Summer Squash

Summer Squashes are harvested and eaten before they mature. They have very thin skins and, generally, edible seeds.

Summer Squashes will cross-breed with acorn squash, some pumpkins including jack-o-lantern pumpkins, as well as with each other, of course. Though you may not see the results of the cross-pollination that occurred in the current year's crop, it would show up in the seeds from the crop if they were planted this year.

Summer Squashes will not cross-breed with cucumbers, or melons.

The most well-known example of Summer Squash is zucchini.

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Also called:

Cucurbita pepo (Scientific Name); Courge d'été (French); Sommerkürbissen (German); Calabacita (Spanish)

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