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Cooking with squash is easy to do, especially in pastas, soups, and more. Look for these different types of winter and summer squash varieties.
8. Sweet Dumpling Squash. Looks like: Like its name implies, sweet dumpling squash is small, squat and compact. It has a pale yellow rind with distinct dark stripes and ridges and yellow-orange flesh.
Cut it open to find pale orange flesh that’s firm and dry, but bakes up tender, fragrant, sweet and nutty, similar to butternut squash, with a subtle maple flavor and aroma.
Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita. It yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to the subspecies Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, called summer squash. [3] It has been domesticated in the Americas for thousands of years. [4]
Squash is a frost-tender plant meaning that the seeds do not germinate in cold soil. Winter squash seeds germinate best when the soil temperature is 21 to 35 °C (70 to 95 °F), with the warmer end of the range being optimal. [4] It is harvested whenever the fruit has turned a deep, solid color and the skin is hard.
Roasted delicata squash. Delicata squash is a variety of winter squash [1] with cylindrical fruits that are cream-coloured and striped in green or orange. [2] As its name suggests, it has characteristically a delicate rind (or skin [3]). It is also known as peanut squash, Bohemian squash, or sweet potato squash. It is a very sweet variety with ...
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A Pink Banana squash, cut, with seeds removed, with a U.S. quarter for size comparison A buttercup squash A cut open blue hubbard squash A golden Hubbard squash. Arikara squash weighs from four to eleven pounds with a teardrop or round shape with a mottled orange and green color pattern. It is used both for its eating qualities and as decoration.