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  • From: michelle rome <michelleann7 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations - squash
  • Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:29:50 -0700 (PDT)

Beth
Pattypan, white scallop (actually light green), some call piter pan or peter
pan - check Johnny's. This is very common in the south. Let me know if you
want some seeds. Kinda late to plant this up north unless hoop house.
Michelle Hromyak
Romy Farms
E&W SC

Beth Wrote:
> I loved "Butter Scallop" pattypan,
> but cannot find the seed for it anymore.
> It is/was a hybrid.  Anyone know who produced it or
> know of a source?  It
> was pale yellow, very tender, great flavor, productive and
> disease
> resistant.  It was out the same time there were
> probably 5 pattypans in each
> catalog, with lots of color and shape variation, and I
> suspect it didn't
> sell well because it didn't catch folks eyes.
>
> Rivka - where do you get the White Pattypan?  How does
> it differ from
> Bennings Green Tint, which I find bland, late, and not
> particularly
> productive?
>
>
> Beth Spaugh
> Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
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> We had problems with rot and weird appearance at the
> blossom end on 
> Costata Romanesco; and, for anyone interested in harvesting
> baby 
> zucchini with the flowers still attached, the flowers
> didn't seem to 
> hold at all; they disintegrated into gush very fast.
>
> Anyone else have this problem with Costata?
>
> We usually grow Cocozelle for an old variety with good
> flavor, and 
> Ambassador for a standard dark green zucchini; Ambassador
> is somewhat 
> hard to find seed for, but seems more disease resistant
> than most. I 
> have also had bad luck with Partenon, which died of disease
> faster 
> than anything else I had out there one year I tried it.
> Success PM did 
> not do all that well for me and got just as much powdery
> mildew as 
> anything else, Multipik does better here; and I second
> Zephyr which is 
> a nice reliable squash with good flavor and a distinctive
> look. I also 
> grow a little Yellow Crookneck which I think has best
> flavor but needs 
> to be picked very young or people won't buy it as the skins
> are bumpy 
> and look overripe before they are (Yellow Crookneck is a
> very old 
> variety.)
>
> We also grow White Pattypan which is also called Early
> White Bush 
> Scallop, and White Bush cousa. The White Pattypan is also
> hard to find 
> but it has better flavor here than most other pattypans
> I've tried.
>
> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
>
>
>
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