Yesterday we harvested our trial field for new winter squash varieties two hybrid stars really shone! The first is a new, round, pie pumpkin called 'Trickster'. It's very similar to the 'Prankster' variety, but we saw much more uniform orange color with the 'Trickster' as well as greater stem quality and a touch better disease resistance. The second, and a bit unexpected, winner was the 'Quantum' butternut squash. Wow, what a producer! High yield, amazing uniformity of color, size and shape with really nice, thick necks and, to be in a field with a fairly significant amount of both downy and powdery mildews present, it was virtually disease free. If you're considering new varieties of winter squash for your garden next year, it would be hard to go wrong with these!
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| 'Trickster' |
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| 'Quantum' |
