Corn & Cucurbitaceae

Black Beauty Zucchini produces large, cylindrical, elongated, dark-skinned fruits, around 15-20cm long. Creme-white, creamy, and tender flesh. Bush-variety around 60cm high and 90cm wide. From 1931. 50D. Cucurbita pepo. 6seeds/pack

Blue Ballet produces drop-shaped to round-ish, mid-sized pumpkins with a powdery, grey-blue color. Around 1-3kg per fruit. Yellow-ish, flavorful, and stingless flesh. Stores very well after harvest. Cucurbita maxima. 5seeds/pack

Bottle Gourd, a traditional bottle-shaped gourd. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Produces bottle-shaped fruits up to 30cm long. Young fruits can be cooked and eaten like squash. Has been grown for a very long time, not primarily for food, but for containers. Fully ripe fruits get hollow and hard as wood. Can be used as bottles for water or containers, musical instruments, lamps, and more. Lagenaria siceraria. 10seeds/pack

Butternut - ‘Anquito Butternut’ produces elongated, bottle-shaped, orange-brown fruits, around 1,5-2kg each. Creamy, sweet, orange flesh. Early variety. Cucurbita moschata. 10seeds/pack

Calabaza del Mellah is a gourd from The Neighborhood of Mellah in Marrakesh, Morocco. It grows with very long, climbing vines, 300cm or more. The leaves are covered with fine hair. Drought hardy and heat tolerant. Produce very large fruits/gourds, around 100cm long and about 15cm wide in diameter. Young, green, immature fruits can be harvested and used as squash. If the fruits are left to grow to the final size, and then dry they become very hard. Can then be used as containers, water bottles, floats, lamps, decoration, etc. 10seeds/pack

Carbassa d´Aigua Gourd is a bottle gourd from the village of Vilanova de Bellpuig in Catalonia, Spain. Produces large bottle-shaped fruits with a long, and sometimes bent neck. Small, immature fruits can be eaten as squash. Fully mature fruits can be dried and then become very hard. When emptied of seeds, it can be used as a container. It was traditionally used to carry water to the plot or to store water at home. Climbing to more than 200-250cm. Lagenaria siceraria. 10seeds/pack