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'Fancycrook' Squash - Summer
 
Sub-Category: Yellow
 
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Description: Hybrid. Yellow crookneck type. High-yielding, vigorous plants with open habit bear buttery-yellow, white-fleshed, thin-necked fruit. Best picked at 5 inches. Resistant to powdery mildew.
Days To Maturity: 43
Seed Sources: Totally Tomato - updated in 2011

 
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Yield: (4.5 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (4.5 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 12/11/2020 by Robert23430 - An experienced gardener

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Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

Best tasting variety of yellow squash that I have tried by far. Great yield all summer long. Freeze very well. Will keep in the freezer for 3 years and still taste great. Need to pick when they are 5 - 6 inches.
 

Reviewed on 05/12/2006 by farmerdill - An experienced gardener

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Richmond, Georgia, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

This cultivar is a decent performer, but does not match up to Horn of Plenty or Dixie. Average as hybrid crooknecks go.
 




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