7 Squash And Cucumber Cultivars To Consider
Vegetable seed companies are upping their game in creating selections with better color, desired shape, enhanced flavor, and increased disease tolerance.
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Diamondback -- SeedWay
'Diamondback' is a productive slicer that yields consistent quality fruit color and length throughout extended picks. 'Diamondback' has Target Leaf Spot as well as WMV and ZYMV resistance.
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Dominator -- Siegers Seed Co.
'Dominator' is dark green with exceptional size and shape. It is dependable and widely adapted to all growing areas. It has outstanding quality, consistent production, and high yields. It will dominate the market because it is that good.
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Max Pack -- Siegers Seed Co.
This pickling variety will maximize your yield potential with strong, multivirus-resistant vines. It has excellent dark color, uniform size, and classy appearance. It provides a very high pack-out.
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Mongoose -- Siegers Seed Co.
'Mongoose' produces tremendous quality fruit with uniform size and shape. Fruit have dark-green color, excellent shipping ability, and high yields. It has a multivirus resistant disease package. The strong vines are healthy and productive when other varieties succumb to virus pressures. 'Mongoose' = Snake Killer.
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Perfect 10 -- Clifton Seed
This exclusive new gynoecious variety has a strong, vigorous plant with very consistent performance. The attractive dark-green fruit is early maturing (55 to 60 days) and uniform with an average fruit length of 8 ¼ to 8 ½ inches. An impressive disease resistance package tops off the benefits of this exciting variety.
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Respect -- Clifton Seed
Earliness and productivity for high-quality, dark green zucchini of medium length make 'Respect' a sure winner. Its vigorous, open-plant habit also makes for easy harvest. Respect has intermediate resistance to powdery mildew and papaya ringspot virus as well as watermelon mosaic and zucchini yellows.
For sale in FL, GA, SC, NC, TN, AL, MS, and VA only.
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Spineless King -- SeedWay
'Spineless King' is a Seedway favorite with its spineless plant and medium-dark colored fruit. The refined fruit easily meets expectations for quality and color in eastern markets. It has resistance to Powdery mildew, WMV, and ZYMV.
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Diamondback -- SeedWay
Dominator -- Siegers Seed Co.
Max Pack -- Siegers Seed Co.
Mongoose -- Siegers Seed Co.
Perfect 10 -- Clifton Seed
Respect -- Clifton Seed
Spineless King -- SeedWay
Click through the slideshow above to view several of the latest cucumber and squash varieties available.
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Paul Rusnak is the Senior Online Editor of American Vegetable Grower, American Fruit Grower, and Greenhouse Grower magazines, all Meister Media Worldwide brands. He is based in Northeast Florida. See all author stories here.