‘Bennings Green Tint’
This is one of the most beautiful varieties of Patty Pan squash there is, and it dates from around 1900 or a little earlier. The bushes are quite vigorous and make uniform saucer-shaped fruits with scalloped edges and pale-green, fine-textured flesh of good flavor. Harvest them when about 2- 3 inches across, and the plant will make lots more.
Heirloom pale green variety.Pick when small!
12 seed £2.49
‘Custard White’
Patty-pan squash are flattened, saucer-shaped courgettes. This old French heirloom produces white fruit, which are cut when young (about 3 inches across) and cooked or fried just like a courgette. The flavour is a little richer and more substantial than courgettes, with a slight 'nutty' taste. Very popular each year, they can be quite prolific indeed in a good summer.
Saucer-shaped white courgette! Pick when small. Grown for The Seed Cooperative by Tara Morris on her organic farm.
12 seed, organic. £2.48
‘Summer Crookneck’
This is an amazing knobbly yellow squash, with bulbous fruit and a curved neck (hence the name). Although botanically a 'squash' it is always picked early, sliced whole, & used just like a courgette - with a great nutty flavour. We think that it is tastier than courgettes though - firmer fleshed and better flavoured!
Always a favourite of ours, and very productive.
12 seed £2.58
‘Tromboncino’
A unique dual-purpose squash on long rampant vines. Baby green fruits can be harvested and used like a summer squash when 8-12" long, they are sweet like courgettes and great steamed, grilled or sliced raw. If not used for summer squash, the fruits will grow up to 3 foot long with meaty necks that can be used much like a marrow.
60 days for summer squash, 90 days for winter squash. Let us know if you like it!
12 seed £2.43
Friuliano Italian Straightneck
This is another type of summer squash from Italy, which we tried a few years back and it had a really good flavour. It's a traditional yellow semi-straightneck squash from the mountains on the Italian-Austrian border. The plants are large bushes, with only a slight tendency to vine.
Harvest when small and tender (3” to 7” long) & use like a courgette. Really soft and delicious when fried!
12 seed £2.69
Sharks Fin melon gourd
Don't be put off by the name! This is neither a melon nor a gourd, in fact a relative of squash - however it is absolutely delicious and you use it like you would a courgette, except that it taste nicer than a courgette.
The vines are quite large and vigourous and climb all over things and then produce lots of large green and white stripey fruit, just like a green pumpkin. However you do not let them get big (unless you are saving seed to plant next year) instead you take them small when they may be the size of a large grapefruit. Slice and fry them with olive oil and garlic or any other recipe that you would use a courgette for and they are lovely.
Very vigourous under cover, outdoors will need a sunny spot and something to climb.
6 seed, organic. £2.89
White and Cream Crookneck - GUEST VARIETY FOR TRIAL
A lovely new strain of crookneck from Germany, with pale creamy white fruit borne in profusion on compact plants.
Join in with our research: Guest varieties are promising new ones we haven't tested fully yet. Just a few packets here as a crowd-sourced trial - your chance to help find out what does well all across the UK! Let us know what you think - they'll stay in the catalogue if lots of people email in to say it was really good.
10 seed £2.58