Jarrahdale Winter Squash

Jarrahdale

Cucurbita maxima

100 days — Originally from Australia, 'Jarrahdale' is similar to 'Sweet Meat' winter squash. Its vines produce fruit that are wider than they are tall, deeply ribbed, and range in weight from ten to twelve pounds each, but can reach twenty. The rinds are hard and blue-grey in color with fine-grained, dry, sweet, nearly stringless flesh that is orange-yellow in color and excellent for baking or in pies. When properly harvested and cured, 'Jarrahdale' squash store well. Each packet contains four grams, which is approximately 18 to 20 seeds.