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'Dark Green' Squash - Summer
 
Sub-Category: Zucchini
 
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Description: Heirloom zucchini. Vines bear dark green fruit.
Days To Maturity: 50
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Reviewed on 09/03/2011 by Ferdzy - An intermediate gardener

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Ontario, Canada
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 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 has been our standard zucchini for a number of years. It is a good reliable producer of impressive quantites of good dark green (surprise) zucchini. It is not quite as tasty as Cocozelle or Costata Romanesco, but it tastes fine and produces way more. Like most zucchini, needs to be picked daily, and do not forget to lift those leaves or you will find boats. Like all our zucchini, it gets covered in powdery mildew and slows down at the end of the summer, but it should tick along through most of September. I have gotten dozens of zucchini off of each plant by now so I cannot say it owes me a damned thing. We will continue to grow this as we try other, more exotic varieties of summer squash each year. ADDED 2012: We have terrible cucumber beetles this year, and this variety, along with Golden, is noticeably the most attractive to them.
 




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