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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Paulines7 on February 08, 2020, 16:07:00
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Your help is required please. I wonder if anyone has any idea on the name of a squash which I grew last year. First I must apologise for not taking a photograph of this squash but it didn't cross my mind and I have now peeled it and cut it into chunks ready to make into a soup.
The squash is the size and shape of a rugby ball with green and yellow stripes. The skin was very hard and a peeler was non effective. I couldn't even get a knife through to cut the squash in half. I left it a couple of days and then had another go at it today. I managed to get a small knife between the skin and the flesh and the skin came off in small brittle pieces. Once it was off, I was able to cut the squash up. It had some lovely seeds inside which I have saved but I probably won't sow them again as I suspect this squash could be a cross of some kind. The flesh surrounding the seeds was very stringy, almost like a spaghetti squash but I thought the skins of those were yellow, cream or white.
I would be grateful for any suggestions as to what this squash is please?
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Maybe Stripetti? A cross between spaghetti and delicata.
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Thank you Obelixx, it certainly looks like a Stripetti. I grew spaghetti squash about three years ago so they must have cross pollinated with my Delicata.
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Good. That was easy then.
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Good. That was easy then.
Yes. Thanks for your help. I had no idea what it was.