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FREE: Heirloom Green-Striped Cushaw Melon - 10 seeds

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The listing, Heirloom Green-Striped Cushaw Melon - 10 seeds has ended.

Cushaw melon, a/k/a Tennessee sweet potato squash.

These seeds are from a cushaw melon/squash from a fellow Zone 5 gardener. This one was over 10 pounds, and it wasn't the biggest in the yard! This is a winter squash that can be stored as long a four months. The plant tolerates high heat and is resistant to the squash vine borer. The flesh can be substituted for pumpkin and sweet potatoes in pies. It makes an awesome pie!

These are pictures of the same squash from the yard it was grown in to one of the pies that I baked with the flesh.

Questions & Comments

Fanned you...and bidding...this will be a new thing to grow for me and I don't know how to cook them. Could you include your pie recipe on making it ?

Oct 30th, 2011 at 1:21:34 PM PDT by

Come on, Folks. At least make it worth the stamp it will cost to mail these out. Tell you what. Once the big hits 50 I'll add 5 more seeds. If it hits 75 I'll make it 20. Imagine your yard filled with cushaws and your neighbor's yard filled with cushaws. Consider being a gurilla gardener. Just picture dropping a few seeds in a vacant lot in the early summer and having everybody wondering what the heck that is. Come on...bid, bid, bid.

Oct 29th, 2011 at 6:36:06 AM PDT by

I'm fanning you back. The lady who grew them said she boiled hers and put a little butter and brown sugar on them and ate it like that. I seasoned my pie mix like I would a sweet potato pie. When I make a pie I like to bake the sweet potato (that's how I did the cushaw) instead of boiling it and I used the food processor to make things go quicker. If you Google Ark of Taste: Green-striped Cushaw they've got the best info IMHO.

Oct 30th, 2011 at 2:51:41 PM PDT by

Thank you!!!

Oct 30th, 2011 at 6:55:37 PM PDT by

You're very welcome.

Oct 30th, 2011 at 9:43:12 PM PDT by

Would you do free shipping to Canada? This would cost only about 40 cents more for first class standard :)

Oct 30th, 2011 at 9:34:39 PM PDT by

I don't have a problem with doing that.

Oct 31st, 2011 at 4:45:33 AM PDT by

Because I want to spread my seed (figuratively speaking) in as many places as I can, I'm going to throw in at least ten seeds from my Red Brandywine tomato that weighed 1 lb 5 oz and at least ten of the seeds from my Principe Borghese tomatoes, both heirlooms. The Brandywines are the best tasting tomatoes I've ever eaten, and the Principe Borghese are reputed to be "rare" and great for dryiing. I made paste with mine and it came out better than I expected. Happy Bidding!!

Nov 1st, 2011 at 5:00:37 PM PDT by

Heirloom Green-Striped Cushaw Melon - 10 seeds is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category