Squash Varieties

At Quinn farm, we offer multiple varieties of squash. They usually start around the third week in September and they can last until the first frost. You can either go and pick them yourself, or you could purchase them in our Farm Shop.

Acorn

The acorn squash has a dark green skin, pale golden flesh that has a aromatic and sweet flavour with a light nuttiness that is enhanced by roasting. It’s a good source of vitamin C, iron, fiber and thiamine. Look for squash that has a small orange patch, which indicates maturity (too much orange means it’s overripe).

Ambercup

The Ambercup has bright orange flesh and has a dry sweet taste. It is good for cooking as the water content can be controlled. Peel it, cube the flesh, roast it, and serve like cut-up sweet potatoes. Has an extraordinarily long storage life.

Autumn cup

A hybrid semi-bush Buttercup type dark green squash. Rich flavored flesh and high yields. 
Flesh is yellow/orange meat that is stringless, dry, and sweet.

Buttercup

This squash has a dark green skin, sometime accented with lighter shades. It has a sweet and creamy orange flesh. This squash is much sweeter than other winter varieties. Buttercup Squash can be baked, mashed, pureed, steamed, simmered, or stuffed and can replace Sweet Potatoes in most recipes.

Butternut

Beige colored and shaped like a vase or a bell. This is a more watery squash and tastes somewhat similar to sweet potatoes. It has a bulbous end and pale, creamy skin, with a choice, fine-textured, deep-orange flesh with a sweet, nutty flavor.

Carnival

Cream colored with orange spots or pale green with dark green spots in vertical stripes. Carnival Squash have hard, thick skins and only the flesh is eaten. It is sometimes labeled as a type of acorn squash.
The delicious yellow meat is reminiscent of sweet potatoes and butternut squash and can be baked or steamed then combined with butter and fresh herbs. Also great in soups.

Delicata

This is one of the tastier winter squashes, with creamy pulp that tastes a bit like corn and sweet potatoes. It is small, and has an oblong shape, and has lemon-coloured skin with green or orange stripes. Size may range from 5 to 10 inches in length. The squash can be baked or steamed. The thin skin is also edible.

Futsu

Unique look. Delicate yellow orange flesh. Firm, sweet and fragrant. Good for soups, purees, soufflés or pies. 

Galeuse d'Eysine

Thick, orange yellow, flavourful flesh. Let the fruit dry completely before harvesting.

Grey Ghost

This squash is pale green, almost white. It has really hard skin, which means they are great for storage. The flesh is  silky smooth, sweet and flavorful.

Gooseneck

 It is most often used as a summer squash, and is characterized by its bumpy yellow skin and sweet yellow flesh, as well as its distinctive curved stem-end or "crooked neck".

Hubbard

The extra-hard skins make them one of the best keeping winter squashes. These are very large and irregularly shaped, with a skin that is quite "warted" and irregular.
The yellow flesh of these tends to be very moist and longer cooking times in the oven are needed. They are generally peeled and boiled, cut up and roasted, or cut small and steamed or sautéed. It's perfect for pies.

Lady Godiva

Light orange flesh for soups or ratatouille. Produces skinless seeds for oil extraction.

Lakota

Traditional squash of the Lakota Indian tribe. Delicate hazelnut taste. Yellow-orange flesh.

Marina di Chioggia

Firm, red and sweet flesh. In addition to being decorative, this squash can be used to make raviolis and gnocchis.

Spaghetti

A small, watermelon-shaped variety, ranges in size from 2 to 5 pounds or more. It has a golden-yellow, oval rind and a mild, nut-like flavor.
When cooked, the flesh separates in strands that resemble spaghetti pasta.

Sweet Dumpling

This small, mildly sweet-tasting squash resembles a miniature pumpkin with its top pushed in. It has cream-colored skin with green specks.

Sweet mama

Orange flesh, and hard skin. Taste is sweet and delicious. 

Tancheese

Fragrant red orange flesh with a slight hazelnut taste.

Triamble

Good tasting, orange yellow flesh. Very decorative. Good storage capacity.

Turban (or Turkish Turban)

Named for its shape. Turban Squash has colors that vary from bright orange, to green or white. It has golden-yellow flesh and its taste is reminiscent to hazelnut

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