Summer Squash Plant

Golden Zucchini: Bush plants, bright-golden cylindrical fruits, medium-long and slender with an excellent flavor. For best flavor, pick when they are under 10 inches long. Delightful in creamy soups, make fresh “zoodles” by mandolin slicing these and topping with fresh tomatoes, salt, pepper, and drizzle a bit of olive oil! Use as a traditional green zucchini.

Black Beauty Zucchini: While this variety is named ‘black’, this zucchini actually has a very dark green skin color. An open-pollinated zucchini, this variety is perfect for home gardeners and has a delicious flavor. Noted as being easy to pick and easy to grow, the white-fleshed and small-seeded summer squash is one to be grown!

Patisson Golden Marbre Scallop Squash: A unique French scallop squash. Fruit is a beautiful bright golden-orange color. Young fruit is very tender and well flavored! Also makes good winter squash. Tall bush plants are very attractive, and yields are good.

Yellow Crookneck Squash: This variety is one of the oldest squash still being grown. Seeds were brought over from Europe and cultivated in the Americas as early as the 1500s. The namesake comes from the bent neck of the gourd with its rounded bottom. This shape provides good meat with minimal seeds. Pick them small, and they are the best thing for a summer stir-fry or vegetable salad.