features outstanding yields and a full size vigorous vine. This squash is uniform in size and shape compared to other butternuts. (5-6 lbs.) Narragansett F1 Hybrid butternut squash features attractive, rich orange flesh within a beautiful...

Yields well and is a good keeper. Start early indoors in pots and transplant after last spring frost. (8 lbs.) Queensland Blue is a striking blue, flattened, and ribbed winter squash.

Spotted and striped cucumber beetles, vine borers and squash bugs. Transplant carefully as to not disturb roots. Squash are rich in the carotenoids necessary for vitamin A production and boast a wide complement of amino acids.

Golden-yellow flesh in a thin, dark-green, white-lined rind, flecked with gray. Can also be seeded directly in the field after soil temperature is 72°F. This squash has flesh that is dry and sweet with a finer grain than most winter squash.

Golden-yellow flesh in a thin, dark-green, white-lined rind, flecked with gray. Can also be seeded directly in the field after soil temperature is 72°F. This squash has flesh that is dry and sweet with a finer grain than most winter squash.

(Seed Variable); 2-8 lbs./acre.; 7-10 days, 72°F. Golden Nugget is a prolific bush winter squash bred to taste like a sweet potato. When harvest immature it can be prepared like a summer squash.