Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash, easy-to-grow, Caribbeangardenseed

•   Heirloom (Open Pollinated)summer squash !
• Organic
• LIGHT: Full sun
• Fruit size: 6 inches long
• Matures: 53 days
• Plant spacing: 36 to 48 inches
• Plant size: 3 feet wide, 2 feet tall

Heirloom. Easy to grow and fast to mature. This is our favorite summer squash, bearing many lemon-yellow, 6-inch fruit, with a slightly bent neck that earns it the name Crookneck. Plants are fast growing and very prolific. Harvest all summer long. Delicious steamed with nutmeg or fried in slices and sprinkled with parmesan cheese and crumbled bacon. Harvest while skins are soft. Keep plants picked so they keep producing.
A favorite for over 150 years, this classic, easy-to-grow, heirloom bush summer squash produces abundant white-fleshed fruits that are famously more flavorful than other summer squash types. Use a knife to cut fruit from the plant to avoid breaking the slender neck
Did You Know? Most of a squash’s nutrients are found in the skin.
Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash Cucurbita pepo
Package contains a minimum of 20 Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash Seeds Heirloom Organic Open Pollinated
Heirloom Seeds, Warm Season, Edible Meaty Vegetable, Open Pollinated
If you are growing a summer garden this year, this is a must have. Plants perform excellent and produce an abundance of fruits. Best harvested and consumed when young while skin is still soft. Pick when fruits are around 4 inches. Plants prefer full sun and do well in sandy soil. Flowers are large and lovely, and squash is delicious. Native Americans would intercrop squash, beans, and corn. The pole beans grow along the corn stalk, and squash is grown in the lower, horizontal space. This is how the “three sisters” term came to be. These seeds may produce fruits that grow to be many pounds if left to mature.
Growing Organic Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash Seeds
Growing Organic Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash is fairly easy and very rewarding. This heirloom variety loves full sun and a sandier dry soil. plant into a full sun patch and companion plant with a bush bean if possible. It is also recommended to plant some basil, mint, or chives nearby to deter certain pest. Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash are very drought tolerant once they establish themselves in the organic garden.

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