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'Yellow Crookneck' Squash - Summer |
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Yellow
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Yellow crookneck type. Slightly bumpy, bright-yellow fruit with bulbous end. Best picked at 4 to 5 inches.
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58
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| Seed Sources: |
BBBseed - updated in 2011
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (2.5 Stars)
Taste: (1.5 Stars)
Yield: (3.5 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.0 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 4
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 07/26/2023 by
bst
- An experienced gardener
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Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| . UPDATE AUGUST 2023 - Plants have produced some decent size squash afterall. Not a heavy producer, but a couple of plants are enough for my wife and myself. Flavor is just OK, nothing to brag about. Early prolific straightneck is a heavier producer and has better taste. |
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Reviewed on 03/26/2007 by
kristie8888
- An intermediate gardener
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Tarrant, Texas, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Every single fruit got sucked to nothing at the two inch stage by black fuzzy mold. |
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Reviewed on 03/27/2006 by
zoebisch01
- An intermediate gardener
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Centre, Pennsylvania, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Very easy to grow and produced an abundance of beautiful crisp squash. The only drawback is they seemed to have little flavor. To be fair I only grew one of these plants, so it may have been the specific genetics of that particular plant, or perhaps my conditions, and in addition I am not a huge fan of summer squash. The plant eventually succumbed to powder mildew even though I was not overhead watering. |
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Reviewed on 01/19/2006 by
MATERGIRL
- An intermediate gardener
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York, Pennsylvania, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I grew this in 2005 with seeds from Seed Savers. The plants were absolutely huge and beautiful and produced large quantities of fruits. The only problem was that, no matter how small I picked 'em, the squashes were always tough and inedible. I was sorely disappointed because I remember these as the very best tasting summer squash and the seeds were not cheap. I don't know what went wrong. Did they cross pollinate with something? Was the soil deficent? We were stumped! In 2006: Fruit picked very small (4" or less) from a volunteer were fair, not much flavor. I can see now the problem is the seeds mature extremely rapidly. |
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