SQUASH: TROMBONCINO

(CUCURBITA MOSCHATA)

 

A two for one; Zucchini AND a pumpkin!

An unusual vining fruit – pale green with pale white stripes. All the seeds are in

one bulbous end making it easy to use.

Harvested at 20-30cm for zucchini or left on the vine to ripen to a buff pale orange

fruit up to 1.5m long and eaten as a pumpkin.

Roasts well with yellow flesh.

Keeps for several months. prolific.

Mildew resistant.

WHEN TO PLANT

Cool Climate: OCT, NOV, DEC

Temperate:  SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC

Sub – Tropical: AUG – APR

Tropical: FEB – OCT

Arid: SEP – JAN

 

SOIL PREFERENCES

PH 6.5-7.5

Well-drained soil.

GROWING TIPS

Direct sow or in trays.

Plant seed 2.5cm deep, transplant or thin to 80-100cm apart.

Best trained up a trellis so the fruits hang down and grow straight.

Grown as a bush the fruits grow delightfully twisted.

 

DAYS TO HARVEST

70 Days for Zucchinis

100 Days for Pumpkins

APPROX 5 SEEDS

OPEN POLLINATED SEED 100% TASMANIAN GROWN

GROWN ORGANICALLY