35 Sweet TATUME SQUASH Cucurbita Pepo Calabash Calabacita Mexican Zucchini Seeds

DESCRIPTION:

NAME: Tatume Squash

OTHER COMMON NAMES: Tatuma / Calabacita / Calabash / Mexican Zucchini

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Cucurbita Pepo

COLOR: Green Striped – Yellow Skin / White Flesh

PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost

HARVEST: 45 Days

HARDINESS ZONE: Annual

PLANT HEIGHT: 10 – 12″

PLANT SPACING: 2 – 3 plants per hill with hills spaced 3 – 4′

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average

QUANTITY: 35 Seeds

OTHER: Tatume is a vining heirloom Squash from Mexico that is still very popular today & used in countless dishes. Tatume Squash plants tolerate heat well & are very prolific. Tatume can be grown as a summer or winter squash. For a tender-skinned summer squash, harvest the fruit at 45 days when it’s baseball size. For winter squash, let them keep growing until they reach soccer ball size, & harvest them as a hard shelled as a winter squash. Tatume is sweeter than the sweetest zucchini!

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Photo Credits: 1 By Genet, CC BY-SA 3.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=18681963
6 By Glenn – Flickr TatumeSquash-0854, CC BY-SA 2.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=28892004