whats squash (garden wise)?

Answer 1

Generally, there are two kinds of squash: winter and summer. Winter squash are hard and usually the skin is not eaten. Pumpkins, acorn squash, butternut squash, hubbards are winter squash. Zuccini, patty pan, yellow and crookneck are summer squash. Summer squash are softer, the flesh and skin are eaten normally. Both are related to melons and cukes! Heres what encarta has to say:

"Squash (vegetable), common name for American trailing plants, of a genus of the gourd family, and for their edible fruits, which are used as table vegetables. Several members of the genus are also called pumpkin. Squashes have been developed in many varieties and yield fruits of widely differing forms and sizes. Summer squash, including the summer crookneck, the white or yellow scallops, and the green zucchini, is harvested early, before the rind has begun to harden. The Hubbard, Boston, marrow, turban, and butternut squashes are winter varieties gathered in the autumn with hard shells when ripe. Winter squash may be stored much longer than summer squash. Other well-known types of squash include the cushaw and winter crookneck.

Scientific classification: Squashes make up the genus Cucurbita of the family Cucurbitaceae. Summer squashes are varieties of the species classified as Cucurbita pepo. Hubbard, Boston, Marrow, turban, and butternut squashes are varieties of the species classified as Cucurbita maxima. The cushaw and winter crookneck squashes are varieties of the species classified as Cucurbita moschata."


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Answer 2

Its a vegetable. Its like zucchini but instead of being long and green a squash is small and yellow. (looks like the same shape as a pumpkin) but way smaller.

Answer 3

Squash is actually a fruit - it has seeds.

Answer 4

the final ingredient to advance is regardless of you opt to consume. in case you do no longer consume beets, do no longer plant them. in case you like clean beans, then plant beans. you in addition to might ought to plant properly to your starting to be zone. in case you reside in a cool northern climate, planting something like avocadoes may be a foul theory.

Answer 5

its a gourd-veggie thing, kind of like a zucchini.