Weedwhacker's Plant List: O.P.

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Abbreviations used:
PSS: 2014 Piggy Seed Swap (Ella's Garden on Cubits) / Ptree: Pinetree Seeds / AHS: Amishland Heirloom Seeds
JSS: Johnny's Selected Seeds / Park: Park Seeds / TT: Totally Tomatoes / Burp: Burpee Seeds
Shum: Shumway Seed / Gurn: Gurney's Seeds / TF: TomatoFest / FYF: Forever Yong Farms /
HF: Henry Field's / LSC: Livingston Seed Company / SSE: Seed Saver's Exchange / S&S: Seeds 'n' Such

HH: Hoophouse / GH: Greenhouse

WS: Wintersown
V (i.e., "WS/V," "indoors/V): sown in vermiculite

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Winter Squash (Cucurbita maxima 'Golden Hubbard')
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Winter Squash (Cucurbita maxima 'Lakota')
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2020: Grew from seeds saved in 2011.

Sturdy 5 to 10 lb. fruits held up on the fence with no problems.

Winter Squash (Cucurbita maxima 'Red Kuri')
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2016: seeds from ATP beta swap
Beautiful squash and grew well; flesh seemed a bit less fine-grained compared to Lakota.

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Winter Squash (Cucurbita maxima 'Sweet Meat')
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Vining
2015: PSS
“95 days A delicious heirloom from Oregon; excellent flavored deep orange flesh is very sweet. Fruit are large and flattened in shape Skin color is beautiful deep sea blue-green. “ “This 10-15 pound, slate gray, round squash is renowned for its superb keeping quality and unsurpassed rich, sweet flavor.”

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Butternut Squash (Cucurbita moschata 'Burpee's Butterbush')
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Sprawling bush
2015: Burp (2013),
and saved seeds
"Deep red-orange flesh is rich and delicious. Space-saving, bush-type plants grow only 3' long. Each bush bears 4-5 butternut-shaped fruits averaging 1½ lb. Days to Maturity: 75 days"

Small portion of recurring harvest

Tromboncino (Cucurbita moschata 'Tromba d'Albenga')
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Vining
2015, 2016: PSS (not growing this year)

"70 days. This Italian summer squash is a wonderful diversion from the usual. The light green-to-tan fruit can grow up to 3 feet long and may be harvested anytime, from just a few inches through its full size. Enjoy Tromboncino's rich flavor steamed, grilled, or sliced raw in your favorite salad. A vining variety that is best trellised for straighter fruit."

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Winter Squash (Cucurbita moschata 'Upper Ground Sweet Potato Squash')
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O.P.
Reimer has seeds

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Butternut Squash (Cucurbita moschata 'Waltham')
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Vining
2015: PSS
2016: started my own saved seeds and seeds from beta swap on 5/8 (indoors).
2022: Pinetree
"By far the most widely-grown OP butternut with delicious, finely textured dark orange flesh. Uniform fruits with smooth, tan skin that is easily peeled with a potato peeler. Our strain has been selected for uniformity of size, shape and yields. Excellent keeper if cured properly. Stores well • Vining • Uniform, 4-5 lb fruits. (Cucurbita moschata) Days to maturity: 105 days " (from High Mowing Seeds)

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Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo 'Baby Boo')
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ornamental
100 dtm; palm-size white mini pumpkins; for pure white color, harvest prior to full maturity (turns yellow when fully ripe).
2022: Jung

Male flower on young plant

Summer Squash (Cucurbita pepo 'Golden Zucchini')
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Bush
2015: Shum (2014)
2016: Ptree; started seeds indoors on 5/8/16.
2022: SSE
"Fruits are medium-long, slender and cylindrical in shape. Bright golden color and a delicious, distinctive zucchini flavor. Fruits are best when 6 to 8" long. Days to Maturity: 54 days

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Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo 'Lady Godiva')
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2016: Scheepers Seeds; started seeds indoors on 5/8/16
naked seeds; 4-8 lbs, orange and green striped, 12-15 fruits/plant; each pumpkin contains about a pound of seeds.

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Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo 'Small Sugar')
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Vining
2015: Burp
2016: Not growing this year.
"(95 days) Sometimes called New England Pie Pumpkin
The long time favorite and standard for pies. None grows any sweeter. Fruits small, 6-8 lbs; round, flattened at the ends and a good keeper. Skin is deep orange, smooth but plainly ribbed. Flesh is thick, deep yellow, fine grained and has a delicious sugar flavor."

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Winter Squash (Cucurbita pepo 'Sweet Dumpling')
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Vining
2015: PSS (NOTE: the seeds I had grew fruits in the same shape, but solid dark green in color; will use commercial seed if I grow again)
“90 days One of the sweetest of all! The small flattened ribbed 1 lb. fruit has a white skin with green stripes. The sweet, tender orange flesh makes this variety the favorite of many.” “Small, 4" diameter, teacup-shaped fruits average 3/4-1 lb. It has the ivory color and dark green stripes of Delicata, but in a round, flat-topped shape and dainty, single-serving size. Very sweet, tender orange flesh. Suitable for stuffing. Medium length vines. Avg. yield: 8-10 fruits/plant.”

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Carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus 'Tendersweet')
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2014: Ptree

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Carrot (Daucus carota var. sativus 'Chantenay Red Cored')
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2015: PSS

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Carrot (Daucus carota var. sativus 'Danvers Half Long')
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75 days to maturity
2014: LSC
2015: LSC (2014)

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Carrot (Daucus carota var. sativus 'Nantes')
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72 days to maturity
Source: Ptree

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Narrow-leaf Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)
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perennial
2015: Park
medicinal herb; native to MN
1-2' tall.

Purple Coneflower

Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
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ornamental
perennial
2015: saved seeds

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Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
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ornamental
2015 PSS