Squash Varieties

[Detlor Poultry]

I'm new here, so I hope this is in the right spot...

I'd like to know what all the varieties of squash are. But I mean more than just Butternut, Hubbard, etc., I mean actual varieties and strains (Burgess Buttercup, Waltham Butternut, New England Hubbard etc.) I know there are lots of them. Thanks for your help everyone!
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[digitS']

Here is a good resource for that:

Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners

You don't really need to have an account but it helps to have many gardeners writing reviews so the good folks at Cornell, obviously encourage it.

Here is another place with information:

Vegetable Cultivar Descriptions for North America

I don't think that the lists have been updated recently. It looks to me like there's somewhat of a truck farm orientation to the choices but, good heavens, there have been a lot of varieties over the years!

Steve

 

[Detlor Poultry]

Here is a good resource for that:

Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners

You don't really need to have an account but it helps to have many gardeners writing reviews so the good folks at Cornell, obviously encourage it.

Here is another place with information:

Vegetable Cultivar Descriptions for North America

I don't think that the lists have been updated recently. It looks to me like there's somewhat of a truck farm orientation to the choices but, good heavens, there have been a lot of varieties over the years!

Steve

Thank you! I haven't followed the second link, but the first one is amazing!

 

[April Manier]

There is the regular Delicata and then the delicata variety sugarloaf.

Delicata- cream skinned with green stripes. Very smooth textured with a slight earthy hint in flavor. Excellent for baking and frying.

Sugarloaf- bred for an oranger skin. this gives marketers the illusion of maturity sooner. They must have gotten it from breeding it with a butternut because it is slightly sweeter than the original squash.