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Vegetable Planting Calendar
Squash, summer
- Plant squash in a well-drained area of the garden. Mulching will improve the yield and quality of squash.
- Use yellow sticky traps to monitor for cucumber beetles.
- Approximate planting per person per year, fresh, 2 to 3 hills
- 0.5 ounce of seeds for 100 feet of row
- Minimum row space if hand cultivated, 48 inches
- Minimum row space if using field implements, 60 inches
- 48 inches between plants in row
- Plant 0.5 inch deep
- 80 to 90 days from planting to eating stage
- 260 international units of vitamin A per 100 gram sample
- 11 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 gram sample
- Summer squash questions and answers
- Recommended zucchini varieties
- Revenue
Bush plant, medium green
- Dividend
Open bush plant, medium green
- Spineless Beauty
Medium green, good for late plantings
- Jaguar
Dark green, open bush plant
- Puma
Medium green
- Goldfinger
Golden zucchini
- Independence II
Good virus resistance
- Senator
Good producer
- Recommended yellow straightneck varieties
- Lemondrop L
- Multipik
Precocious yellow
- General Patton
Precocious yellow
- Mone
- Recommended yellow crookneck varieties
- Dixie
Lemon yellow, highly curved fruit
- Prelude II
Good resistance to powdery mildew and certain viruses
- Recommended patty pan types varieties
- Sunburst
Dark, lemon-yellow fruit
- Scallopini
Dark green fruit
- Peter Pan
Lime green fruit
- Recommended planting dates
- South Missouri
May 1 to 30
- Central Missouri
May 10 to 30
- North Missouri
May 15 to 30
Squash, winter
Rich in vitamins A
- Approximate planting per person per year, fresh, 3 to 5 hills
- 0.5 ounce of seeds for 100 feet of row
- Minimum row space if hand cultivated, 48 inches
- Minimum row space if using field implements, 60 inches
- 60 inches between plants in row
- Plant 0.5 inch deep
- 100 days from planting to eating stage
- 6,190 international units of vitamin A per 100 gram sample
- 7 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 gram sample
- Recommended acorn varieties
- Table Ace
- Seneca Autumn Queen
- Taybelle
- Table Queen
- Mesa Queen
- Recommended butternut varieties
- Butternut Supreme
- Nicklow's Delight
- Zenith
- Waltham
- Early Butternut
- Butterboy
- Recommended buttercup varieties
- Buttercup Burgess
- Autumn Cup
- Recommended hubbard varieties
- Recommended spaghetti varieties
- Vegetable Spaghetti
- Tivoli
- Recommended planting dates
- South Missouri
May 1 to 30
- Central Missouri
May 10 to 30
- North Missouri
May 15 to 30
G6201, revised April 2000
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