squash and pumpkins Growing Guides

Squash & Pumpkins Growing Guides

Squash and pumpkins include a wide range of productive garden crops, from summer squash and zucchini to winter squash and pumpkins. Varieties can differ considerably in plant size, fruit characteristics, days to maturity, and intended use, so having growing information for individual varieties can be especially useful when planning your garden.

The squash and pumpkin growing guides below are focused on helping gardeners successfully grow the individual crops listed here. Explore the guides for information about planting, soil preparation, sunlight, spacing, watering, feeding, pollination, plant care, common problems, and harvesting. Whether you are growing zucchini for frequent summer harvests, winter squash for storage, or pumpkins for cooking and decoration, these guides can help you understand what the plants need throughout the growing season.

Acorn squash	Ambassador zucchini	Ambercup squash
Amish Pie pumpkin	Astia zucchini	Atlantic Giant pumpkin
Atlas Butternut squash	Australian Butter pumpkin	Autumn Cup squash
Autumn Glow squash	Autumn Gold pumpkin	Baby Bear pumpkin
Baby Boo pumpkin	Baby Pam pumpkin	Bennings Green Tint squash
Big Max pumpkin	Big Moon pumpkin	Black Beauty squash
Black Beauty zucchini	Black Forest zucchini	Black Futsu squash
Blue Doll pumpkin	Blue Hubbard squash	Bonbon squash
Boston Marrow squash	Burgess Buttercup squash	Burpees Butterbush squash
Bush Delicata squash	Butterbush squash	Buttercup squash
Butterkin squash	Butternut squash	Carnival Acorn squash
Carnival squash	Caserta zucchini	Casperita pumpkin
Cheese pumpkin	Cinderella pumpkin	Cocozelle zucchini
Connecticut Field pumpkin	Costata Romanesco zucchini	Cotton Candy pumpkin
Crookneck squash	Crown Prince squash	Crown Pumpkin
Custard White squash	Custard Yellow squash	Dark Star zucchini
Delicata squash	Dickinson pumpkin	Dickinson squash
Dills Atlantic Giant pumpkin	Dunja zucchini	Early Butternut squash
Early Summer squash	Early White Bush squash	Ebony Acorn squash
Eight Ball zucchini	Emerald Delight zucchini	Fairytale pumpkin
Festival squash	Field pumpkin	Field squash
Flying Saucer squash	Fordhook zucchini	Galeux dEysines pumpkin
Gete Okosomin squash	Giant Pumpkin	Gold Rush zucchini
Golden Acorn squash	Golden Glory zucchini	Golden Hubbard squash
Golden Nugget squash	Golden scallop squash	Golden zucchini
Goldilocks squash	Greek Sweet Red squash	Green Kuri squash
Green Machine zucchini	Green scallop squash	Green Tint squash
Grey zucchini	Guatemalan Blue squash	Harlequin Acorn squash
Harlequin squash	Harvest Moon pumpkin	Hasta La Pasta squash
Honey Bear squash	Honey Boat Delicata squash	Honeynut squash
Howden Biggie pumpkin	Howden pumpkin	Hubbard squash
Hulless pumpkin	Hunter Butternut squash	Jack Be Little pumpkin
Jack o lantern pumpkin	Jackpot zucchini	Jarrahdale pumpkin
Kabocha squash	Kakai pumpkin	Knucklehead pumpkin
Lady Godiva pumpkin	Lakota squash	Lebanese White Bush squash
Lebanese zucchini	Long Island Cheese pumpkin	Long Pie pumpkin
Lumina pumpkin	Magda zucchini	Mammoth Gold pumpkin
Marina di Chioggia squash	Marrow squash	Miniature Orange pumpkin
Miniature pumpkin	Miniature White pumpkin	Moonshine pumpkin
Musquée de Provence pumpkin	Musquée de Provence squash	Naked Bear pumpkin
New England Cheese pumpkin	New England Pie pumpkin	One Ball zucchini
One Too Many pumpkin	Opo squash	Opo squash shoots
Orange Smoothie pumpkin	Orangetti squash	Partenon zucchini
Pennsylvania Crookneck pumpkin	Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck squash	Pepo pumpkin
Peter Pan squash	Pie pumpkin	Pink Banana squash
Ponca Butternut squash	Porcelain Doll pumpkin	Prizewinner pumpkin
Pumpkin	Pumpkin blossom	Pumpkin greens
Pumpkin leaves	Queensland Blue pumpkin	Queensland Blue squash
Raven zucchini	Red Kuri squash	Red Warty Thing squash
Rouge Vif dEtampes pumpkin	Round zucchini	Royal Acorn squash
Scallop squash	Scallopini squash	Seminole pumpkin
Shishigatani squash	Small Sugar pumpkin	Small Wonder spaghetti squash
Spaghetti squash	Spineless Beauty zucchini	Squash
Squash blossom	Squash greens	Squash leaves
Starship squash	Straightneck squash	Stripetti squash
Styrian pumpkin	Sugar Dumpling squash	Sugar Pie pumpkin
Sugar pumpkin	Sugar Treat pumpkin	Sugaretti squash
Summer squash	Sunburst squash	Sunshine Kabocha squash
Sunstripe zucchini	Sure Thing zucchini	Sweet Dumpling pumpkin
Sweet Dumpling squash	Sweet Mama squash	Sweet Meat squash
Sweet Potato pumpkin	Sweet Reba squash	Table Ace squash
Table King squash	Table Queen squash	Tahitian Melon squash
Tatume squash	Tennessee sweet potato squash	Thelma Sanders squash
Tivoli spaghetti squash	Triamble squash	Trombetta squash
Trombocino squash	Tromboncino squash	Turban squash
Turks Turban pumpkin	Turks Turban squash	Ultra Butternut squash
Valenciano pumpkin	Vegetable spaghetti squash	Waltham Butternut squash
Warty Goblin pumpkin	Wee B Little pumpkin	White Bush scallop squash
White Cushaw pumpkin	White scallop squash	Winter Luxury pumpkin
Winter squash	Winter Sweet squash	Yellow Bush scallop squash
Yellow Crookneck squash	Yellow squash	Yellow zucchini
Yellowfin zucchini	Zephyr squash	Zucchini
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