Sundream

Cucurbita Maxima (90 days)

Good ideas have to start somewhere…this project started as a taste bud love affair with the excellent variety Sunshine (F1), a delicious orange skinned squash developed by Rob Johnston. Fruits loosely resemble the popular open pollinated variety, Red Kuri, with deep orange skin and thick orange flesh. We have been culturing this strain into a stable open pollinated variety for the since 2014.  We love the flavor of this productive and tasty squash.  Selected for years for storage quality. This heirloom of tomorrow in the making is a Siskiyou Seeds farm original bred by Don Tipping

An interesting agronomic note on this variety and other cucurbit seeds that we grow here at Siskiyou Seeds is that we have not used floating row covers to protect young plants from cucumber beetle damage (which is standard practice on nearly all small farms in our area). Our aim is to breed for and select for plants that are naturally resistant to cucumber beetles and a decade into doing this it seems to be working!

 Open Seed Source Initiative pledged & Siskiyou Select Original

Packet (5 g ≈ 30 seeds)

1 oz