Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

>     Actually, there are 3 separate species here. Cucurbita pepo 
> includes most pumpkins and zuccini. Cucurbita moschata are the 
> butternuts and some pumpkin types. Cucurbita maxima are hubbards and 
> buttercups. These species do not cross with one another usually. The 
> seeds are how you tell the difference.
> Regards, Lynn

Actually 4--don't forget Cucurbita mixta. Not as widely grown as the 
other three, but in the South, the cushaw is likely to be *the* "winter 
squash" for anyone looking for something bigger than a butternut.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
www.themodernhomestead.us

The threat of nuclear weapons and man's ability to destroy the environment 
are really alarming. And yet there are other almost imperceptible changes--I 
am thinking of the exhaustion of our natural resources, and especially of 
soil erosion--and these are perhaps more dangerous still, because once we 
begin to feel their repercussions it will be too late.  ~The Dalai Lama