Pumpkins Squash and Gourds
Single Plants - $1.50, Four Packs - $4.00
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To place an order, complete the order form and return it to orders@minnesotafreshfarm.com.
Please pay for your plants and seeds when you pick them up at the farm.
You are welcome to simply stop by the farm and shop for plants, also.
PumpkinsAutumn Crown: Miniature Long Island Cheese type. Extremely uniform, buff-colored fruit. Combines the attractive skin and flesh characteristics of a butternut squash with a flat shape and great flavor. Internal color is bright orange with a small seed cavity. Fruits have the aroma of sweet melon when cut.
Baby Bear: Baby Bear has a unique size and shape. Deep orange, 1 1/2-2 1/2-lb. fruits are about half the size of a normal pie pumpkin. With slender, sturdy, easy-to-grip handles, they are very appealing to children. In addition to its decorative use, the flesh is good for pies and the semi-hulless seeds are good for roasted snacks. Blanco: True, white-colored pumpkin with shallow ribs. Unlike others, it shows moderate resistance to color change when exposed to sun and light frosts. Its 4 to 6 lb. fruit have a uniform, round shape and long, green handles. Dill's Atlantic Giant: Fruit often weigh 200 to 300 lbs. with average care. These huge fruit have slightly rough skin that ranges in color from yellow to red-orange. Plants need a lot of room. Space hills fifteen to twenty feet apart in an area that is protected from wind and that receives full sun. Careful and regular watering are critical since at the peak of the growing season the fruit can add fifteen or more pounds per day. Howden: Traditional, old-time Halloween favorite. Very high yields of 10-15 pound, intensely bright orange pumpkins with defined ribs and strong handles for jack-o-lanterns. Large spreading 10 foot vines. Good yields producing 4-6 carving pumpkins per plant. Single plant. Jack Be Little: This tiny pumpkin fits into the palm of your hand. Bright orange, smooth fruits are an arts-and-crafter's dream. Fits any garden! Compact vines spread 10-15 feet, produce up to 20 edible fruits. Single plant. Jarrahdale: This blue-gray pumpkin with a orange, sweet, and stringless inside that makes is great choose for any pumpkin baked goods. Scarface: Great sized warty pumpkin with a nice round, upright shape. Can get to 15-19 lbs. Replaces Knuckle Head, which was sold in the past. Long Island Cheese: These pumpkins are medium-large, flattened, and medium-ribbed, suggesting a wheel of cheese. Smooth, tan skin, and a slender woody stem. Deep orange, moderately sweet flesh for pie. Long storage. A beautiful oldie. Avg. 6-10 lb. Avg. yield: 2 fruits/plant. Porcelain Doll: Striking pink color on large, blocky, deeply ribbed fruit. Large vines produce excellent yields of 20-25 lb. fruit that have a pink colored rind and sweet, deep orange flesh. Porcelain Doll's pumpkin flesh is good for pies, soups or canning. Snowball: Small, white pumpkin that holds its color well. Attractive, smooth-rind, round, avg. 2 lb. fruit. Bright white color with dark green stems. Medium-length vines. Wee Be Little: A true miniature pumpkin!! About the size of a baseball and very endearing. Slightly flat-round shape like a normal pumpkin. Bright orange rind, smooth enough for painting. Semi-bush plants for close spacing. Single plant. |
SquashSummer Squash, Bennings Green Tint Patty Pan: Uniform scallops and greenish-cream coloring in the younger stages of the fruits. Rated by many as the best-tasting summer squash, especially if picked small at 2–3" in diameter when they are especially fine-textured and tender. Single plant.
Summer Squash, Golden Glory Zucchini: Glossy gold zucchini with white flesh. Single stemmed, easy picking. Single plant. Summer Squash, Black Beauty Zucchini: 6-8", spineless, almost seedless. Compact, semi-bush plants produce uniform, straight, smooth, glossy dark green fruits of excellent quality even when relatively large. Single plant. Summer Squash, Zucchini, Grey: 5-7", grey-green w/cream mottling. Single plant. Winter Squash, Angel Hair: Small spaghetti squash variety, perfect for single servings. Highly uniform and egg-shaped, with a slightly darker shell than other varieties. Imparts sweet, nutty flavor. An excellent pasta alternative — bake or boil, fork out the flesh, and top the "spaghetti" with your favorite sauce. Winter Squash, Buttercup, Burgess: 8 inch in diameter and weighs 3-4 pounds. The rind is deep green, furrowed with light green stripes and a turban cap. The medium orange flesh is dry and sweet, and has finer grain and less fiber than many winter squash. Single plant. Winter Squash, Butternut, Butterscotch: AAS Award Winner. Delicious, single-serving mini butternut. Unusually rich and sweet flavor due to higher sugar content than other butternut types. Small 1-2 lb. fruits mature early and can be consumed at maturity. Limited storage, best up to 3 months after maturity. Short, space-saving vines. Avg. yield: 3-4 fruits/plant. Single plant. Winter Squash, Butternut, Waltham: Many think this is the finest quality winter squash. Length ranges from 8 to 10 inches and the weight averages 3 pounds. Generally cylindrical with a widened but very small seed cavity. Rind is tough, light tan, or buff in color. Flesh is extremely fine, sweet, and light yellow. Single plant. Winter Squash, Delicata: Also known as "Sweet Potato" squash because of its flavor. Very productive and stores well throughout the winter and into spring. Enjoy its fine grained, light orange flesh steamed or baked. Single plant. Honeynut: This squash has a very rich, sweet flavor. When fully ripe they will be a burnt orange and 1-1.5 lbs Winter Squash, Hubbard: Blue or True Green-Improved. Orange, fine textured flesh has excellent flavor. Single plant. Winter Squash, Marina de Chioggia: A unique, green warted, Italian heirloom squash valued for its eating quality, and traditionally used in preparing gnocci and ravioli. The perfect shape for stacking, this novel ornamental is also long-storing. Winter Squash, Reno Acorn: Dark green, semi-bush, productive plant. Golden yellow flesh is very sweet. Single plant. Winter Squash, Sunshine Buttercup/Kabocha: Bright orange flesh, dry yet tender, sweet yet meaty. While none of the Buttercup types are high yielding, these short-vined plants give a fair harvest of fruits shaped like a buttercup but with rounded shoulders and no turban. Winter Squash, Sweet Dumpling: Stunning 1–1½ lb, ivory-colored, green-striped fruits shaped like miniature pumpkins. To experience its sweet, dry, and memorably rich, deep orange flesh, make sure your Dumpling is ripe. Single plant.. Winter Squash, Vegetable Spaghetti: The classic pasta alternative. Skin is ivory, changing to pale yellow at maturity. Bake like squash or boil and fork out the flesh, topping the "spaghetti" with your favorite sauce. 3-5 lb. oblong fruit. Single plant. |
GourdsApple, Large: These apple shaped gourds have a mottled green color and measure up to 4-5" wide, 6-7" tall. A variety of sizes are produced, and the shape can vary from a round to upright shape that resembles a delicious apple. Great dried!
Autumn Wings: This ornamental gourd mix is a delightful assortment of deeply winged, warted pears and other shapes. Avg. 8–11 fruits/plant. Daisy: A high-yielding, unique, colorful mix in shades of green, orange, yellow, and white with a unique daisy pattern on the stem end of the fruit. Avg. 12–18 fruits/plant. Galaxy of Stars: The mix produces unique, star-shaped fruit of varying, striped patterns in colors of yellow, cream, orange, green, and white. Hoargarth: Intermediate bush plants produce distinctive, warty fruit that add texture and deep color to fall displays. The hard-warted fruit are 7” wide x 5” tall, narrow stemmed, and mature from dark green and orange combinations to solid orange at full maturity (90 days). Large Fruited Mix: A mixture of the larger varieties. Four pack. Lunch Lady: Large, vigorous vines produce unique, large warted gourds that weigh from 5-20 lbs. each. Each vine produces an array of fruit sizes, shapes and colors, all with hard shells and warts. Four pack. Shenot Crown of Thorns: An interesting, colorful gourd, about 4-5" in diameter. It's roughly round with ribs and curved "fingers" pointing to the blossom end. Plants produce a variety of striped and bicolor fruit with white, orange, yellow, light and dark green colors. Small Ornamental Mix: A colorful selection of small, ornamental gourds. Unusually shaped fruits are real conversation piece when dried and used for table decoration. Four pack. Swan: 14-18" long and 6-8" base. Just the gourd to grow for a child's class, a craft project, or holiday decorating. Speckled Swan is indeed shaped just like a full-bodied, long-necked swan. The neck even produces a small terminal bulb just before the stem, suggesting a head! * Especially suited to containers and raised beds.
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