Cucurbitaceae · in the live register
Porcelain Doll Gourd
Cucurbita maxima. A pale-winter squash line the Vernal family has selected for storage honesty, no hype, since 1963.
- Days
- 100 days to harvest
- Habit
- Vine, 8 to 10 ft
- Light
- Full sun
- Sowing
- Direct after frost
Keeps until the seedlings of the NEXT crop are up on the bench, which is the whole point of a storage squash. Cure it two weeks and forget it until spring.
From the grower's notes
“Don't baby it. Give it ordinary ground, keep the row marked, and write down what you did. Next year's borrower will be reading your note, not ours.”
The packet carries a pinch of seed and a copy of these notes. Sowing depth, spacing and the season's quirks are penciled on the back by whoever last returned it.
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