Seed Freaks - Squash: Zucchini/Pumpkin - Tromboncino

Pumpkins

Seed Freaks – Squash: Zucchini/Pumpkin – Tromboncino

$4.20

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

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Click on the product image (the Seed Freaks packet) for information on how to grow this variety.

Sow when is based on cooler climates. If you are growing in a warm, subtropical or tropical climate you may need to check your local sow when guides.

All seed packets sold are in date. The use by date on the packet image does not reflect the date of the seed for sale, we don’t update the image to reflect the latest batch.

If the word HUON is in bold on the packet it means it’s been grown and saved in the Huon Valley.

All those grown in the Huon Valley are grown organically.

Sorry, no sales to WA or overseas due to quarantine Restrictions.

We hope you enjoy growing these heirloom and often rare varieties. While we grow seed commercially it’s home gardeners who are keeping them alive!