Scallop-edged and flattened, this patty-pan variety is sweet, nutty and white-fleshed. For optimum eating quality, harvest when fruit is eight inches in diameter.

An outstanding winter vegetable, easy to grow and prolific. Flesh is rich orange, thick, sweet and excellent tasting. Delicious in pies or cut into serving-size pieces and baked, steamed, broiled or mashed.

Sunburst pattypan squash is mild flavored and can be sliced and added to a raw vegetable tray. They can also be cooked in a variety of simple ways including: steamed, grilled, sauteed, or even stuffed with ingredients such as wild rice and gourmet mushrooms.

The bright yellow squash is about 6 to 7 inches long (a bit larger than the average), very smooth, and sturdy.

This is a good choice for flavor, as it is nuttier than other varieties and the fruit color ranges from green to cream.

This is a grey zucchini type squash. Posses all the required characteristics that the Mexican markets look for: tapered fruit, green-grey color..

Yellow Zuchinni

Costata Romanesca is juicy and sweet-nutty flavored. It can be picked tiny and eaten whole; otherwise, it is best to harvest this summer squash at 7 to 10 inches long. Even at 15 inches long Costata Romanesca remains tender and flavorful. The male blossoms of this squash can be stuffed or breaded, cooked, and eaten.

These squash are round with an attractive shiny, speckled dark exterior. Tasting very similar to zucchini, use these where you would use a zucchini or use it as a serving bowl. Scoop out seeds; fill with your favorite dip or salad. They are the perfect vegetable for grilling, as their plump round size keeps them from falling through the grill.

A small plump squash that is only about four to five inches in diameter. Its skin is generally cream colored or light yellow with green stripes. The sweet dumpling's flesh is starchy and pale yellow in color but has a honey sweet flavor. Sweet dumpling squash are available September through December. When selecting, choose those with green stripes and those that are heavy for their size. Avoid squash with green skin, mottling and soft spots. Store unwrapped in a cool, dry location for up to 10 days.

Triamble squash is one of several blue-colored C. maxima winter squashes that are common in Australia but they are rare or unknown outside of that country.  The species are known to have originated in Uruguay but where/when/how this particular variety was developed is unknown.   

Triamble is stunningly beautiful and has a feel that matches it. Its shell is hard and with a marble-like smoothness.  The squash is dense and heavy.  In the hand it gives a near-correct impression that it is entirely solid.   The flesh is orange-colored and quite sweet.  Triamble keeps very well and Amy Goldman reports that she can store Triambles  for two years without loss of flavor or looks.

The Trimable plant has huge leaves and enjoys meandering for six or seven feet before throwing a fruit or two.  In my garden they were stricken with a mild case of blight but were nonetheless productive.

The cooked flesh of a Triamble is dry, deeply flavorful and mildly sweet.  It is an excellent choice both in the garden and in the kitchen.

Dark red Buttercup hybrid with exceptionally tasty dry orange colored flesh.

Long Island Heirloom known as the original "Cheese Wheel" . Smooth heavily ribbed tan skin with a deep orange somewhat sweet flesh. Not very prolific, but is a favorite of baking ladies. (6-10 lb.) Long Island Cheese features flattened, deep ribbed, buff colored fruit and orange sweet flesh. Excellent in pies.

The very smooth velvety skin make it attractive as well as tasty. These 18 to 24 inch long squash are 5 to 7 inches in diameter and with up to 10 pounds. The fiberless yellow-orange flesh is great for pies, baking, or canning. The Pink Banana squash is also known as Mexican Banana and Plymouth Rock

In shape and skin color, this winter squash is reminiscent of a banana. It grows up to two feet in length and about six inches in diameter. Its bright orange, finely-textured flesh is sweet. Banana squash is often available cut into smaller pieces.

Acorn squash with an attractive dark green color.

Easily found in supermarkets. As its name suggests, this winter squash is small and round shaped like an acorn. One of my favorite baking squashes, it's easy to slice into halves and fill with butter. A small acorn squash weighs from 1 to 3 pounds, and has sweet, slightly fibrous flesh. Its distinct ribs run the length of its hard, blackish-green or golden-yellow skin. In addition to the dark green acorn, there are now golden and multi-colored varieties.

All America Selection winner; uniform white acorn type; creamy smooth, tasty flesh.

Easily found in supermarkets. As its name suggests, this winter squash is small and round shaped like an acorn. One of my favorite baking squashes, it's easy to slice into halves and fill with butter. A small acorn squash weighs from 1 to 3 pounds, and has sweet, slightly fibrous flesh. Its distinct ribs run the length of its hard, blackish-green or golden-yellow skin. In addition to the dark green acorn, there are now golden and multi-colored varieties.

Extra-sweet, nutty flavor 2½ lb. fruits with reddish orange flesh. A sweet staple and a great source of vitamin A. Winter squash keeps for months and makes superb pie.

Easily found in supermarkets. Beige colored and shaped like a vase or a bell. This is a more watery squash and tastes somewhat similar to sweet potatoes. It has a bulbous end and pale, creamy skin, with a choice, fine-textured, deep-orange flesh with a sweet, nutty flavor. Some people say it is like butterscotch. It weighs from 2 to 5 pounds. The oranger the color, the riper, drier, and sweeter the squash.  Butternut is a common squash used in making soup because it tends not to be stringy.

Cream colored with orange spots or pale green with dark green spots in vertical stripes. Carnival Squash have hard, thick skins and only the flesh is eaten. It is sometimes labeled as a type of acorn squash.

The delicious yellow meat is reminiscent of sweet potatoes and butternut squash and can be baked or steamed then combined with butter and fresh herbs. Also great in soups.

Also called Peanut squash and Bohemian squash. This is one of the tastier winter squashes, with creamy pulp that tastes a bit like corn and sweet potatoes. Size may range from 5 to 10 inches in length. The squash can be baked or steamed The thin skin is also edible.

The delicata squash is actually an heirloom variety, a fairly recent reentry into the culinary world. It was originally introduced by the Peter Henderson Company of New York City in 1894, and was popular through the 1920s. Then it fell into obscurity for about seventy-five years, possibly because of its thinner, more tender skin, which isn't suited to transportation over thousands of miles and storage over months.

Beautiful blue turban-shaped 10-20 lb. fruit, deeply ribbed. Very fine, deep golden flesh that is sweet and fine flavored.

Red Warty Thing has Hubbard type flesh that is good eating. It has a very hard, thick rind.

The extra-hard skins make them one of the best keeping winter squashes. These are very large and irregularly shaped, with a skin that is quite "warted" and irregular. They range from big to enormous, have a blue/gray skin, and taper at the ends. Like all winter squash, they have an inedible skin, large, fully developed seeds that must be scooped out, and a dense flesh.

Hubbard squash is often sold in pieces because it can grow to very large sizes. The yellow flesh of these tends to be very moist and longer cooking times in the oven are needed. They are generally peeled and boiled, cut up and roasted, or cut small and steamed or sautéed. It's perfect for pies.

A thick-skinned orange colored squash that has the appearance of an oblong pumpkin without the ridges. Inside the hard outer skin there is a firm flesh that provides a very delicate and mellow flavor similar to the taste of chestnuts. This squash is available year round and can be baked, braised, pureed, or steamed to be served as a side dish or used as a base for soups. Also known as a Japanese squash, Orange Hokkaido or Uchiki Kuri squash.

A winter squash that is a variety of buttercup squash. It has a round, pumpkin shape weighing approximately 3 to 4 pounds. The squash has a bluish-gray to dark green skin covering a thick, fine-grained golden meat that provides a sweet flavor when cooked. It can be baked or microwaved to be served in casseroles or it can be stuffed and eaten on its own as a side dish.

Tivoli is a spaghetti-type squash.

It is about the same size as regular spaghetti squash, but with off-white rind.

Named for its shape. Turban Squash has colors that vary from bright orange, to green or white. It has golden-yellow flesh and its taste is reminiscent to hazelnut. Has a bulblike cap swelling from its blossom end, come in bizarre shapes with extravagant coloration that makes them popular as harvest ornamentals.  

It is popular for centerpieces, and its top can be sliced off so it can be hollowed and filled with soup. A larger variety of the buttercup squash, the turban has a bright orange-red rind. Its flesh and storage ability are comparable to the buttercup squash. Use in recipes that call or pie or sugar pumpkin.

An elegant French heirloom with an appropriately elegant sounding name. Magnifique! This stunning squash has beautiful salmon-peach colored skin covered with peanut shell-like warts caused by sugar in the skin. Traditionally used in France for soups and sauces, when cooked, the sweet, orange flesh is as smooth as velvet. Each flattened squash weighs 10-15 pounds and can store for up to 6 months. Definitely a show stopper in the garden or on the table.

Buttercup Squash are part of the Turban squash family (hard shells with turban-like shapes) and are a popular variety of winter squash. This squash has a dark-green skin, sometimes accented with lighter green streaks.

Has a sweet and creamy orange flesh. This squash is much sweeter than other winter varieties. Buttercup Squash can be baked, mashed, pureed, steamed, simmered, or stuffed and can replace Sweet Potatoes in most recipes.

Striking blue skin, flattened in shape and  ribbed.

Fruits reach 6-8 pounds.

The flesh is deep orange and sweet.

New Zealand Blue is a good keeper.

Great market seller for not only the flavor, but the interesting shape and color.