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'Autumn Cup' Squash - Winter

Sub-Category:	Buttercup/Kabocha Bush

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Hybrid. Buttercup/kabocha type. Semi-bush vines bear 6-inch, dark-green, 2 1/2- to 3-pound fruit with small, green button and deep-orange flesh. Stores well. Plants produce 3 or4 fruit.
Days To Maturity:	95
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Overall: (5.0 Stars) Taste: (5.0 Stars) Yield: (3.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (3.0 Stars)

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Reviewed on 09/16/2004 by George Morrison - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Westchester, New York, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: Less than 6 hours per day
Fans of the Burgess strain of Buttercup winter squash will find the smaller Autumn Cup fruit to have much the same sweet, moist, stringless quality of the older variety but without its turban. This gives you more meat per fruit and makes it easier to cut for cooking. The vines are quite vigorous, but do not sprawl as much as regular Buttercup. They do nicely on a sturdy fence if space is a problem.

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