Vegetable Description: The Pink Banana squash is a great winter keeper! This popular "jumbo" squash used for both canning and baking produces long cylindrical fruit that can weight up to 70 pounds! Matures in about 105-115 days. Thin brittle skin turns pink-orange at maturity. Yellow-orange flesh is sweet, thick, firm and dry and great for use in pies! Average water needs. Attractive to bees, butterflies, and/or birds.

Vegetable Botanical Name: Cucurbita maxima

Other Common Names: Jumbo Pink Banana

Vegetable Duration: Annual

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 110

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 100

Vegetable Height: 18” to 24”

Vegetable Spacing: 6' to 8'

Vegetable Planting: Direct sow outside after danger of last frost. Plant in hills of 2-3 plants per hill at 6' to 8' apart, and 1“ below soil surface.

Vegetable Seed Saving: Allow squash to ripen on plants; then collect seeds. Clean and dry the seeds before storage in cool dry conditions.