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'Potimarron' Squash - Winter |
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Misc.
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French variety. Vines bear 3- to 4-pound, orange-skinned and -fleshed fruit with chestnut-like flavor.
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85-95
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (3.0 Stars)
Taste: (3.0 Stars)
Yield: (2.0 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (3.0 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 2
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 12/22/2009 by
YorkerJenny
- An intermediate gardener
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Onondaga, New York, 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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| The only reason why I bought these seeds because it says chestnut like taste. Well, I don't know how French people eat potimarron and I don't know if French chesnut is different than our chestnut, but there was even not %1 chestnut taste at all! so, I was very dissapointed. Compare to other winter squashes, this variety was pretty slow. It's said relative to red kuri. I also grew them, too. But potimarron bigger than them, their neck is straight, yield is a lot less than red kuri. Taste? when I just picked red kuri and slowly cooked with sugar, taste and texture was like chestnut. Potimarron had like average winter squash. I'll try next year, too. Because I have more seeds and I'll pick some of them earlier, maybe I can get some sort of nutty taste.
I got the seeds from sandhillpreservation.com |
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Reviewed on 10/23/2006 by
Ottawa Gardener
- An intermediate gardener
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Ontario, Canada
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| I was very interested in the description of the flavour though I have only eaten one, I did not notice the chestnut flavour in it. It tasted like a nice squash but I wasn't blown away or anything. It was also LOVED by the cucumber beetles, and the yeild was slow to get started so significantly lower than my Walthman Butternut that was growing nearby. Perhaps in a longer season, it would do better. The vine was vigorous. |
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