Spaghetti Squash

Description

(88 days) Cucurbita pepo Open-pollinated. Penny Kupinski of Harrisburg, MO, took us to task for damning spaghetti squash with faint praise. “From your description you may not have had truly ripe spaghetti squash which is a deep gold. Pale yellow is nowhere near ripe and tasteless and tough. Takes a long time to mature even here…but has a wonderful nutty flavor when ripe and needs only a little salt and pepper to be excellent…It is also a great keeper.” Oblong fruits, generally around 4 lb with spaghetti-like strings in the flesh. First commercialized by Sakata in Japan in 1934 and brought to the States by Burpee two years later